MiRE4OWL: Mobile Rule Engine for OWL

Abstract

Mobile user devices, such as smart phones have become the most popular high-end mobile devices far beyond just cellular communication devices. They will continue evolving toward being palm-top computers with the rapid development of wireless communications and platform technologies. This paper introduces our development of a semantic reasoner called MiRE4OWL to be installed onto the resource-limited mobile user devices to accommodate context-aware ubiquitous computing services. It is a data-log and rule-based inference engine which performs semantic reasoning operations over the application semantics represented in OWL-DL. The mobile rule engine that underlies MiRE4OWL achieves light-weight design to meet the resource constraints of the mobile devices and yet achieves better expressiveness than existing engines. The performance evaluation showed that the intended functionality and resource efficiency have been fulfilled.