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Improving Data and Service Interoperability with Structure, Compliance, Conformance and Context Awareness

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The Web has been continuously growing, in number of connected nodes and quantity of information exchanged. The Internet of Things (IoT), with devices that largely outnumber Internet users and have little computing power, has contributed to show the limitations of current Web technologies (namely, HTTP) for the integration of small systems. New protocols, such as CoAP and WebSockets, alleviate some of the problems but do not solve them at the origin. This chapter revisits the interoperability problem in the IoT context and proposes an architectural style, Structural Services, which combines the service modelling capabilities of SOA with the flexibility of structured resources in REST. The simplicity of JSON is combined with operation descriptions in a service-oriented distributed programming language that provides design time self-description without the need for a separate schema language. Interoperability, at the data and service levels, is enhanced with partial interoperability (by using compliance and conformance) and a context model that contemplates forward and backward contextual information. Efficiency and lower computing power requirements, aspects highly relevant for IoT systems, are supported by using a binary message format resulting from compilation of the source program and that uses self-description information only when needed.

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Delgado, J.C. (2014). Improving Data and Service Interoperability with Structure, Compliance, Conformance and Context Awareness. In: Bessis, N., Dobre, C. (eds) Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 546. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05029-4_2

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