Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness
HUC '99 Proceedings of the 1st international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Communications of the ACM - The disappearing computer
A service-oriented middleware for building context-aware services
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Varieties of User-Centeredness
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 08
Development of a context-aware messaging system over heterogeneous wireless networks
IWCMC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Ubiquitous information management and communication
Context-aware service composition: a methodology and a case study
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Systems development in SOA environments
Unifying Human and Software Services in Web-Scale Collaborations
IEEE Internet Computing
Discovering Web Services in Search Engines
IEEE Internet Computing
Context-aware role-based access control in pervasive computing systems
Proceedings of the 13th ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
A service-oriented middleware for providing context awareness and notification
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware companion
Software as a Service: An Integration Perspective
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
Modelling situation awareness for Context-aware Decision Support
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
User identification for cross-system personalisation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Context as a dynamic construct
Human-Computer Interaction
An infrastructure approach to context-aware computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction
Capturing User Contexts: Dynamic Profiling for Information Seeking Tasks
ICSNC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Agent-based simulation of competitive and collaborative mechanisms for mobile service chains
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A Context-Aware Framework for Flowable Services
MUE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Third International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering
Automated composition of web services with the abductive event calculus
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Recommendation of similar users, resources and social networks in a Social Internetworking Scenario
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Agent-Based modeling of social complex systems
CAEPIA'05 Proceedings of the 11th Spanish association conference on Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence
SP 800-145. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
SP 800-145. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
A distributed information repository for autonomic context-aware MANETs
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
BerlinTainment: an agent-based context-aware entertainment planning system
IEEE Communications Magazine
EasySOC: Making web service outsourcing easier
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Scalable service-oriented replication with flexible consistency guarantee in the cloud
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Services are expected to be a promising way for people to use information and computing resources in our emerging ubiquitous network society and cloud computing environments. In this study, we propose a metaphoric concept called a flowable service. It is defined as a logical stream that organizes and provides circumjacent services in such a way that they are perceived by individuals to be naturally embedded in their surrounding environments. We present our view on how some of these problems, such as the flexibility, portability and interoperability of services, can be solved using flowable services in order to provide a seamless integration of diverse services in the most intuitive ''flowable'' way possible, thus achieving maximum satisfaction for both service providers and consumers while decreasing the delivery cost of the services. Recognizing the importance of the awareness of each individual's context for a smooth and accurate provision of services, we further propose a human-centric framework for context-aware flowable services, which harnesses the users' contexts to enable a pro-active support of human activities in a flexible and natural way. Owing to context-awareness, this framework can find and integrate circumjacent services that are considered needed by each individual and can create an ambient service environment that is tailored to his/her specific needs, proclivities and characteristics.