Developing a mobile Web site represents an opportunity to reach a large part of the Web audience for an organization. It is also a challenge as Web engineers have to follow specific guidelines to make the mobile Web site usable. Nowadays, most mobile Web sites are not usable to varying degrees. Supporting Web engineers in their quest for mobile Web usability requires a Mobile Web Usability Stan...

Since mobile and internet penetration is highly increasing all over the world and these technological advancements of mobile devices are changing every time, most of people are using their mobile devices for their day to day transactions, business etc., and access services from the internet. Today, lot of search engines are available, these search engines will dump information abundantly. Peopl...

The requirement for ubiquitous service access in wireless environments presents a great challenge in light of well-known problems like high error rate and frequent disconnections. In order to satisfy this requirement, we propose the integration of two modern service technologies: Web Services and Mobile Agents. This integration allows wireless users to access and invoke semantically enriched We...

QoS issues will play an important role for the success of Web services. With the increasing number of mobile devices consuming Web services, specific QoS mechanisms are required for the efficient use of Web services. We introduce our Web service QoS framework that is designed for QoS-aware service specification, discovery, selection, and invocation of Web services. Applying the framework enable...

The rapid growth of the mobile devices market and the increasing requirements of mobile users augment the need to develop Web Service clients that could be deployed and run on both mobile and desktop devices. Different developers attempt to address this heterogeneity requirement and provide solutions that simplify and automate the development of device-aware services. This chapter proposes a Mo...

It is now feasible to host Web Services on a mobile device due to the advances in cellular devices and mobile communication technologies. However, the reliability, usability and responsiveness of the Mobile Hosts depend on various factors including the characteristics of available network, computational resources, and better means of searching the services provided by them. P2P enhances the ado...

Service composition enables customizable services to be provided to the service consumers. Since the capabilities and the performances of mobile devices (e.g., smart phone, PDA, handheld media player) have improved, a mobile device can be utilized to interact with external mobile service providers towards providing composite Web service to remote clients. Existing approaches on mobile-hosted se...

Several interesting research directions materialize through the convergence of mobile computing and service-oriented computing. As mobile devices keep getting smaller, cheaper and more sophisticated, their use is becoming a commodity. We envision future scenarios that involve mobile devices acting not only as requestors, but as providers of data as well. In order to hide the heterogeneous natur...

The emergence of Web services has created unprecedented opportunities for organizations to establish more agile and versatile collaborations. As mobile computing becoming a standard of modern life, Web service coordination in mobile wireless environment brings new technology challenge. This paper presents a new service coordination framework based on mobile agents. By mobile agents’ melting and...