Sergey Boldyrev

Anonymous Agent Coordination in Smart Spaces: State-of-the-Art

Development of new technologies brings people new possibilities such as smart spaces. Smart spaces can provide better user experience by allowing a user to connect new devices flexibly and to access all the information in the multi device system from any of the devices. The paper describes work-in-progress performed under a joint project of SPIIRAS and Nokia. The project is aimed at the analysis of existing anonymous agent coordination languages and adaptation of them to coordination of smart space devices.

On-the-fly ontology matching in smart spaces: a multi-model approach

Proper functioning of smart spaces demands semantic interoperability between knowledge processors connected to it. As a consequence it is required to develop models that would enable knowledge processors to translate on-the-fly between the internal and smart space ontologies. This paper presents the developed multi-model approach to the above problem, where the major elements of the selected approach are described in detail.

Distributed Architecture of a Professional Social Network on Top of M3 Smart Space Solution Made in PCs and Mobile Devices Friendly Manner

The paper proposes a social network solution that has been designed to fit equally well for use at mobile devices, PCs and even other types of consumer electronics. This solution is targeted to become a core element of the personal knowledge space and the design has be been done on top of M3 smart space. The result solution will be able to pre- and post-process the collected information and perform efficient reasoning over and organization of the data. Another key advantage of the proposed social network is that it is primary targeted to support professional social communications within a geo-distributed teams working on the same project. For that the solution proposes a flexible and easily extendable set of additional services, such as a variety of conference call and virtual meeting services with logging service, sharable whiteboard, automatic maintenance of action point lists and calendars and so on. As a result the service provides users with completely new experience.

Network and content aware information management

The presented approach addresses the problem of query and persistent query (subscription) resolution, taking into consideration distribution across multi-domains, network infrastructure and content management. This approach is particularly suitable for information-centric and cloud computing applications based around a mobile-device infrastructure.

Efficient distributed information management in smart spaces

Development of new technologies brings people new possibilities such as smart spaces. Smart spaces can provide better user experience by allowing a user to connect new devices flexibly and to access all the information in the multi device system from any of the devices. However, this also raises new challenges. The paper considers the problem of efficient distributed information sharing in smart spaces. Models for information distribution are presented together with a simulation framework.

Multimedia services on top of M3 smart spaces

Numerous advances in the area of ubiquitous computing resulted in appearance of such paradigms as Smart Spaces, where a number of devices can use a shared view of resources and services. Nowadays we observing emerge of the smart space technologies, which are truly mobile and allowing equally efficient design of applications for the broad range of devices. An example of such smart spaces platform is Smart-M3, which has been developed by Nokia in cooperation with the SOFIA program partners. The paper presents an approach for applying Smart-M3 smart space solution for multimedia service networks. This enables a convenient and seamless access to the distributed multimedia content from the mobile devices, PCs and other types of user devices. A scenario of multimedia content sharing between various companies and their customers is presented as one of the possible applications of the proposed solution and the corresponding demo implementation is developed.

Context-Aware SmartSpace: Reference Model

Appearance of Smartspaces where a number of devices can use a shared view of resources and services characterize modern usage of devices. The paper presents a reference model enabling communication between the devices of a smartspace and efficient information usage. The model is based on the application of such technologies as profiling and context management.

Development of the on-the-fly ontology matching model for smart spaces

Semantic interoperability of the agents connected to smart spaces is the key requirement for proper functioning of the environment. It requires model enabling agents (hereafter knowledge processors) to perform on-the-fly translation and interpretation between the internal ontology and smart space ontology. The paper discusses our work on development of a new solution for ontology matching. In particular the study is focused on practical study of the capabilities of the delivered ontology matching solution on top of the Smart-M3 Open Source platform.

Integration and uses of RF Memory Tags with Smart Space Semantic Web middleware

As devices become more ubiquitous and information more pervasive, technologies such as semantic Web and space-based computing come to the fore as a platform for user-interaction with their environment. Integrating technologies such as advanced RF memory tag with mobile devices and combining this with computation platforms such as those supporting semantic Web principles provides innovative and novel applications for the user. In a way, information stored in smart spaces on RF memory tags could even create a sub-Internet of Things where users are the main information transport mechanism rather than the Internet.

Principles of ontology matching, translation and interpretation in smart spaces

Semantic interoperability of the agents connected to smart spaces is the key requirement for proper functioning of the environment. Consequently it requires model that enables agents (hereafter knowledge processors) to perform on-the-fly translation and interpretation between the internal ontology and smart space ontology. The paper provides state of the art overview and discusses a new solution for ontology matching, translation and interpretation. In particular the study is focus on practical study of the capabilities of the delivered ontology matching solution on top of the Smart-M3 Open Source platform.