Making Sense of Sensors: End-to-End Algorithms and Infrastructure Design from Wearable-Devices to Data Centers

© Omesh Tickoo and Ravi Iyer 2017

Omesh Tickoo and Ravi Iyer, Making Sense of Sensors, 10.1007/978-1-4302-6593-1_6

6. Knowledge and Ontologies

Omesh Tickoo¹  and Ravi Iyer²

(1)Portland, Oregon, USA

(2)3585 SW, Portland, USA

So far the chapters in the book have focused on the primary task of data acquisition and relationship extraction. For the more sophisticated applications, specifically the ones that exhibit some form of intelligence, the relationship information forms the basis of reasoning and interpretation. The recent surge in Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and other data analytics-based services is in part because of technologies taking advantage of the various knowledge representation mechanisms. In this chapter we focus on introducing ...