Designing a particular system using the concepts of service-oriented architecture is widely becoming a popular notion. However, one has to be careful while trying to apply the philosophy of service-oriented systems to various areas of science and technology. Service-oriented frameworks may not be a solution to every scientific and technological problem.

In this paper, the authors attempt to apply the philosophy of service-oriented frameworks to building a pervasive home application. The paper fails to provide a specific application where this framework can be effectively used. The authors seem to be more interested in explaining the abstract ideas that they may have on building a pervasive system. The amalgamation of a service-oriented system and a pervasive system should have been explained using a specific example.

The authors provide a global management architecture for an autonomous system called AutoHome. However, they fail to provide comprehensive information on how the different components of this architecture will interact with each other. Since this is a journal paper, it should have been explained using an example. To substantiate their claims, the authors could have first built a small working prototype of their architecture.

Overall, while I admire the boldness of the authors to think about the aforementioned amalgamation, I am not thoroughly convinced by the ideas presented in the paper; they sound more like pie in the sky at this stage. However, in the future, I would like to see a prototype based on the philosophy presented in the paper to substantiate the authors’ claims.