Thiago Souto Mendes
2008In the era of ubiquitous computing, a new kind of application has been gaining increased attention from the academic community, the socalled Context-aware mobile applications. Context-aware computing requires context information representation mechanisms that facilitate this type of information processing within appropriate software infrastructures. One possible solution is to integrate Semantic Web technologies into the development of Context- aware applications through ontology modeling and implementation as an extension to the context informations management infrastructure. Such architecture should have a formal model and a context information representation standard, as well as semantic interoperability support between Context-aware applications and inference mechanisms based on the ontological model semantics. In this work we propose a distributed architecture model based on mobile devices and service oriented, capable of semantic annotation of service and user profiles. This enables a user to search for and execute semantic services, and also retrieve maps for service location discovery.