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Title:
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DESIGNING EFFICIENT LOCATION-AWARE MIDDLEWARE FOR PERVASIVE USE IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS |
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Author(s):
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John P. T. Moore |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-62-1 |
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Editors:
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Jörg Roth and Jairo Gutiérrez |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Pervasive mobile computing, location-aware middleware |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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134 |
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Last Page:
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138 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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An important design consideration for pervasive mobile computing is allowing applications to seamlessly run in the
background. This enables, for example, an application to continually communicate with a server to exchange location
information at the same time as allowing the user to check their email. The user should be unaware that the background
task is executing. Although the mobile operating system may provide this functionality it is up to the application
designers to develop their applications with certain constraints in mind. Obvious mobile development constraints include
the limited resources of the hardware. Less obvious constraints include the nature of the communication networks used to
exchange data. In this paper we present ongoing work on the Thumbtribes project - an open source project that attempts
to provide proximity awareness to mobile applications in a way that facilitates pervasive use. |
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