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Semantic-Based RFID Data Management

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Traditional Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) applications have been focused on replacing bar codes in supply chain management. Leveraging a ubiquitous computing architecture, the chapter presents a framework allowing both quick decentralized on-line item discovery and centralized off-line massive business logic analysis, according to needs and requirements of supply chain actors. A semantic-based environment, where tagged objects become resources exposing to an RFID reader not a trivial identification code but a semantic annotation, enables tagged objects to describe themselves on the fly without depending on a centralized infrastructure. On the other hand, facing on data management issues, a proposal is formulated for an effective off-line multidimensional analysis of huge amounts of RFID data generated and stored along the supply chain.

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Notes

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    RDF Primer, W3C Recommendation, February 10th 2004, available at http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/.

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    OWL Web Ontology Language, W3C Recommendation, February 10th 2004, available at http://www.w3.org/TR/owlfeatures/.

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    SPARQL Query Language for RDF, W3C Recommendation 15 January 2008, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

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    Notice that \(\exists R\) is equivalent to \((\ensuremath{\ge} 1 R)\)

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    We write \((\ensuremath{=} n\ R)\) for \((\ensuremath{\ge} n\ R \ensuremath{\sqcap} \le n\ R)\)

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    Roberto De Virgilio & Riccardo Torlone

  2. Politecnico di Bari, Via Re David 200, Bari, BA, I-70125, Italy

    Eugenio Di Sciascio, Michele Ruta & Floriano Scioscia

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    Quan Z. Sheng

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De Virgilio, R., Di Sciascio, E., Ruta, M., Scioscia, F., Torlone, R. (2011). Semantic-Based RFID Data Management. In: Ranasinghe, D., Sheng, Q., Zeadally, S. (eds) Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03462-6_6

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