Description

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With respect to history, the O-Smart platform is an evolution of the core modules developed, in the context of the European project SembySem, by the LISSI Lab and Thales. The SembySem project - an acronym for SErvices Management by Semantics - was funded by the DGCIS - French public authority - and coordinated by Thales, under the EUREKA ITEA2 Framewrok Program from 2008 to 2010. It aims at creating a lightweight and flexible open source framework to promote the use of micro-ontologies and closed world assumption (CWA) business rules for the management of complex systems, called also systems of systems. With respect to reasoning, O-Smart is intended to support in the future spatio temporal RDF queries using SPARQL, soft computing add-ons and new CWA formalisms such as event condition actions and epistemic event calculus. This will be done through an integration of the Cerebro hybrid reasoning platform

By moving to a cloud architecture the O-SMART platform will benefit from several advantages. For instance, multi domain security, high availability, reliability and no single point of failure. Moreover, multi tenancy and isolation will make it possible to allow for a billing based on the real usage of reasoning services and access to the semantic knowledge while the software will remain always free and open source.

The architecture is under specification according the recommendations of the ETSI TC CLOUD and the CSA cloud alliance.