Crowdsourcing Mobile Workflows with Tweetflows Under Review for Publication

The use of mobile devices and applications (Apps) offer users ubiquitous access to arbitrary Services. In this paper, we study the applicability of established SOA concepts in mobile computing scenarios. In particular, we investigate the application of existing SOA infrastructure principles like Service registries on App stores and investigate the concept of App as a Service. Based on our findings, we introduce a lightweight flow language that is tailored to mobile Apps with regard to SOA principles. These efforts are complemented with a discussion on crowd sourcing aspects, which drive our proposed approach. We present a prototype architecture and show how our approach can be used in a real world application scenario.