2nd International Workshop on the Semantic WEb of EveryThing

{ SWEET 2023 }

The diffusion of Web of Things (WoT) technologies, components and platforms is probably the most significant case history for that. Nevertheless, current proposals often have limited flexibility, particularly due to a lack of interoperability in information management. The prevalence of over-engineered architectures and application-specific tools make difficult the development of extensible solutions and services. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformative potential to improve the state of the art, by endowing intelligent agents embodied in ubiquitous objects with autonomic abilities to manipulate information resources enriched with explicit semantics. However, this requires facing on significant technical challenges, as AI paradigms should be revised and adapted to very resource-constrained devices and to decentralized coordination in pervasive computing environments.

The second edition of the SWEET International Workshop will focus on integrating, optimizing and exploiting artificial intelligence in WoT and pervasive computing scenarios. This will help pushing the Web Engineering boundary toward a Web of Smart Things, and particularly toward the Semantic Web of Things, where information is endowed with machine-understandable descriptions and devices provide adaptive capabilities for information discovery, reasoning, learning, argumentation, planning and coordination.

According to the ICWE aims and goals, the main research issues related to the workshop topics can be summarized referring to the following problems: