SMART-M3 v.0.9: A semantic event processing engine supporting information level interoperability in ambient intelligence

Emerging computing paradigms such as pervasive computing, Internet of Things, and cyber-physical systems require novel approaches for managing interoperability between heterogeneous systems and devices. This tutorial describes in detail how Semantic Web technologies can be utilized in order to build systems interoperable at the semantic level. In particular, the tutorial focuses on systems where fast event processing is vital and introduces simple primitives for creating and subscribing to events with SPARQL. The tutorial also describes how to design such systems in modular and extendable way and provides the reader with important hands-on knowledge on application development. The proposed software infrastructure is the result of European research projects with significant contribution from the University of Bologna and all the material here discussed is available as open source so the reader can instantly start experimenting by developing her/his own applications.