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Transferring Remote Ontologies to the Edge of Internet of Things Systems

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Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing (GPC 2017)

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Abstract

Edge computing paradigm allows computation to be moved from the central high powered Cloud or data center to the edge of the network. This paradigm often enables more efficient data processing near its source and sends only the data and knowledge that have value over the network. Our study focuses on performing semantic reasoning at the edge computing devices, which requires transferring ontologies to the edge devices. This paper presents different representations for transferring Web Ontology language (OWL) version 2 ontologies to the edge. We evaluate different representations in an experimental IoT system with edge nodes and compare lengths of different syntaxes and their computation effort of building models in Cloud and edge computing devices in terms of processing time.

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The first author would like to thank Jorma Ollila Grant of Nokia foundation for funding this research.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Xiang Su, Pingjiang Li & Jukka Riekki

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Huber Flores

  3. Biomimetics and Intelligent Systems Group, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Xiaoli Liu

  4. State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

    Yuhong Li

  5. fortiss, An-Institut Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Christian Prehofer

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  1. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Man Ho Allen Au

  2. University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Arcangelo Castiglione

  3. University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

  4. University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

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  5. Providence University, Taichung City, Taiwan

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Example of SSN ontology with RDF/XML syntax:

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Example of SSN ontology with Turtle syntax:

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Example of SSN ontology with functional syntax:

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Example of SSN ontology with OWL/XML syntax:

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Example of SSN ontology with Manchester syntax:

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Example of SSN ontology with JSON-LD:

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Example of SSN ontology with EN Schema:

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Su, X. et al. (2017). Transferring Remote Ontologies to the Edge of Internet of Things Systems. In: Au, M., Castiglione, A., Choo, KK., Palmieri, F., Li, KC. (eds) Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing. GPC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57186-7_39

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