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Designing and Building Context-Aware Services: The ContextServ Project

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Next-Gen Digital Services. A Retrospective and Roadmap for Service Computing of the Future

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In the era of Web of Things and services, context-aware services (CASs) are emerging as an important technology for building innovative smart applications. CASs enable the information integration from both the physical and virtual world, which affects the way human live. However, it is still challenging to build CASs, due to lack of context provisioning management approach and lack of generic approach for formalizing the development process. In this paper, we briefly introduce a large research project, ContextServ, which provides a platform for model-driven development of CASs based on a UML-based modelling language. We discuss the literature and also highlight several future research opportunities for context-aware service research and development.

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    http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/.

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Acknowledgments

The ContextServ project has been partially supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant DP0878367. Quan Z. Sheng’s research has been also partially supported by an ARC Future Fellowship FT140101247.

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  1. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia

    Quan Z. Sheng & Shuang Wang

  2. Department of Computer Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Jian Yu

  3. School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

    Wei Emma Zhang

  4. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

    Shuang Wang & Xiaoping Li

  5. School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Boualem Benatallah

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Sheng, Q.Z., Yu, J., Zhang, W.E., Wang, S., Li, X., Benatallah, B. (2021). Designing and Building Context-Aware Services: The ContextServ Project. In: Aiello, M., Bouguettaya, A., Tamburri, D.A., van den Heuvel, WJ. (eds) Next-Gen Digital Services. A Retrospective and Roadmap for Service Computing of the Future. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73203-5_11

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