Tony O’Donnell, Stephen Higel, Aoife Brady, Vincent Wade

Towards a Natural Interface to Adaptive Service Composition

Knowledge and Data Engineering Group
Department of Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin

As computers become ubiquitous in our every day lives, providing a means for true user empowerment will become crucial. Techniques which allow dynamic reuse and composition of existing pieces of networked software (services) can provide a key solution to this problem. However the task of bridging the gap between user capability and the complexities of service composition provides a number of interesting research directions. This paper proposes an architecture for coupling an adaptive and semi-automated service composition system with a natural interface system, examined in the context of a university with a wireless network. The goal of this architecture is to assist in bringing a simplified but ultimately more powerful computing experience to the end user.