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A Dynamic And Context-Aware Semantic Mediation Service For Discovering And Fusion Of Heterogeneous Sensor Data, Mohamed Bakillah, Steve H. L. Liang, Alexander Zipf, Mir Abolfazl Mostafavi

Journal of Spatial Information Science

Sensors play an increasingly critical role in capturing and distributing observations of phenomena in our environment. The vision of the semantic sensor web is to enable the interoperability of various applications that use sensor data provided by semantically heterogeneous sensor services. However, several challenges still need to be addressed to achieve this vision. More particularly, mechanisms that can support context-aware semantic mapping and that can adapt to the dynamic metadata of sensors are required. Semantic mapping for the sensor web is required to support sensor data fusion, sensor data discovery and retrieval, and automatic semantic annotation, to name only a …