Adaptable Service Composition for Intelligent Logistics: A Middleware Approach

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in using Internet of Things (IoT), which facilitates and simultaneously raises challenges for the intelligent logistics. The real-world devices can provide their functionality as Web services. However, because of the dynamicity and heterogeneity of the target networking environment, the services offered by IoT resources cannot be composed by simply extending existing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches. For a logistics service, it may need the integration of a number of real-world services, which is a user-centric and environment-aware composition process. In this paper, we propose a middleware approach to solve the logistics service composition in IoT, where a decentralized coordination mechanism is used to monitor the component services with few resources efficiently. Through a set of experiments, the effectiveness and robustness of our approach are evaluated.

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