Mobile Process Description and Execution

Abstract. Mobile devices are increasingly aware of their respective locations and vicinity and tend to communicate rather loosely with each other; therefore asynchronous communication paradigms are used predominately so far for corresponding mobile applications. However, while such communication mechanisms are suitable for simple activities, they may become insufficient for more complex tasks which consist of longer sequences of related activities tied together in application-oriented processes. This is of particular importance if the resulting operating sequence spans several mobile devices in frequently changing vicinities. Therefore, the work presented here provides a concept for integrating explicit support for such mobile processes into mobile system infrastructures and for distributing their execution over different nodes in the network. For this purpose, a corresponding middleware platform (extension) for context-aware mobile applications is proposed. It supports such migrating ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: DAIS
• Authors: Christian P. Kunze, Sonja Zaplata, Winfried Lamersdorf
• Keywords: Context-aware Mobile Applications, DAIS 2006, DAIS 2007, Mobile Applications, Mobile Devices