Modeling Context-Aware and Socially-Enriched Mashups

Mashup platforms and end-user centric composition tools have become increasingly popular. Most tools provide Web interfaces and visual programming languages to create compositions. Much of the previous work has not considered compositions comprising Human Provided Services (HPS) and Software-Based Services (SBS). The authors introduce a novel HPS aware service mashup model which they call Socially Oriented Mashups (SOM). The inclusion of HPS in service mashups raises many challenges such as a QoS model that must account for human aspects and the need for flexible execution of mashups.