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Towards context-aware adaptable web services

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Alfons KemperAuthors Info & Claims

WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters

Pages 55 - 65

https://doi.org/10.1145/1013367.1013378

Published: 19 May 2004 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present a context framework that facilitates the development and deployment of context-aware adaptable Web services. Web services are provided with context information about clients that may be utilized to provide a personalized behavior. Context is extensible with new types of information at any time without any changes to the underlying infrastructure. Context processing is done by Web services, context plugins, or context services. Context plugins and context services pre- and post-process Web service messages based on the available contextinformation. Both are essential for automatic context processing and automatic adaption of Web services to new context types without the necessity to adjust the Web services themselves. We implemented the context framework within the ServiceGlobe system, our open and distributed Web service platform.

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