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| Authors | Sonja Zaplata, Ante Vilenica, Dirk Bade, Christian P. Kunze |
| Title | Abstract User Interfaces for Mobile Processes |
| Published in | 16. Fachtagung Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS 2009) |
| Editor | Klaus David, Kurt Geihs |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin |
| Medium | Informatik aktuell |
| Organization | Gesellschaft für Informatik |
| Date | March 2009 |
| Pages | 129-140 |
| Abstract | An important focus of recent business process management systems is on the distributed, self-contained and even disconnected execution of processes involving mobile devices. Such an execution context leads to the class of mobile processes which are able to migrate between mobile and stationary devices in order to share functionalities and resources provided by the entire (mobile) environment. However, both the description and the execution of tasks which involve interactions of mobile users still require the executing device and its context to be known in advance in order to come up with a suitable user interface. Since this seems not appropriate for such decentralized and highly dynamic mobile processes, this work focuses on the integration of manual tasks on the respective ad-hoc creation of user interfaces at runtime. As an important prerequisite for that, this paper first presents an abstract and modality-independent interaction model to support the development and execution of user-centric mobile processes. Furthermore, the paper describes a prototype implementation for a corresponding system infrastructure component based on a service-oriented execution module, and, finally, shows its integration into the DEMAC (Distributed Environment for Mobility-Aware Computing) middleware. |
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| Other formats | Din 1501 |
