Mashups: Behavior in Context(s)

The World Wide Web (WWW) has left behind the dot-com bubble and changed into something new. The move to the Internet as a platform and the shift from transaction-based Web pages to interactionbased ones opened the way to a whole new environment. Future Internet is a generative environment that fosters innovation, through an advance of technologies and a shift in how people perceive, use and interact with it. Nowadays the abilities to create new information have far exceeded the abilities to manage it. There exist a huge amount of data and potential that is still unused and undiscovered. Mashups are a new paradigm emerged from Web 2.0 that tries to empower users with some sort of freedom to tackle this huge amount of potential provided nowadays by the web. Current approaches however are still restrictive in many ways e.g. are data oriented, and platform dependent. Hence this paper introduces a new perspective on mashups. Here a mashup is seen as a plan that a user and an engine need to follow in order to achieve a desired goal. As such a mashup comprises contextual information and the necessary behavior related to the context(s) described, in order to fulfill desired goal. Subsequently a mashup is defined here as behavior in context(s).