HYBRID APPLICATION SUPPORT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Volker Gruhn, Malte Hülder

2005

Abstract

The wide-spread presence of wireless networks and the availability of mobile devices has enabled the development of mobile applications that take us a step closer to accomplishing Weiser’s vision of ubiquitous computing (Weiser, 1991). Unfortunately however, network connectivity is still not given anywhere and at any time. To increase the benefit of mobile applications, the next logical step is to provide support for an offline modethat allows to continuously work with an application, even when the device is not connected to a network. In this paper typical problems of replicating data are explained, possible solutions are discussed and two architectural patterns that could be used to implement hybrid support are illustrated.

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Gruhn V. and Hülder M. (2005). HYBRID APPLICATION SUPPORT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 232-237. DOI: 10.5220/0002522802320237


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Volker Gruhn and Malte Hülder},
title={HYBRID APPLICATION SUPPORT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={232-237},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002522802320237},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - HYBRID APPLICATION SUPPORT FOR MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Gruhn V.
AU - Hülder M.
PY - 2005
SP - 232
EP - 237
DO - 10.5220/0002522802320237