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Towards User-Aware Service Composition

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Our everyday life is more and more supported by the information technology in general and by specific services provided by means of our electronic devices. The AMBIT project (Algorithms and Models for Building context-dependent Information delivery Tools) aims at providing a support to develop services that are automatically tailored based on the user profile. However, while the adaptation of the single services is the first step, the next step is to achieve adaptation in the composition of different services. In this paper, we explore how services can be composed in a user-aware way, in order to decide the composition that better meets users’ requirements. That is, we exploit the user profile not only to provide her with customized services, but also to compose them in a suitable way.

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Notes

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    http://www.agentgroup.unimore.it/ambit/.

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    We adopt the well known Markov chain approximation: in our context, the probability of choosing the next service depends only on the preceding service and not on the whole sequence of services that preceded it.

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This work was supported by the project “Algorithms and Models for Building context-dependent Information delivery Tools” (AMBIT) co-funded by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena (SIME 2013.0660).

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    Giacomo Cabri, Mauro Leoncini, Riccardo Martoglia & Franco Zambonelli

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Cabri, G., Leoncini, M., Martoglia, R., Zambonelli, F. (2016). Towards User-Aware Service Composition. In: Vinh, P., Barolli, L. (eds) Nature of Computation and Communication. ICTCC 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 168. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46909-6_2

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