A Preference Profile for Automating Web Services Conversation in Mobile Environment

The WS-CDL (Web services choreography description language) from W3C facilitates the specification of rules to govern the ordering of message exchanges between Web services participants. The authors consider a computing environment where a mobile client interacts with a Web services provider according to a WS-CDL specification, and propose a framework through which the client can specify its preference on how conversation should take place. The presented framework allows for mobile clients to effectively cope with user and device mobility through providing a flexible means to reduce the number of exchanged messages without violating choreography requirement.