Configuring RESTful Web Services for Personalized Trip Planning

Configuration theory has shown its usefulness for capturing the user's constraints and to assist her in mass customized composite components development. We bring in this paper configuration to the Web services context and provide personalized features for composite services. The process of configuring a composite Web service results on a planning-style approach that creates new Web services through combining existing ones while considering user's constraints and preferences. We propose a bottom-up reasoning approach that connects services based on configuration knowledge witch includes configuration operators and configuration rules in order to generate the configured service that cover the tourist's information need. A positive yet preliminary evaluation with tourists has been carried out and shows the usability of our approach.