A Middleware Supporting Adaptive and Location-aware Mobile Collaboration
Marcelo Malcher, Juliana Maria Aquino, Hubert Fonseca, Lincoln David, ALLAN ALVES VALERIANO, Markus Endler · 2006
Mobile Applications with location awareness allow mobile users to communicate and share different sorts of location-based information among themselves, such as the current position of other users or geo-referenced data. Although many of such mobile collaboration applications potentially share a good amount of functionality, most of them are developed from scratch, are monolithic and are tailored to specific mobile platforms,, which limit their applicability. This paper presents a client middleware architecture which supports dynamic deployment and composition of components for context- and location awareness, and common collaboration services. We also present some prototype map-based and location-aware applications which we have implemented on the top of our middleware services.