Using Context Information for Service Discovery and Composition.

Abstract

In principle, with Web services application creation is simply a matter of discovering, selecting the right services and composing them into a solution (1). Existing approaches for service discovery and composition, typically facilitate or- chestration only, while neglecting information about the context of users and services as well. However while computing today is becoming increasingly pervasive there is an unaddressed need of more location and context-aware support. In this paper we present a generic framework that combines service-oriented and context-aware computing in order to provide users with more tailored composite services.