Basic web services are widely being accessed from smart phones due to the advances in wireless devices and mobile communication technologies. While such mobile web service (MWS) clients are common, the thesis addresses the scope of providing web services from smart phones, thus integrating personalized mobile services into cellular enterprises and Internet. A ‘Mobile Host’ capable of providing ...

Ambient Networks will enable mobile terminals to communicate in an environments populated by several networks, devices, services and artefacts in a transparent way to the final user. In these scenarios, one way of implementing services uses web service architecture. So it is important to study how these mobile devices will integrate efficiently to access web services. Because of the reduced cap...

--Adapting present Web services to the mobile environment has raised new Quality of Service (QoS) challenges for both service provider and requester. In a mobile Web services (MWS) scenario, a successful service invocation will depend on (1) service application (2) condition of mobile network and (3) capabilities of mobile device. Hence, from a client perspective, the availability of a service ...

The advancements made in terms of the capabilities of mobile devices have shifted the interest of service engineering towards frameworks that are able to deliver applications rapidly and efficiently. The development of services that can be fully functional in mobile environments and operable on a variety of devices is an important and complex task for the research community. In this work, we pr...

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...