A survey of the semantic specification of sensors

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 522, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-32

  Compton, Michael ^a   Henson, Cory ^b   Lefort, Laurent ^a   Neuhaus, Holger ^a   Sheth, Amit ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECLARATIVE DESCRIPTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS SENSOR NETWORKS; REUSE AND INTEGRATIONS; SEARCH TECHNOLOGY; SEMANTIC SENSORS; SEMANTIC SPECIFICATION; SENSOR ONTOLOGIES; STATE OF THE ART;

SPECIFICATIONS;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84891394129     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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