SmartWeb: Mobile Applications of the Semantic Web

Abstract Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localization features. The goal of the SmartWeb project (duration: 2004 – 2007) is to lay the foundations for multimodal user interfaces to distributed and composable semantic Web services on mobile devices. The SmartWeb consortium brings together experts from various research communities: mobile services, intelligent user interfaces, language and speech technology, information extraction, and semantic Web technologies (see www.smartweb-project.org). SmartWeb is based on two parallel efforts that have the potential of forming the basis for the next generation of the Web. The first effort is the semantic Web [1] which provides the tools for the explicit markup of the content of Web pages; the second effort is the development of semantic Web services which results in a Web where programs act as autonomous agents to bec...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: KI
• Authors: Wolfgang Wahlster
• Keywords: KI 2004, Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services, Web Pages