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Context-Aware Services Engineering for Service-Oriented Architectures

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With the proliferation of ubiquitous computing devices and the Internet, context-aware Web services continue to evolve from simple proof of concept implementations created in the laboratory to large and complex real-world services developed in industry. Context-awareness capabilities in service interfaces introduce additional challenges to the software engineer. In order to handle the additional complexities associated with these special services, solid software engineering methodologies are needed during their development and execution. This chapter proposes a novel software engineering-based approach, which leverages the benefits of model-driven architecture, aspect-oriented modeling, and formal model checking, for engineering context-aware services for service-oriented architectures. The approach has been validated using a real-world case study in intelligent transport. An evaluation framework has been established to validate the main methods and tools employed. We also present two key research directions, extending this work to further benefit the wider service engineering and pervasive computing communities.

The work reported here was performed during the author’s Ph.D. studies. The author is currently affiliated with the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy.

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Abeywickrama, D.B. (2014). Context-Aware Services Engineering for Service-Oriented Architectures. In: Bouguettaya, A., Sheng, Q., Daniel, F. (eds) Web Services Foundations. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7518-7_12

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