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A mobile-based solution for supporting end-users in the composition of services

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Currently, technologies and applications evolve to create eco-systems made up of a myriad of heterogeneous and distributed services that are accessible anytime and anywhere. Even though these services can be used individually, it is their coordinated and combined usage what provide an added value to end-users. In addition, user’s wide adoption of mobile devices for daily activities have fostered a shift in the role played by end-users towards Internet data and services. However, existing solutions to service composition are not targeted to ordinary end-users. More easy-to-use tools have to be offered to end-users to make sure that they are successfully accepted and used by them. To this end, the work presented in this paper supports end-users in the creation of service compositions by using mobile devices. We present a Domain Specific Visual Language (DSVL) for end-users that allows them to create service compositions. A tool specifically designed for mobile devices supports this DSVL.

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  1. Open Data is an initiative with the aim of making free and available certain data to anyone with the purpose of using, modifying, and sharing it.

  2. Both versions can be accessed from the download section of the EUCalipTool web page at https://tatami.dsic.upv.es/eucaliptool/

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This work has been developed with the support of MINECO under the project SMART ADAPT TIN2013-42981-P and co-financed with ERDF.

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    Pedro Valderas, Victoria Torres, Ignacio Mansanet & Vicente Pelechano

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Valderas, P., Torres, V., Mansanet, I. et al. A mobile-based solution for supporting end-users in the composition of services. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 16315–16345 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3910-4

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