Article
| Authors | Christian P. Kunze, Sonja Zaplata, Winfried Lamersdorf |
| Title | Mobile Processes: Enhancing Cooperation in Distributed Mobile Environments |
| Published in | Journal of Computers |
| Publisher | Academy Publisher Oulu, Finland |
| Medium | Volume 2 Number 1 |
| Date | February 2007 |
| Pages | 1-11 |
| Note | ISSN : 1796-203X |
| Abstract | Currently, context awareness is one of the main trends in distributed mobile computing environments. Against this background, the demand for more complex and additionally long-term mobile applications increases continuously. Nevertheless, most current available mobile applications as well as their supporting middleware platforms are still relatively monolithic and closed systems, concentrating on only short-term activities. As a consequence, most present appliances are still restricted to rather simple tasks and are therefore rather insufficient for more complex ones which consist of sequences of related long-term activities tied together in respective application-oriented processes.
In order to overcome the resource and capability restrictions of mobile environments, such application processes may profit from, e.g., cooperation between devices
in the mobile vicinity a fact which is hardly supported by existing systems.
Therefore, this paper introduces a concept for integrating explicit support for mobile processes into mobile system infrastructures and for distributing their execution over different nodes in the network. Additionally, a corresponding middleware platform for context-aware and cooperative mobile applications is proposed. This framework has been designed and realized in the context of project DEMAC (Distributed Environment for Mobility-Aware Computing) which supports such migrating processes and helps to execute them under the restrictions imposed by realistic mobile applications. In particular, this paper proposes a corresponding process description language and an execution model for such mobile (business) processes. Online-Ref: JCP 2007 |
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