Abstract Distributed Interactive Workspaces (DIWs) are interactive environments, accessible
through different devices, where end users create new content by exploring and aggregating …

The recent emergence of mashup tools has refueled research on end-user development, ie,
on enabling end-users without programming skills to compose their own applications. Yet …

In this paper we present our experience in building a socio-technical infrastructure for
supporting social innovation in Information Technology. We start by describing a case study …

In this paper I discuss the motivation behind the continuing failure of composition
technologies (workflows, service composition, mashups) over the past two decades, as well …

Mashup is defined as the practice of lightweight composition, serendipitous reuse, and user-
centric development on the Web. In spite of the fact that the development of mashups is …

Due to the increasing number of available web APIs and services, mashups have become a
prominent approach for building situational web applications. Still, current mashup tooling is …

This paper presents a systematic literature review of end-user service composition. It
reviews current activities performed by end users, and tools and approaches that enable …

Abstract Service composition is a process of developing service-based applications that
combine the functionality and features from multiple service providers in a unified solution. In …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

In the last years, the debate about the success or failure of Linked Data (LD) has been
growing. Despite the ever-increasing number of available ontologies and LD datasets, there …