Location-Based Services

A Knowledge-Based Approach to Enhance Provision of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments

Location-Based Services (LBS) are attracting a great interest with the fast expansion of mobile computing nowadays. These services use the user location to customize the offered information. However, most of those services are designed for specific …

Semantic Management of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments

The context of the work presented in this thesis is mobile computing and knowledge management. We focus on the usage of semantic technologies for representation, sharing, and integration of knowledge about services (specially Location-Based Services) …

SHERLOCK: Semantic Management of Location-Based Services in Wireless Environments

Location-Based Services (LBSs) are attracting nowadays a great interest, mainly due to the economic value they can provide. So, different applications are being developed for tracking, navigation, advertising, etc., but most of those applications are …

Flexible Access to Services in Smart Cities: Let SHERLOCK Advise Modern Citizens

Citizens can access a variety of computing services to get information, but it is often difficult to know which service will offer the best information. Researchers in the SHERLOCK (System for Heterogeneous mobilE Requests by Leveraging Ontological …

Semantic Management of Moving Objects with SHERLOCK

Semantic-Based Query Processing on Moving Objects