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Supporting semantic web technologies in the pervasive service ecosystems middleware

Paolo Contessi

Semantic Web technologies are strategic in order to fulfill the openness requirement of Self-Aware Pervasive Service Ecosys-tems. In fact they provide agents with the ability to cope with distributed data, using RDF to represent information, ontologies to describe relations between concepts from any domain (e.g. equivalence, specialization/extension, and so on) and reasoners to extract implicit knowledge. The aim of this thesis is to study these technologies and design an extension of a pervasive service ecosystems middleware ca-pable of exploiting semantic power, and deepening performance implications.

Mirko Viroli (Supervisor)
Danilo Pianini (Co-supervisors)

Main Goals

  1. Acquire knowledge on technologies to be exploited: RDF, SPARQL/SPARUL, OWL/RDFSchema, Desanti's LSA-space (done)
  2. Analysis and development of Ontologies support in SAPERE (done)
  3. Semantic Matching (on-going, delegated to Gabriele Manduchi)
  4. Platform performance profiling (done)
  5. Implementation of a Eco-laws->SPARQL/SPARUL statements translation (optional) (suspended, TR.WP1.2011.06 partially supported)

Activities

Detailed phases and sub-goals, which are concerned with the development of the thesis, will be weekly reported in the following.

  • Week 1 (11/01/2012 - 15/01/2012)
    • Orienteering and setup
    • Start working on Main Goal (1)
    • Revising process-algebras and operational semantics theory from LMC LM
  • Week 2 (16/01/2012 - 22/01/2012)
    • Studying Desanti's thesis
    • Analysing saperenode code, cloned from remote repository on BitBucket
    • Trying to determine basic interfaces and how to insert new features
    • Starting definition of a workflow
  • Week 3 (23/01/2012 - 29/01/2012)
    • Continuing from Week 2
    • Collecting main concepts from Semantic Web Technologies
  • Week 4 (30/01/2012 - 05/02/2012)
    • Continuing from Week 3
  • Week 5 (06/02/2012 - 12/02/2012)
    • Continuing from Week 3
    • Designing the extension of saperenode
  • Week 6 (13/02/2012 - 19/02/2012)
    • Continuing from previous weeks
    • Working on LSA model
  • Week 7 (05/03/2012 - 11/03/2012)
    • Forking SAPERE OSGi platform prototype (from UNIMORE)
  • Week 8 (12/03/2012 - 18/03/2012)
    • Formalizing RDF-based LSA model
  • Week 9 (19/03/2012 - 25/03/2012)
    • Providing first implementation of LSA-space and SAPERE (LSA) model
    • Test and validation
  • Week 10 (02/04/2012 - 08/04/2012)
    • Configuring and running integration tests
    • Integration with Ecolaws
  • Week 10 (09/04/2012 - 15/04/2012)
    • Redefining Ecolaw model, in order to fit with new requirements
  • Week 11 (16/04/2012 - 22/04/2012)
    • Continuing from previous week
    • Approaching to Ecolaw2SPARQL serialization
  • Week 12 (23/04/2012 - 29/04/2012)
    • Ecolaw2SPARQL serialization
    • Revisioning work against new requirements
  • Week 12 (30/04/2012 - 06/05/2012)
    • Fighting with Pellet + Jena integration in an OSGi context
    • Considering possible solution for new LSA specifications
    • Integrating developed LSA-space and models into the rest of the middleware
  • Week 13 (07/05/2012 - 13/05/2012)
    • Integrating developed LSA-space and models into the rest of the middleware
  • Week 14 (14/05/2012 - 20/05/2012)
    • Testing integration
    • Trying an Android porting
  • Week 15 (21/05/2012 - 27/05/2012)
    • Testing integration
    • Checking features support
    • Implementing Multi-Level LSA support
    • Testing the overall system against new requirements
    • Android porting suspended
  • Week 16 (28/05/2012 - 03/06/2012)
    • Defining a (micro-)benchmark scenario
    • Debugging
  • Week 17 (4/06/2012 - 10/06/2012)
    • SAPERE meeting in Reggio Emilia
    • Implementing (micro-)benchmarks
  • Week 18 (11/06/2012 - 17/06/2012)
    • Running (micro-)benchmarks and collecting results
    • Analysing results
    • Defining demo scenario
  • Week 19 (18/06/2012 - 24/06/2012)
    • Refining demo scenario
    • Implementing DIFFUSE support (relocator)
    • Defining demo scenario: Sensor+Aggregation+Diffusion
    • Trying to determine max throughput without ReactionManager starvation
  • Week 20 (25/06/2012 - 01/07/2012)
    • Continuing from Week 19
  • Week 21 (02/07/2012 - 08/07/2012)
    • Continuing from Week 20
    • Testing platform scalability
  • Week 22 (09/07/2012 - 15/07/2012)
    • Analyzing performance data
    • Correcting diffusion eco-law
    • Deploying release
  • Week 23 (16/07/2012 - 22/07/2012)
    • Writing thesis
  • Week 24 (23/07/2012 - 26/07/2012)
    • Completing subscription
    • Creating slideshow