Managing the Web of Things

Preface

Quan Z. Sheng     Sydney, Australia

Yongrui Qin     Huddersfield, England

Lina Yao     Sydney Australia

Boualem Benatallah     Sydney, Australia

Over the years, the World Wide Web has gone through many transformations, from traditional linking and sharing of computers and documents (i.e., “Web of Data”), to the current connection of people (i.e., “Web of People”), and to the emerging connection of billions of physical objects (i.e., “Web of Things”). Web of Things (WoT) aims to connect everyday objects, such as coats, shoes, watches, ovens, washing machines, bikes, cars, even humans, plants, animals, and changing environments, to the Internet to enable communication/interactions between these objects. The ultimate goal of WoT is ...