Contact/Advisor: Krzysztof Janowicz

Supervisor: Werner Kuhn

Mobility: Work on the ontology should be done at ifgi, while modelling one process as use case can be done at INPE.

Selecting sensors manually to observe a complex process is a difficult task. Which sensors should be used? Which temporal resolution should be chosen? Where to place the sensors? Instead deciding manually, one could define an ontology of processes. Such ontology would describe processes in terms of how their are observed. Picking a process from this ontology is like selecting a cookbook for a specific recipe. Besides providing the necessary information on which sensors to chose and how to configure them (the composition step), the ontology would also support retrieval of sensors (the retrieval step) by aligning them to the processes observable by them.