A roadmap to ambient e-service

Abstract

The notion of ambient e-services is defined in this paper to identify a new scope of mobile e-services. The notable features of ambient e-services are the exhilarated linkage based on social context and significantly rapid growth of connections. We present an ambient e-service framework that characterizes ambient e-services with three dimensions (value stack, environment stack and technology stack). Several ambient e-service applications are also exemplified, which rest on the mobile peer-to-peer technology and ambient context aware sensors environments. Ambient e-services make a mobile user not only connect to dynamic ambient environments but also cooperate with other mobile users in the nearby surrounding environment, capitalizing dynamic environmental values as well as dynamic social values. We also present an Ambient e-Service Embracing Model (ASEM) framework that addresses the core elements required for fostering the growth of ambient e-services and steering the directions of future relevant research. © 2005 IEEE.