TY - CHAP

T1 - Representation of Integration Profiles Using an Ontology

AU - Welge, Ralph

AU - Busch, Björn-Helge

AU - Kabitzsch, Klaus

AU - Laurila-Epe, Janina

AU - Heusinger, Stefan

AU - Lipprandt, Myriam

AU - Eichelberg, Marco

AU - Eichenberg, Elke

AU - Engelien, Heike

AU - Gök, Murat

AU - Moritz, Guido

AU - Hein, Andreas

N1 - Conference code: 6

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - The Integration and commissioning of AAL systems are time consuming and complicated. The lack of interoperability of available components for Ambient Assisted Living has to be considered as an obstacle for innovative SMEs. In order to ease integration and commissioning of systems knowledge based methods should be taken into account to enable innovative characteristics of AAL systems such as design automation, self-configuration and self-management. Hence, semantic technologies are suitable instruments which offer the capability for mastering the problems of interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed systems. As an important prerequisite for the emergence of knowledge-based assistance functions a standard for unambiguous representation of AAL-relevant knowledge has to be developed. In this paper, the development of an AAL-ontology is proposed as a formal basis for knowledge-based system functions. A prototype of an AAL specific ontology engineering process is presented through the modeling example of a formal representation of a sensor block which is part of an AAL-Integration Profile proposed by the RAALI consortium.

AB - The Integration and commissioning of AAL systems are time consuming and complicated. The lack of interoperability of available components for Ambient Assisted Living has to be considered as an obstacle for innovative SMEs. In order to ease integration and commissioning of systems knowledge based methods should be taken into account to enable innovative characteristics of AAL systems such as design automation, self-configuration and self-management. Hence, semantic technologies are suitable instruments which offer the capability for mastering the problems of interoperability of heterogeneous and distributed systems. As an important prerequisite for the emergence of knowledge-based assistance functions a standard for unambiguous representation of AAL-relevant knowledge has to be developed. In this paper, the development of an AAL-ontology is proposed as a formal basis for knowledge-based system functions. A prototype of an AAL specific ontology engineering process is presented through the modeling example of a formal representation of a sensor block which is part of an AAL-Integration Profile proposed by the RAALI consortium.

KW - Informatics

KW - Unify Modeling Language

KW - Function Block

KW - Open Geospatial Consortium

KW - Basic Ontology

KW - Ontology Module

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_13

DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_13

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-642-37987-1

T3 - Advanced Technologies and Societal Change

SP - 195

EP - 212

BT - Ambient Assisted Living

A2 - Wichert, Reiner

A2 - Klausing, Helmut

PB - Springer

T2 - 6. AAL-Kongress

Y2 - 22 January 2013 through 23 January 2013

ER -