Context for Personalized Web Services

Context, Quality and Relevance: Dependencies and Impacts on RESTful Web Services Design

“…We present our guidelines for this purpose by means of an experimental service which is a RESTful Web service to provide data from the Google Flu Trend 12 . In our experimental service, named googleFluTrend, the list of countries is considered as a data resource and each country is also considered as a data resource 13 .…”

“…Most related works using quality and context information in serviceoriented computing can be divided into three classes: (i) approaches to enhanced Web service design, such as different ways to add non-functional parameters to Web services in [14]; (ii) techniques to increase the relevance of the result of Web service discovery and selection, such as the discovery of resources based on WS-Policy specifications using an external middleware in [15] and the NFP-based hybrid approach to Web service ranking in [16]; (iii) approaches to improve the relevance of information offered by the services using context information, such as users and their interaction with a service [12], user experiences [17], and context models for personalized Web services [13].…”

On Identifying and Reducing Irrelevant Information in Service Composition and Execution

“…Viceversa, execution engines can utilize these techniques for matching context and quality information for data requested by service consumers and offered by services. While several techniques have been developed for quality of service or context matching in service composition and execution [9,10,11], techniques to deal with context and quality of data in an integrated way are missing. The use of such techniques could increase the relevance of information about services and of data provided by services.…”

“…Most related works using QoS and context to deal with irrelevant information in SOC can be divided into two classes: (i) techniques to increase the relevance of service discovery, such as QoS-based Web service discovery [9], and (ii) techniques to improve the relevance of information offered by the services based on users and their interaction with a service [10], user experiences [17], and personalized Web services [11]. However, in both classes existing works do not deal with QoD and they do not combine QoD, QoS and context together in order to improve the relevance of the service discovery results.…”

“…User context and quality of service (QoS) have been long considered as valuable source of information for supporting Web service design, discovery and composition [10,11,9,17]. Most related works using QoS and context to deal with irrelevant information in SOC can be divided into two classes: (i) techniques to increase the relevance of service discovery, such as QoS-based Web service discovery [9], and (ii) techniques to improve the relevance of information offered by the services based on users and their interaction with a service [10], user experiences [17], and personalized Web services [11].…”