Semantic Discovery In The Web Of Things

While the number of things present in the Web grows, the ability of discovering such things in order to successfully interact with them becomes a challenge, mainly due to heterogeneity. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, an ontology-based approach to leverage web things discovery that is transparent to the syntax, protocols and formats used in things interfaces is described. Second, a semantic model for describing web things and how to extract and understand the relevant information for discovery is proposed.