Semantic Web Technologies for the Internet of Things: Interoperability and Enriched Service Provision

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is unanimously identified as one of the main technology enablers for the development of future intelligent environments. It is driving the digital transformation of many different domains (e.g., mobility, environment, industry, healthcare, etc.) of our everyday life. One of the key drivers for this hype towards the IoT is its applicability to a plethora of different application domains, such as smart cities, e-health, smart environments, smart homes, or Industry 4.0.

However, the IoT ecosystem is experiencing a lack of interoperability across the multiple competing platforms that are available. Consequently, service providers can only access vertical data silos that imply high costs and jeopardize their potential market solutions. It is necessary to transform the current situation with competing non-interoperable IoT platforms into a common ecosystem, which will enable the emergence of cross-platform, cross-standard, and cross-domain IoT services and applications.

Semantic technologies have recently gained significant support in a number of communities, in particular the IoT community. Since the value of IoT increases significantly with the availability of information from a wide variety of domains and there is a huge heterogeneity regarding IoT technologies on the lower levels, the semantic level is seen as a promising approach for achieving interoperability (i.e., semantic interoperability) to unify IoT device description, data, bring common interaction, data exploration, etc.

This Special Issue aims to present high-quality research and recent technology advances towards Semantic Web Technologies applied to the Internet of Things for favoring interoperable scenarios and the provision of enriched services. Relevant topics include all aspects of semantics and semantic web applied to IoT systems in any application domain; Web of Things architecture based on semantic modeling of IoT and IoT ontologies; security and data quality schemes enabled through semantics; applications and services utilizing an enriched understanding of situations described in a semantic manner by multi-tenant sources.

You are invited to submit original papers that present significant advances of the state of the art regarding Semantic Web Technologies for the Internet of Things, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Web of Things;
• Semantic modeling;
• Semantic reasoning aided by machine learning;
• Big Data integration in Semantic Web of Things;
• IoT ontologies;
• Optimization of the Semantic Web of Things;
• Service provision optimization through Semantic Web of Things;
• Standardization activities on Semantic IoT;
• Application, deployment, testbed and experiments in Semantic Web for IoT;
• Privacy and security of IoT data using semantics.

Dr. Luis Sánchez
Dr. Elias Tragos
Dr. Jorge Lanza
Dr. Tarek Elsaleh
Dr. Rachit Agarwal
Guest Editors

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• semantics
• Internet of Things
• interoperability
• service provision
• security