DomoML: the definition of a standard markup for interoperability of human home interactions

DomoML is a mark-up language aimed at the definition of interoperability standard for domestic resources within the NICHE project (Natural Interaction in Computerised Home Environment). The project focuses on human language as a means for mediating user interaction with the home environment, enabling a user to control, query and program devices. Various heterogeneous components are going to take part in this architecture, and DomoML is the glue which allows them to be interfaced. It is a mark-up language intended to define a semantic layer on which novel value-added services (agents) can easily be built.