Ubiquitous Semantic Applications

Timofey Ermilov, Ali Khalili, Sören Auer
2014 International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)  
Recently practical approaches for development of ubiquitous semantic applications have made quite some progress. In particular in the area of the ubiquitous access to the semantic data we recently observed a large number of approaches, systems and applications being described in the literature. With this survey we aim to provide an overview on the rapidly emerging field of Ubiquitous Semantic Applications (UbiSA). We conducted a systematic literature review comprising a thorough analysis of 48
more » ... rimary studies out of 172 initially retrieved papers. We obtained a comprehensive set of quality attributes for UbiSA together with corresponding application features suggested for their realization. The quality attributes include aspects such as mobility, usability, heterogeneity, collaboration, customizability and evolvability. The primary studies were surveyed in the light of these quality attributes and we performed a thorough analysis of six ubiquitous semantic applications, six frameworks for UbiSA, three UbiSA specific ontologies, six ubiquitous semantic systems and nine general approaches. The proposed quality attributes facilitate the evaluation of existing approaches and the development of novel, more effective and intuitive UbiSA.
doi:10.4018/ijswis.2014010103 fatcat:vxeybxs3vzen7mhacurseu7qwu