Ontologies are entering widespread use in many areas such as knowledge and content
management, electronic commerce and the Semantic Web. In this paper we show how the
use of ontologies has helped us overcome some important problems in the development of
pervasive computing environments. We have integrated ontologies and Semantic Web
technology into our pervasive computing infrastructure. Our investigations have shown that
Semantic Web technology can be integrated into our CORBA-based infrastructure to …

Abstract Pervasive Computing Environments consist of a large number of independent
entities that help transform physical spaces into computationally active and intelligent
spaces. These entities could be devices, applications, services or users. In recent years,
advances in middleware have enabled the different entities to interact with each other.
However, it is still difficult to assure that independent entities can understand the “semantics”
of the environment and other entities when they interact with each other. To tackle this …