About the Book

A groundbreaking work, this collection provides both practical and pioneering information on the latest advances in Context-Aware Web Services, ie. mobile Internet applications that can read geographical locations and adjust output accordingly. Beginning with an historical overview, this unique guide offers a comprehensive and systematic treatment of methodologies, along with various ways to model services to specifications. It discusses architectures including infrastructures, frameworks and standards, technologies such as semantic Web, database usage, and artificial intelligence. It provides useful case studies, and includes relevant datasets, and replicable evaluation testbeds.