ContextServ Project        

A Platform for Rapid and Flexible Development of Context-Aware Web Services        

Living cells within our bodies can adapt themselves to changes in their environment. However, this is impossible for current Web services, which are largely inflexible. The proposed project explores ways to make Web services behave more like living cells: sensitive, adaptive, and context-aware.

This research will develop novel techniques aimed at simplifying the task of creating and maintaining context-aware Web services. The result of this project will be a model-driven framework where services can be described in a high-level modeling language and can be automatically transformed into executable target platforms, thus contributing significantly to both design flexibility and cost savings.

This project is sponsored by the Australian Research Council.