Towards a Context-Based Service Composition Framework

Abstract — Services can be defined as software components, or building blocks that are provided in order to be assembled, and reused in a distributed Internet-based environment. The development of new services through the integration of existing ones (referred to as service composition) is generating considerable interest in recent years in several computer science communities. Existing service composition systems miss out on the opportunity of enormous benefits by exploiting useful contextual information relevant to service discovery and composition. This paper presents the CB-SeC framework (CB-SeC stands from Context Based Service Composition). The approach adopted in this framework is the combination of context-aware computing and agent technology, in order to provide better user-tailored services in pervasive environments. Keywords—Context-aware computing, mobile services, multi-agent systems, pervasive computing, service composition. I