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Reflective Middleware for Location-Aware Application Adaptation

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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Today mobile computing is pervasively taking over the traditional desktop computing. Mobile devices are characterized by abrupt and un-announced changes in execution context. The applications running on these devices need to be autonomous and thus dynamically adapt according to the changing context. Existing middleware support for the typical distributed applications is strictly based on component technology. Future mobile applications require highly dynamic and adaptive services from the middleware components i.e. context-aware autonomic adaptation. Traditional middleware do not address this emerging need of wide ranges of mobile applications mainly because of their monolithic and inflexible nature. It is hypothesized that such application adaptation can be achieved through meta-level protocols that can reflectively change the state and behaviors of the system. We integrate Component Technology with our active Meta Object Protocols for enabling mobile applications to become adaptive for different contexts. This paper implements the application adaptation service of this middleware. It specializes the concept of Meta Object Protocols for autonomic adaptation of mobile applications. ActiveMOP provide robust and highly flexible framework for autonomic component development for mobile applications. It proved to be a very simple and powerful way to programmatically develop location-driven applications based on autonomic components.

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  1. Computer Engineering Dept., Kyung Hee University, 449-701, Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Uzair Ahmad & S. Y. Lee

  2. NUST Institute of Information Technology,  

    Mahrin Iqbal, Uzma Nasir & A. Ali

  3. FAST, Pakistan

    Mudeem Iqbal

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, P.O. Box, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

    Heow Pueh Lee

  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  7. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  8. OptimaNumerics Ltd, P.O. Box, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

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Ahmad, U., Lee, S.Y., Iqbal, M., Nasir, U., Ali, A., Iqbal, M. (2005). Reflective Middleware for Location-Aware Application Adaptation. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424826_112

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