]> Curious Home Infrastructure Vocabulary Initial experimental vocabulary exercised in Phase 0.5 of the Curious Home application/rdf+xml 2004-04-22 Mark Thompson (mkt@ecs.soton.ac.uk) Sensable Thing Things that can be sensed Physical Object Objects that are ultrasonically tracked/identified has Identity identity of object being tracked/identified has Position position (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has orientation (x) orientation length of unit vector in x (yz plane) (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has orientation (y) orientation length of unit vector in y (xz plane) (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has orientation (z) orientation length of unit vector in z (xy plane) (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has velocity (x) velocity in x cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has velocity (y) velocity in y cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has velocity (z) velocity in z cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has acceleration (x) acceleration in x cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has acceleration (y) acceleration in y cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified has acceleration (z) acceleration in z cartesian axis (inferred/stated) of object being tracked/identified is at object in abstract place is positioned relative to object positioned relative to a place is proximate to objet positioned relative to another object is attached to two objects connected to each other is part of two objects in a containment relationship is in containment relationship for places rather than objects is on adjacency relationship for places rather than objects Position Abstract position of thing being tracked/identified cartesian position position of thing being tracked/identified relative to some co-ordinate system x displacement x co-ord from some arbitrary origin y displacement y co-ord from some arbitrary origin z displacement z co-ord from some arbitrary origin logical position position of thing being tracked/identified relative to some other object place somewhere things can be surface a place for putting things on container a place for putting things in contains containment relationship for objects in places is accessible accessibility property for objects in containers is lockable lockability property for objects in containers is locked state of whether locked property holds for objects in containers room a room is a container is a place... portal a portal connects places portal connect portal to place(s) sensor something that can sense state actuator something that can change state device something that can host device components device something that attaches or comprises devices has last observation last observation made by sensor has observations list of observations made by sensor is managed by managerial relationship between devices and device components is connected to connection relationship between devices and device components senses what a sensor can sense sense by method a sensor can use to sense something sensing method method of sensing something can affect what sensable things the actuator can affect has last output change in sensable thing last attempted (output) from actuator is controlled by controller of actuator hosts software mapping from device to software components running on it agent a curious process person a person (that can act as an agent) software component a software component that is an agent, capable of deciding to do stuff or being aware of stuff to observe believes a belief held by an agent asserts performative assertion of a belief refutes performative refutation of a belief receives receives observation has responsive mechanism dunno.. Chris? value value of an observable event value type type of a value of an observable event observation an obersvation made by a sensor belief a belief (an interpretation of an observation?) held by an agent value type type of value observed type ground type binding for a ValueType units ground units binding for a ValueType exact value exact value observed by which sensor makes this observation concerns which sensable thing this observation concerns observed value value that observation represents as being sensed confidence degree [0..1] of confidence in fidelity of value observation time time observation made belief held by a belief is held by an agent belief regarded as status of a belief held by an agent belief standing status of belief (an enumeration, probably: concur, refute, ...?)