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Web Service Composition on Smartphones: The Challenges and a Survey of Solutions

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Today, smartphones are capable of hosting a large variety of applications as clients for the classical as well as service-based business applications. They can also be envisaged for composing and hosting service-based thick client applications aiming at exploiting users’ creativity and resolving mobile connectivity challenges, respectively. However, the challenges in input mechanisms, storage, and screen size of smartphones all limit the operations of Web service composition. These challenges can be addressed through a criteria-based selection process of appropriate Web service and associated technologies. Accordingly, the REST services, semi-automatic service composition with Web 2.0 technologies (HTML5, and JavaScript APIs), JSON-based messaging and data serialization format, as well as the cross-platform mobile client application development approach are found more suitable for composing Web services on the constrained smartphone. All together, they constitute a stack of appropriate technologies to implement resource-oriented architecture on the smartphone.

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    https://www.android-ide.com/.

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    http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/.

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    http://ode.apache.org/.

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    http://json-schema.org/.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, London, UK

    Gebremariam Mesfin & Gheorghita Ghinea

  2. Mobile Technology Laboratory, Department of Technology, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway

    Tor-Morten Grønli

  3. School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

    Muhammad Younas

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  2. University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom

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  3. Brunel University London, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

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Mesfin, G., Ghinea, G., Grønli, TM., Younas, M. (2018). Web Service Composition on Smartphones: The Challenges and a Survey of Solutions. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Ghinea, G., Catalan Cid, M. (eds) Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems. MobiWIS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10995. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97163-6_11

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