The theme of the workshop is the intersection of three major trends in today's computing:
The proposed workshop investigates how mobile computing can benefit from service-orientation and ontologies and vice verso. The vision is to extend the typically rather limited capabilities of mobile devices by using services offered by other devices, network providers or third parties. Adding ontologies to this scenario allows this extension to be transparent to the human user.
Today, computers are changing from big, grey, and noisy
things on our desks to small, portable, and evernetworked devices most of us
are carrying around. This new form of mobility imposes a shift in how we view
computers and the way we work with them. In developing countries like India
and China ‘Mobile Internet’ can become the only Internet a large
portion of population will get access to.
Services offer the possibility to overcome the limitations of
individual mobile devices by making functionality offered by others available
to them on an “as-needed” basis. Thus, using the service-oriented
computing paradigm in mobile environments will considerably enlarge the
variety of accessible applications and will enable new business opportunities
in the mobile space by delivering integrated functionalities across wireless
networks. Network hosted mobile services will allow mobile operators and
third party mobile services provider to extend their businesses by making
their network services available to a broader audience (e.g. developers,
service providers, etc.); device hosted service will allow great potential
for big innovations for applications and services that can be provided by
individual mobile device owners.
These mobile services offer functionalities and behaviors that can be
described, advertised, discovered, and composed by others. Eventually, they
will be able to interoperate even though they have not been designed to work
together. This type of interoperability is based on the ability to understand
other services and reason about their functionalities and behaviors when
necessary. In this respect, mobile services can benefit from marrying the
Semantic Web, which provides the infrastructure for the extensive usage of
distributed knowledge, to be deployed for modeling services and add meaning,
through ontologies, enabling lightweight discovery and composition of mobile
services. The ability to appropriately combine mobility and semantic grounded
data sharing has generated and is continuously triggering challenging
questions in several areas of computer science, engineering and
networking.
This workshop aims to tackle the research problems around methods, concepts,
models, languages and technologies that enable new opportunities in the
mobile space through adoption, usage, and integration of mobile services and
ontologies. Of particular interest are the methodologies and technologies
that would allow automatic tasks to be performed with respect to mobile
services and the use of ontologies in this context.
This proposed workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry
attendees addressing many of these issues, and promote and foster a greater
understanding of mobile service and ontologies and their potential in
enabling new business opportunities in the mobile space.
- Service-oriented architectures for mobile internet
services
- languages and methodologies for describing mobile Service-oriented
systems
- discovery and matchmaking of ontology based services in the context of
mobile service-oriented architectures
- adaptive selection of services in mobile serviceoriented architectures
- ontology management in mobile environments
- contracting and negotiation with ontology-based mobile services (service
level agreements)
- approaches to composition of ontology based services in the context of
mobile service-oriented systems
- invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and management of mobile
services
- interaction protocols and conversation models for mobile services-oriented
architectures
- ontology-based security and privacy issues in mobile service-oriented
systems
- applications of mobile service-oriented architectures
- analysis and design approaches for mobile service-oriented architectures
and services
- reasoning with mobile services
- ontology-based policies for mobile service-oriented architectures
- tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection, mediation, composition,
management, and monitoring of services in a mobile world
- mobile service development
These topics indicate the general focus of the workshop, however, related
contributions are welcome also.
Dr. Henry Tirri, Research Fellow, Head of System Research Centers, Nokia
Presentation Title: Mobile world 2015 and beyond
Abstract: Recent developments in mobile computing are continuing the trend that originated in mainframe computing and which lead to the current. Terms "pervasiveness" and "ubiquitous computing" are used to indicate the changing ecosystem, where mobile devices at the same time become more central and the computing more distributed (for example spreading to wireless sensors). This trend shows several aspects consistent in the evolution of computing including the increasing miniaturization of the computing units and an increasing emphasis of the role of communication between them - "networking". This will result in deep intertwining of the physical and digital worlds and provides "grounding" for the Internet and will have a profound effect on what we understand by networked computing. This fusion of the physical and digital worlds will extend also to nanoscale for sensing, computing and communicating. Future mobile systems perform computations at all levels from metamaterials to backbone networks relying heavily on "wireless grids" that connet different computing units loosely with each others. These large-scale systems are the basis for services in the global scale similar to the global access to information provided by the Internet and will introduce data management challenges far exceeding the ones we are currently facing with Web technology. The development of such systems will revolutionize for example traffic, media production, health-care and wellness, and social relationships. In this talk we are specifically interested in the engineering challenges of building, maintaining and programming future mobile (and pervasive) systems as well as some of the user scenarious that they enable.
Mannheim, Germany
The workshop is to be held in conjunction with The 8th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'07).