Proximity based services are location based services (LBS) in which the service adaptation depends on the comparison between a given threshold value and the distance between a use...
Lookup services are used in many Internet applications to translate a key (e.g., a file name) into an associated set of entries (e.g., the location of file copies). The key look...
Service discovery problem has recently been drawing much attention from researchers and practitioners. Jini, SLP, and UPnP are among the few emerging service discovery protocols. ...
Web service technology is one of the trend technologies in computer science now, and recently with the rapid growth of web services deployed with the same functionality, many rese...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...