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Adaptive Service Composition for Meta-searching in a Mobile Environment

2011; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-23957-1_46

1868-422X

Ronnie Cheung, Hassan Kazemian,

Mobile and Web Applications

The underlying technologies driving the World Wide Web are largely based on the assumption of wired communications and powerful desktop hardware. This is not true when a user is accessing the Web pages and documents using a PDA and moving from wireless network in a mall to a neighboring office environment. Taking into consideration on the information needs of the user, we have developed a meta-search application that can be executed on mobile devices with limited hardware capabilities. By running in the auto-configuration mode, the system detects the dynamic contextual information, and presents the results of meta-searching in a suitable format to cope with the limitations of the mobile stations. This is achieved by an adaptive service composition that is defined according to the adaptation model defined in a system configuration file.