User-Oriented Description of Emerging Services in Ambient Systems

Abstract

Ambient intelligence aims at providing users the right services at the right time. Our solution composes software components and their services, automatically and on the fly, and makes composite services emerge from the environment. An important question is their intelligible presentation to an average user (not a service composition expert). Our approach consists in the automatic generation of user-oriented descriptions from unit descriptions of components and services. For that, we propose a domain-specific language for component and service descriptions and a combining method.