Developments in (wireless) sensor and actuator networks and the capabilities to
manufacture low cost and energy efficient networked embedded devices have lead to …

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 presents the concept of an Adaptive SOA Solution Stack (AS3). It is an extension
of the S3 model, implemented via uniform application of the AS3 element pattern across …

Data are central to scientific research and practices. The advance of experiment methods
and information retrieval technologies leads to explosive growth of scientific data and …

In order to achieve automatic and more intelligent service composition, dynamic description
logic (DDL) is proposed and utilized as one emerging logic-level solution. However …

Ubiquitous computing promotes the proliferation of various stationary, embedded and
mobile devices interconnected by heterogeneous networks. It leads to a highly dynamic …

In the context of e-health, professionals and healthcare service providers in various
organisational and geographical locations are to work together, using information and …

With the rapid development and integration of the Internet, wireless communication network
and the Internet of Things, the Internet faces many challenges as a bearer network: a large …

In this paper, we present a user-centered approach, which ensures dynamic service
discovery and composition. Besides, our proposed framework integrates self-adaptive …

Legacy application design models, which are still widely used for developing context-aware
applications, incur important limitations. Firstly, embedding contextual dependencies in the …