A Context-Aware Service Discovery Framework Based on Mobile Agent

Service discovery approaches, which reduce the cost of discovering services while also providing ease to users, are gaining popularity. Middleware for context-aware service discovery is necessary for more dynamic and useful service discovery. This study presents a new mobile agent-based paradigm for context-aware service discovery. We characterize the concept 'context' in two ways: one from the perspective of service requesters, such as devices, locations, preferences, and activities; and the other from the perspective of Web services, like protocols for service binding, networks, devices and platforms for service execution, and so on.