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Context-aware pervasive service composition and its implementation

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Incorporating service composition and pervasive computing into managing users’ complex everyday activities calls for the Pervasive Service Composition paradigm for everyday life. In this paper, we propose the concept of Context-Aware Pervasive Service Composition (CAPSC), which aims at enabling a pervasive system to provide user service compositions that are relevant to the situation at hand. We investigate CAPSC requirements and design a CAPSC architecture by taking into account context-aware peer coordination, context-aware process service adaptation, and context-aware utility service adaptation. We present a proof of concept application prototype as well.

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Acknowledgments

This work was carried out in the SOPSCC project (Pervasive Service Computing: A Solution Based on Web Services), funded in the Ubiquitous Computing and Diversity of Communication (MOTIVE) program by the Academy of Finland, and ITEA2-CAM4Home project funded by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes). Many thanks to our colleagues Mika Rautiainen, Arto Heikkinen and Jouni Sarvanko for the prototype implementation.

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    Jiehan Zhou, Ekaterina Gilman, Juha Palola, Jukka Riekki, Mika Ylianttila & Junzhao Sun

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Zhou, J., Gilman, E., Palola, J. et al. Context-aware pervasive service composition and its implementation. Pers Ubiquit Comput 15, 291–303 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-010-0333-5

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