Emerging sensor-embedded smartphones motivated the mobile Internet of Things research. With the integrated embedded hardware and software sensor components, and mobile network technologies, smartphones are capable of providing various environmental context information via embedded mobile device-hosted Web services (MWS). MWS enhances the capability of various mobile sensing applications such as...

An Efficient Interaction Framework for Mobile Web Services Abdullah Abdullatif Almuaibid Supervising Professor: Xumin Liu, Ph.D. Having the latest technological devices is becoming more of a necessity these days rather than a luxury as it was only a decade ago. Among these advancements, the smart phone has grown in popularity significantly. This is due to a variety of reasons but it would have ...

Various Web resources and services are usually assumed to be used and accessed by human users (current Web) or by software agents on behalf of human users (emerging Semantic Web). However industry emerges also a new group of “users”, which are smart industrial devices, robots or any other objects, which can be adapted to the (Semantic) Web environment. They would need special services for e.g. ...

Location-Based Services (LBS) are services which use geographical information, combined or not with the position of the mobile terminal in order to obtain and generate useful information to the users of mobile devices. There are several initiatives in the definition of standards which aim at increasing the interoperability among location-based services. Among the main initiatives we can mention...

The expansion of the web has reached outrageous proportions with the number of web communities existing and the number of those being created daily increasing dramatically. To parallel this phenomenon is the trend nowadays of mobile phone services. One of the most representative is the case of Greece, where in a period of five years about five million people subscribed for a telephone number fo...

This paper discusses and evaluates the design and the implementation of a Community-centric Mobile Service Environment (COMSE), where all services are developed with Web technologies. The service environment is built on a distributed communication platform that is implemented using a DHT-based peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. The interaction between P2P overlay networks and Web-based services is re...