A service-oriented middleware for composing context aware mobile services

• Author(s): Sousa, João Paulo ; Fonseca, Benjamim ; Carrapatoso, Eurico
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7168
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Context-aware; Services composition; Semantic web; Web services
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Recent advances in wireless networks and mobile devices have brought about new scenes for the provision of services to end-users. Besides traditional services, new ones may be provided that transparently adjust and adapt to the user context. The user would have more choice and flexibility if, besides using the services, he could also compose his own services in an ad-hoc way. This paper presents iCas, an architecture to create context-aware services on the fly and discusses its main components. Also an application scenario is briefly described.