Towards context-aware web services

International audienceThe advancement of wireless networks and mobile comuting requires advanced information systems built with contextawareness. These systems are more and more based on the usage of Web Services that are based on a system designed to support interoperable application-to-application interaction over the web. However, the classical architecture of these services does not take into account the idea of context adaptation and that is where the direction of our work is heading. In this article, we present our proposal which aims to extend the classical architecture of Web Services to a context-aware architecture in order to provide nomadic users with a list of Web Services that are adapted not only to their profile but also to their context