The reusability of services is a cornerstone of the Service-Oriented Architecture design paradigm as it leads to a reduction in the costs associated with software development, integration and maintenance. However, reusability is difficult to achieve in practice as services are either too generic or overspecified for the tasks they are required to complete. This paper presents our work in defini...

When using context information for the customization of mobile applications, privacy issues are important as users want to limit the amount of context information that is given to service providers. Therefore, this paper distinguishes between public context that the user shares with the service provider and private context that can only be used on the mobile device for the customization of mobi...

Multi-tenancy is one of the most important concepts for any Software as a Service (SaaS) application. Multi-tenant SaaS application serves a large number of tenants with one single application instance. Complex SaaS application that serves significant number of tenants could have a huge number of customizations with complicated relationships, which increases the customization complexity and red...

Manufacturers today compete to offer not only products, but products accompanied by services, which are referred as product-service systems (PSSs). PSS mass customization is defined the production of and services meet needs individual customers with near-mass-production efficiency. In context environment, overwhelmed a plethora previously customized variants. As result, finding variant that pre...

Traditional software applications are typically customized before being delivered to a client. This customization was a paid service delivered by software development organisations. With the growing demand of applications delivered with a SaaS model, software development organisations are increasingly responding with the migration of traditional applications to a multi-tenant SaaS deployment mo...

Making the customers most preferable and building consumer centric structured models lead to the business process profitable. This paper mainly focuses on increasing customization features of service based business processes with the knowledge of existing web services. We present customization by a new Web Ontology Language (OWL) based on the semantic markup language for web based information. ...

Traditional service composition approaches face the significant challenge of how to deal with massive individualized requirements. Such challenges include how to reach a tradeoff between one generalized solution and multiple customized ones and how to balance the costs and benefits of a composition solution(s). Service network is a feasible method to cope with these challenges by interconnectin...

Product-Service System (PSS) models offer an integrated service solution to create value for businesses. In the high-value manufacturing sector, creation maintaining market competitiveness and improving customer satisfaction is a challenging task. Designing effective PSS depends on service, product requirements constraints. Thereby, contract decisions can be significantly influenced by customer...