A Novel Intermediary Framework for Dynamic Edge Service Composition

Canali, Claudia; Colajanni, Michele; Malandrino, Delfina; Scarano, Vittorio; Spinelli, R.

doi:10.1007/s11390-012-1223-2

Cited by 9 publications

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“…In general, these studies suggested the use of multiple input and output modes of interaction (e.g., [74,89,90]), the adaptation of interfaces to ft diverse device characteristics (e.g. [73,91]) and user profles (e.g., [81]), and the simplicity of the user interface (e.g., [78,79,83]). Most of the functional needs were related to the interaction and user interface of composite services.…”

Section: Service Composition Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

Namoun

Tufail

Nawaz

et al. 2023

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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Integrating smart heterogeneous objects, IoT devices, data sources, and software services to produce new business processes and functionalities continues to attract considerable attention from the research community due to its unraveled advantages, including reusability, adaptation, distribution, and pervasiveness. However, the exploitation of service-oriented computing technologies (e.g., SOC, SOA, and microservice architectures) by people with special needs is underexplored and often overlooked. Furthermore, the existing challenges in this area are yet to be identified clearly. This research study presents a rigorous literature survey of the recent advances in service-oriented composition approaches and solutions for disabled people, their domains of application, and the major challenges, covering studies published between January 2010 and October 2022. To this end, we applied the systematic literature review (SLR) methodology to retrieve and collate only the articles presenting and discussing service composition solutions tailored to produce digitally accessible services for consumption by people who suffer from an impairment or loss of some physical or mental functions. We searched six renowned bibliographic databases, particularly IEEE Xplore, Web of Science, Springer Link, ACM Library, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar, to synthesize a final pool of 38 related articles. Our survey contributes a comprehensive taxonomy of service composition solutions, techniques, and practices that are utilized to create assistive technologies and services. The seven-facet taxonomy helps researchers and practitioners to quickly understand and analyze the fundamental conceptualizations and characteristics of accessible service composition for people with disabilities. Key findings showed that services are fused to assist disabled persons to carry out their daily activities, mainly in smart homes and ambient intelligent environments. Despite the emergence of immersive technologies (e.g., wearable computing), user-service interactions are enabled primarily through tactile and speech modalities. Service descriptions mainly incorporate functional features (e.g., performance, latency, and cost) of service quality, largely ignoring accessibility features. Moreover, the outstanding research problems revolve around (1) the unavailability of assistive services datasets, (2) the underspecification of accessibility aspects of disabilities, (3) the weak adoption of accessible and universal design practices, (4) the abstraction of service composition approaches, and (5) the rare experimental testing of composition approaches with disabled users. We conclude our survey with a set of guidelines to realize effective assistive service composition in IoT and cloud environments. Researchers and practitioners are advised to create assistive services that support the social relationships of disabled users and model their accessibility needs as part of the quality of service (QoS). Moreover, they should exploit AI/ML models to address the evolving requirements of disabled users in their unique environments. Furthermore, weaknesses of service composition solutions and research challenges are exposed as notable opportunities for future research.

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Section: Service Composition Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

Namoun

Tufail

Nawaz

et al. 2023

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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“…However, it must be emphasized that adaptation and presentation, needed to make content accessible anytime, anywhere, and from any access device, is a well-known issue in the field of mobile and ubiquitous environments, regardless of the specific context in which mobile devices are used [35], [36], [37].…”

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A Tailorable Infrastructure to Enhance Mobile Seamless Learning

Malandrino

Manno

Palmieri

et al. 2015

IEEE Trans. Learning Technol.

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The widespread use of mobile devices is leading towards their adoption in the learning process, even if some pedagogical challenges are still not fully addressed when integrating mobile-assisted activities into regular curricula activities. In this paper, we first define some guidelines to design a general, tailorable, and platform-independent mobile learning system. Second, we present the aCME system, a mobile infrastructure, developed by adhering to the defined guidelines, to provide a general-purpose system, easy to start up with and friendly to user, and finally, tailorable, i.e., that can be easily adapted to the needs of different learning environments. The aCME system has been implemented as a Web-based architecture, to provide content and functionalities for different contexts, accessible from any location and by using any communication device. Finally, we describe a tool, deployed into aCME, that allows responding to quiz-based questionnaires during learning activities. A preliminary evaluation was performed to analyze usability and user satisfaction when interacting with the system we developed. The paper is concluded with some comments and future research directions.

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“…This dichotomy involves situations in which users are less willing to take actions to protect privacy when some benefits can be obtained in return [32]. In fact, studies in this field show that only a small percentage of users read privacy policies, understand their content [33], and adopt privacy protective techniques and technologies [29], [34], [35].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Increased Awareness Can Impact Attitudes and Behaviors toward Online Privacy Protection

Malandrino

Scarano

Spinelli

2013

2013 International Conference on Social Computing

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People on the Web are generating and disclosing an ever-increasing amounts of data, often without full awareness of who is recording what about them, and who is aggregating and linking pieces of data with context information, for a variety of purposes. Awareness can help users to be informed about what silently happens during their navigation while learning from disclosure of personal information may help to discriminate potential harmful activities from daily and regular activities that can be performed online. Our main objective is to study whether a highly customized tool can help users to learn the value of privacy from their behaviors and make informed decisions to reduce their degree of exposure. To this aim, we present an evaluation study to analyze general perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about privacy online, and to explore the resultant behaviors for two different groups of participants from an academic environment. Results show that users from the ICT field (Information and Communication Technology) are less concerned than non-ICT ones (i.e., not technological-oriented students), and that skill and expertise can influence the perception of the risks as well as the corresponding behaviors. Finally, students with less expertise in the ICT field learned more than the others, by showing greater willingness to adopt technologies to protect their privacy online.

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A Novel Intermediary Framework for Dynamic Edge Service Composition

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

A Systematic Literature Review on Service Composition for People with Disabilities: Taxonomies, Solutions, and Open Research Challenges

A Tailorable Infrastructure to Enhance Mobile Seamless Learning

How Increased Awareness Can Impact Attitudes and Behaviors toward Online Privacy Protection

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