WHAT CAN CONTEXT DO FOR WEB SERVICES?

This article discusses context-aware web services. The authors note that web services have become embraced by industry as information technologies rapidly develop. The article argues the rationale of associating context with web services, stating that the process involves three steps. These steps in...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 98 - 103
Autores principales: Maamar, Zakaria, Benslimane, Djamal, Narendra, Nanjangud
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2006
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Sumario:This article discusses context-aware web services. The authors note that web services have become embraced by industry as information technologies rapidly develop. The article argues the rationale of associating context with web services, stating that the process involves three steps. These steps include deploying internet services that asses the appropriate environment, reducing the heterogeneity gap between independent web services involved in a composition, and addressing concilating contexts of web services using ontologies.