Tiny-ME Wasm: Description Logics Reasoning in Your Browser

The World Wide Web is increasingly adopted as an application development platform in desktop and mobile contexts. As a building block of the Semantic Web of Everything vision, reasoning engines should be able to run in the client side of Web applications without resorting to remote servers for inference tasks. In order to fill a gap in the availability of such systems, this paper proposes Tiny-ME Wasm, a WebAssembly port of the Tiny-ME Description Logics reasoning and matchmaking engine. Tiny-ME Wasm exposes standard and non-standard inference services through a JavaScript API on top of the Tiny-ME core compiled to WebAssembly. A privacy-oriented service discovery case study highlights the usefulness of the proposed solution and a preliminary performance analysis demonstrates its usability on laptop and mobile devices.