— with the ubiquity of handheld devices people can now access information and conduct online transactions virtually anywhere and anytime. In such flexible but less reliable envir...
Abstract. For years, transactional protocols have been defined for particular application needs. Traditionally, when implementing a transaction service, a protocol is chosen and re...
With the advent of mobile computing and mobile services becoming more widespread and more complex, the development process of those services requires an ever more important focus o...
Several interesting research directions materialize through the convergence of mobile computing and service-oriented computing. As mobile devices keep getting smaller, cheaper and...
Context-aware applications are expected to become a remarkable application area within future mobile computing. As mobile phones form a natural tool for interaction between people...