Ontology-based KP development for Smart-M3 applications

Smart-M3 is an open-source platform that implements the smart space concept and maintains its content with ontologica! representation. SmartSlog is a tool for developing Smart-M3 knowledge processors (KPs) in terms of OWL classes, properties, and individuals. This paper describes new schemes of KP generating process and ways for improving KP development based on ontologies integration and general-properties. New generating schemes use Protege and ontologies meta-data. Protege is an ontology editor that is used to build the meta-data. The meta-data is used with SmartSlog generator as an extra information for KP generation. The ontology integration allows KP to work with knowledge represented by several ontologies in the smart spaces. The integration could be full (already supported by by SmartSlog) or partial (added to SmartSlog based on new generation schemes) The partial integration allows to choose necessary entities from source ontologies. General-property allows to use a set of properties (slave-properties) as one property. Handlers are used with the general-property. Each handler define a logic of operations with slave-properties. The general-property approach now is under development.