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Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems

Publication year: 2005

ISBN: 978-3-540-30188-2

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Over recent years most business processes have changed in various dimensions (e. g. , ?exibility, interconnectivity, coordination style, autonomy) due to market conditions, organizational models, and usage scenarios of information systems. Frequently, inf- mationisrelocatedwithinageographicallydistributedsystemaccordingtorulesthatare only seldom de?ned as a well-codi?ed business process. This creates the need for a so- ware infrastructure that enables ubiquitous mobile and collaboration systems (UMICS). The anywhere/anytime/any means paradigm is becoming the major challenge in conceiving, designing, and releasing next-generation information systems. New te- nologies, like wi-? networks and 3rd-generation mobile phones, are offering the infr- tructure to conceive of information systems as ubiquitous information systems, that is, systems that are accessible from anywhere, at any time, and with any device


Subject: Computer Science, CSCW, Monitor, Processing, Ubiquitous Computing, ad-hoc networks, algorithms, architecture, computer supported collaboration, coordination, eHome services, mobile computing, mobile environments, modeling, web services, workflow management