Toward Mobile Service Computing: Opportunities and Challenges

Service computing offers an exciting paradigm for service provision and consumption. The field is now embracing new opportunities in the mobile Internet era, which is characterized by ubiquitous wireless connectivity and powerful smart devices that let users consume or provide services anytime and anywhere. In this article, the authors describe important issues related to service computing on mobile and IoT devices. They then propose application patterns and analyze the main challenges from the perspectives of both service provision and service consumption.