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What can context do for web services?
Communications of the ACM
  • Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University
  • Djamal Benslimane, UniversitĂ© Claude Bernard Lyon 1
  • Nanjangud C. Narendra, IBM India Pvt Ltd
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2006
Abstract

Academia and industry, with the rapid development of information technologies, are adopting Web services due to their integration capabilities. Web services are being actively used for connecting business processes in business-to-business scenarios. The Web services community uses different languages for specifying Web services composition like BPEL and WSFL. The primary objective of these specification languages is to provide a high-level description of the composition process independent from any implementation details or concern. The need for a common semantics is intensified when Web services participate in the same composition. Web services, to reduce the limitations, must be context-aware, context is the information which characterizes the interactions between humans, applications and the environment. A possible solution to achieving a contextual semantic composition of Web services is built upon the semantic-value concept.

Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Composition,
  • Computer hardware description languages,
  • Context sensitive languages,
  • Human computer interaction,
  • Information technology,
  • Business-to-business scenarios,
  • Integration capabilities,
  • Semantic-value concept,
  • Web services,
  • Websites
Scopus ID
33749397717
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1145/1183236.1183238
Citation Information
Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane and Nanjangud C. Narendra. "What can context do for web services?" Communications of the ACM Vol. 49 Iss. 12 (2006) p. 98 - 103 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0001-0782" target="_blank">0001-0782</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zakaria-maamar/128/