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.
- architectures for mobile internet services
- languages for describing mobile services
- discovery and matchmaking of ontology based
mobile services
- adaptive selection of mobile services
- ontology management in mobile environments
- contracting and negotiation with ontology-based
mobile services (service level agreements)
- approaches to composition of ontology based
mobile services
- invocation, adaptive execution, monitoring, and
management of mobile services
- interaction protocols and conversation models
for mobile services
- ontology-based security and privacy issues in
mobile services
- mobile service applications
- analysis and design approaches for mobile
services
- reasoning with mobile services
- ontology-based policies for mobile services
- tools for discovery, matchmaking, selection,
mediation, composition, management, and
monitoring of mobile services
- mobile service development
- multi agent systems and mobile services
These topics indicate the general focus of the workshop, however, related contributions are welcome also.
Professor Riichiro Mizoguchi and Dr. Munehiko Sasajima
Presentation title: Mobile user behavior modeling for task-oriented navigation based on ontological engineering
Nara, Japan
The workshop is to be held in conjunction with The 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06).