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This article presents the U-Deal, a decentralized and multi-agent ubiquitous commerce model, that describes a peer-to-peer context aware system, with a distributed context history (trail) engine and a dynamic profile generator. The aim of the model is to provide an automatic deal opportunity recommendation, based on user profile, preferences and activities history in a peer-to-peer environment. In...
Care processes in healthcare organizations are very complex and difficult to define precisely in advance. Furthermore, a specific process for the same disease can vary according to the characteristics of a patient and his or her situation at hand. In order to provide personalized healthcare services to patients, it is essential to identify the context of the patients. This paper presents an integrated...
The growing adoption of smart mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, is fundamentally changing the way how business is conducted. New mobile technologies exert a significant influence on individuals, organizations, and society at large. Our paper provides an analysis of empirical research on mobile computing in the information systems literature. The mobile computing paradigm has been used...
Since smart phones have become popular, intelligent adaptive services were more highly demanded. The intelligent synthetic character on a mobile phone is one of the promising services. It is difficult to develop an intelligent synthetic character on the mobile environment due to its dynamism and complexity. This paper proposes a method to generate a synthetic character's behaviors using contexts inferred...
Context-aware systems offer entirely new opportunities for application developers and for end users by gathering context data and adapting systems' behavior accordingly. In this paper, we propose a Context Aware ESB (CA-ESB) that will publish and discover services based on location context. The main modules of the framework consist of Context Provider (senses location context), Context Aware Logic...
The existing reminder system uses limited context information and has limited functions, so it can't meet users ' needs. This paper presents intelligent business assistant based on context-aware computing platform in a grid computing environment. The platform uses the context modeling and reasoning technology and analyzes the system in the grid environment. At last, the intelligent business assistant...
Modern business goals are often fulfilled with workflows that may cross many organisations and utilise services on a variety of devices and/or supported by different platforms. Current workflows are inherently context-aware. Each context is governed and constrained by its own policies and rules to prevent unauthorised participants from executing sensitive tasks and also to prevent tasks from accessing...
This paper introduces context-aware adaptation as an important part of power distribution architectures. In our view context-awareness is a necessary part of administering the business policies concerning power distribution and is orthogonal to the core engineering aspects of power distribution. By decoupling the engineering logic from the business aspects we can plug in different adaptation strategies...
In wireless mobile networks, because of low bandwidth, long delay, low reliability, disconnecting frequently and differences in many platforms of commercial services etc., it is difficult to get a stable and high quality commercial service. For this case, a flexible interface, context-aware and intelligent mobile E-commerce platform is designed. It connects kinds of commercial services platforms efficiently...
Nowadays, we are assisting to a paradigmatic shift for the development of web applications due to the pervasive distribution of their components among a lot of servers, which are dynamically interconnected by web links. As a consequence, the application logic is often defined by exploiting workflow languages since they are more suitable to address the complexity of these new running environments....
Using context-awareness to obtain information and giving proper services automatically is the future way of smart life. Attention to the context limits the overall vision of smart service system. Three main concepts: context, scene and content are abstracted from the whole process of providing smart service. Based on them, a framework of smart service system CABS3 is naturally presented. CABS3 contains...
Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing resources in the emerging ubiquitous network society. In this study, we propose a metaphoric concept called flowable service. It is defined as a logical stream that organizes and provides circumjacent services in such a way that they are perceived by individuals as those naturally embedded in their surrounding...
Context-awareness and adaptability are important and desirable properties of service-based processes designed to provide personalized services. Most of the existing approaches focus on the adaptation at the process instance level which involves extending the standard Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and its engine or creating their own process languages (e.g. However, the approach proposed...
In present day globalised trade, the ability to support collaboration through B2B (Business-to-Business) services is crucial. One of the key challenges is to pervasively connect partners across the entire value chain, with the appropriate service offerings. Thus, it is vital to quickly identify potential partners to form new B2B collaborations or to support formed collaborations with swift decision...
The adoption of WSPL as a language for expressing Web service policies has shown its adequacy. The expressivity and simplicity of that language were the key factors behind this success. A desired feature in specifying Web services policies is the introduction of the context concept. In fact, very often Web service designers look for expressing rules that depend on the context in which a Web service...
For the last decade, the area of e-business and e-service has expanded rapidly. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is introduced to create and execute a business process on the Web. In order to create and execute the business process, relevant web services need to be composed or reconfigured based on the business process logic. Traditionally, web services composition and reconfiguration are optimized...
The paper presents an adaptive and responsive service framework that integrates context aware techniques with an open source service oriented platform OSGi. The adoption of context aware techniques will allow the proposed service framework to dynamically and effectively manage services resources in response to in-bound tasks identified by the framework. The core services (i.e system services) of the...
The present study proposes a new approach for the examination of the individual user’s acceptance of technology and Information Systems. In particular, it examines the mediating role of Emotional State toward the individual acceptance of Pervasive Information Systems. The proposed research model was tested with data collected through an exploratory experiment (n=33) using a mobile Augmented Reality...
Ubiquitous computing technologies disclose new means for consumer product designs that allow products to adapt their behaviour and in particular communication to consumer needs and to interact with other products. In this sense, products become smart. Dialogues between products and consumers require new communicative product interfaces. Because unprecedented, we investigate an implementation of a...
This work describes innovative smart environments with embedded context-awareness technologies, enabling new business models and consequently the creation of new services. The context-awareness framework presented in this paper is taken from the results of an EU Framework Programme (FP) 7 Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) project. Major novelties include a business shift from traditional...
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