The Web of Things: Findability Taxonomy and Challenges

Abstract

Due to an increase in the number of devices, the Web of Things (WoT) has attracted a great deal of attention and focus from researchers in the past few years. The ultimate goal of Web of Things is to build an ideal search engine where the user or even devices can find other devices anywhere and at any time for using the resources of other devices. The purpose of the paper is to identify and to present the current research on Web of Things. Additionally, the paper focuses on the research gap that currently exists and on future needs in the domain of WoT. In Author's opinion, the literature review presented in the paper will effectively help the researchers in finding resources in WoT as it highlights the research gap in the domain of Web of Things and searching resources in WoT. The results of the review indicate that the current challenges for the Web of Things are dynamic searching, scalability, data integration, intent-based searching, etc. The focus of this paper is on dynamic searching.

Keywords

• Indexing
• ranking
• crawling
• IoT
• WoT
• things model