Description:
A groundbreaking work, this book translates pioneering concepts into practical information on the latest advances in Context-Aware Web Services, ie. mobile Internet applications that can read geographical locations and adjust output accordingly. It offers a comprehensive and systematic treatment of methodologies, along with various ways to model services to specifications. It discusses architectures including infrastructures, frameworks and standards, technologies such as semantic Web, database usage, and artificial intelligence. It provides useful case studies, and includes relevant datasets, and replicable evaluation testbeds.