End-user Facilitated Interoperability in Internet of Things: Visually-enriched User-assisted Ontology Alignment

Nowadays, we make a separation between the real/physical world and the Internet. It is time for these two be blended and provide ubiquitous access and interoper ability online. We are approaching Internet of Things a f orthcoming technological revolution that will radically change our environment and enable innovative applications and services. To make this happen, we have to eliminate the fragm entation in used technologies and have to make the devices b e used across various applications and services. We need t o find a way to actually carry out the necessary and massive dep loyment of ubiquitous devices. So we need to put more effort i nto the design of tools to automate deployment and configur ation of devices. This paper tackled a problem of an effecti ve way to support interoperability in Internet of Things. We consider human as a very powerful asset in the world of ubiq uitous systems and services that may provide his/her knowl edge, experience and expertise. At the same time, we see a lack of human-oriented systems and infrastructures to suppo rt such a new role of a human. With a respect to the above st atements, authors propose visually-enriched approach for user -powered ontology alignment to facilitate semantic interoper ability in the