We welcome our workshop attendees to a very interesting collection of discussions. We received many papers and had to limit the acceptance rate to 40those papers submitted. The papers cover a range of topics from infrastructure, service discovery, personalization, environments, security, privacy, to wireless and sensor networks, showing the scope of interests and activities represented by the P...

The announcement and discovery of network services represents one of the most important functionalities in today’s networks. In order to find and use services provided by remote systems, service management and dedicated service discovery protocols are used. These mechanisms introduce, however, additional overhead, especially in resource-constrained environments such as sensor networks. In this ...

Service-Oriented Content Adaptation (SOCA) has emerged as a potential solution to the content-device mismatch problem. One of the key problems with the SOCA scheme is that a content adaptation task can potentially be performed by multiple services. In this paper, we propose an approach to the service discovery problem for SOCA and it is demonstrated to perform well. 1 Background and Related Wor...

This work describes our implementation of a framework that allows mobile nodes in OMNeT++ simulations to be equipped with multiple radio subsystems that can be dynamically suspended and woken up. Our framework enables the simulation of wireless architectures that exploit radio hierarchies for power-efficient neighbor and service discovery and connection setup. The design is implemented as an ex...

Service discovery of state dependent services has to take workflow aspects into account. To increase the usability of a service discovery, the result list of services should be ordered with regard to the relevance of the services. Means of ordering a list of workflows due to their similarity with regard to a query are missing. In this paper different similarity measures are presented and evalua...

This paper describes a framework for automatically configuring relationships that tie together the software and hardware infrastructure components for an Internet-based service, which we also call ‘‘composing’’ the service infrastructure. Management and infrastructure software employ the framework to specify, discover, and react to changes in the infrastructure components participating in the s...

Service discovery is very important in realizing the concept of pervasive computing. Consequently, service discovery protocols must be able to work in the heterogeneous environment offered by pervasive computing. Remote service discovery in particular has not been properly achieved so far. In an attempt to remedy this we propose a new architecture for enabling typical (local) service discovery ...

In recent years a huge amount of effort and money has been invested in the area of semantic service discovery and presented approaches have become more sophisticated and mature. Nevertheless surprisingly little effort is being put into the evaluation of these approaches. We argue that the lack of established and theoretically well-founded methodologies and test beds for comparative evaluation o...

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Service discovery systems enable distributed components to find each other without prior arrangement, to express capabilities and needs, to aggregate into useful compositions, and to detect and adapt to changes. First-generation discovery systems can be categorized based on one of three underlying architectures and on choice of behaviors for discovery, monitoring, and recovery. This paper repor...