The MUGGES project was presented at the Toulouse Space Show 2010, a conference on space applications. The presentation first gives a brief introduction to the whole project. It then focuses on the location management part and explains the hybrid location management system designed for MUGGES.

1. A Hybrid and Semantic Location
Management System for Mobile User
Generated Geo Services
Christian Guggenmos
christian.guggenmos@deusto.es
Mobility Research Lab, DeustoTech
University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
SPACE APPLI  Personal Mobility
Toulouse Space Show, Thursday, June 10th 2010, Toulouse

2. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Table of Contents
 MUGGES introduction / objectives
 Mugglets and Use Case
 Architecture
 Location Management System
 Conclusion
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3. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Introduction to MUGGES
Mobile UserGenerated Geo Services
 Mobile services are directly accessed, created,
and launched from mobile devices
 UserGenerated users create content and type
of services
 Geo Services always connected to a location
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4. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
MUGGES objectives
Beyond usergenerated contents
 Users act as consumer, producer, and provider
 From their mobile devices
Consumer Producer
Super
Prosumer
Provider Mobile
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5. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Mugglets
MUGGES micro-applications
 Sharply focused applications
 Instantaneously available
 Short-term, i.e. up-to-date information
 Every user is potential creator and
provider (“prosumer”)
 From mobile to mobile
 Location-based
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6. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Use Case
 Jack comes to the Toulouse Space
Show
 Long and interesting day
 A “muggesNote” indicates a good
restaurant close to the conference
center
 Jack meets colleagues from the
talks and has a good dinner
 Creates muggesNotes
recommending the steak
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7. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Prosumer Triangle
 Information flow MUGGES
directly between server
mobile devices
 Infrastructure to
Search & instantiate
 Enable search templates
Update location
Search mugglets
 Provide Mugglet Update location
templates mugglets
(exchange information)
 Manage location
Provider Consumer
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8. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Location Problem
 Location has many facets
 “Toulouse, France”, “Room 312”
 “Next to the church”
 “Latitude 43.604, longitude 1.443”
 Several location mechanisms
 GPS / Galileo
 Cell tower or Wi-Fi network ids
 Text input
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9. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
MUGGES Location
 Combination of location attributes
 Physical (coordinates [43.604, 1.443])
 Symbolic (“Toulouse”, “Room 312”)
 Semantic (“next to the church”)
 Unique location
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10. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Location Server
Mugglet 1
Mugglet 3 “muggesNote” Mugglet 2
“muggesTrail” “muggesNote”
Provider Consumer
GPS
Wi-Fi MUGGES Location Wi-Fi
Bluetooth http://mugges-fp7.org/ Cell-ID
location/124531
coor-
symbolic
dinates
semantics
Map GPS to Map Wi-Fi+Cell-ID to
MUGGES Location MUGGES Location
Barcode
Browse
GPS Matrix Wi-Fi
Location
Hierarchy
Galileo Code Cell-ID Geonames
RFID... Google Maps
precise mapping exact mapping
Yahoo Maps
manual mapping coarse mapping
external OpenStreetMap
Location Data services ...
MUGGES
Location Server
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11. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Location Server
 Transparent mapping of locations
 Consistent location concept between
Mugglets
 Translation between different location
aspects
 Mapping service
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12. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Location ontologies
P:isParentOf A:isParentOf
MUGGES MUGGES MUGGES MUGGES
Location Location Location Location
P:isChildOf A:isChildOf
Political Ontology Administrative Ontology
G:contains
MUGGES MUGGES
Location G:isNearTo
Location
G:isContainedIn
Geographic Ontology
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13. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Location relations
University
A:isParentOf of Deusto A:isParentOf
G:contains G:contains
Campus of A:isParentOf
Bilbao Campus of San San
Bilbao Sebastian Sebastian
P:isParentOf P:isParentOf
G:contains
DeustoTech
Mugglet MoreLab A:isParentOf
Mugglet
“Talk 1”
“Talk 2”
G:contains G:contains
Room 123 isNearTo Room 321
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14. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Benefits
 Better search capabilities
 Mugglets in child show up in parent
 Different ontologies cover different types of locations
(e.g. touristic places)
 Reasoning to add attributes
 Missing coordinates taken from parent location
 Closeness relation based on sibling feature
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15. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Related Projects and Activities
 Long term programme on the “super-prosumer”
concept (2006-2012)
 MUGGES user trial in July/September 2010
+Ideas
(PSE 2006/07
(Cénit, 2008)
Basic New R&D Activities
Research (FP7, others)
(FP7, ICT) (ITEA2, 2009)
(+New activities:
(FP7, GALILEO) trials, demos, Market
etc.) impact
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16. Objectives Architecture HS-LMS Conclusion
Summary
 Super-Prosumer concept
 Mobile consumer, producer, provider
 Mugglets are focused on specific groups
 Immediately available, short-term
 Up-to-date information
 MUGGES Location
 Hybrid location model
 Consistent concept of “location”
 Reasoning between locations
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