Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts

✍ Scribed by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha, Fernando Moreira

Publisher: IGI Global snippet
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 1435
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Mobility and Computing have experienced an amazing evolution during the last decade, impacting business, economy, and society, enabling new organizational models, new ways of working, new inter-organizational dynamics, increased flexibility, efficiency, and effectiveness in all sectors of activity.The Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and trends related to this explosive range of new developments and applications, in constant evolution, and impacting every organization and society as a whole. This two volume handbook supports post-graduate students, teachers, and researchers, as well as IT professionals and managers. It is a valuable addition to any research collection.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 15
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 28
Foreword......Page 61
Preface......Page 64
Acknowledgment......Page 86
Section 1 Mobile Technologies
......Page 87
Evaluating the Context Aware Browser......Page 88
Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks......Page 103
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks......Page 118
Convergence of Wireless Technologies in Consolidating E-Government Applications in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 135
Process Innovation with Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Technologies in Manufacturing SMEs......Page 152
Providing Ubiquitous Access to Synthetic Sign Language Contents over Multiple Platforms......Page 170
The impact of MIMO Communication on Non-Frequency Selective Channels Performance......Page 187
Node Localization in Ad-hoc Networks......Page 202
Wireless and Mobile Technologies Improving Diabetes Self-Management......Page 223
Adaptive Multicarrier Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Combined with Channel Coding......Page 244
Key Adoption Challenges and Issues of B2B E-Commerce in the Healthcare Sector......Page 262
A Pervasive Polling Secret-Sharing Based Access Control Protocol for Sensitive Information......Page 275
Mobile Location-Based Recommender......Page 290
Success Cases for Mobile Devices in a Real Universitary Scenario......Page 303
Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 324
M-English – Podcast......Page 337
Public Safety Networks......Page 354
Mobile Applications as Mobile Learning and Performance Support Tools in Psychotherapy Activities......Page 372
CampusLocator......Page 385
The Future of WiMAX......Page 401
Determinants of Loyalty Intention in Portuguese Mobile Market......Page 414
Mobile Agents......Page 430
Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks......Page 443
Monitoring the Learning Process through the use of Mobile Devices......Page 455
The Making of Nomadic Work......Page 468
I-Gate......Page 484
Connector......Page 501
Providing VoIP and IPTV Services in WLANs......Page 513
SIe-Health, e-Health Information System......Page 532
Combining Location Tracking and RFID Tagging toward an Improved Research Infrastructure......Page 546
Model and Infrastructure for Communications in Context-Aware Services......Page 559
Network Mobility and Mobile Applications Development......Page 574
Building Mobile Sensor Networks Using Smartphones and Web Services......Page 589
Technologies to Improve the Quality of Handovers......Page 609
Making Location-Aware Computing Working Accurately in Smart Spaces......Page 626
User Pro-Activities Based on Context History......Page 645
Section 2 Emerging Technologies
......Page 662
Research Challenge of Locally Computed Ubiquitous Data Mining......Page 663
Emerging Wireless Networks for Social Applications......Page 682
An Approach to Mobile Grid Platforms for the Development and Support of Complex Ubiquitous Applications......Page 704
Towards a Programming Model for Ubiquitous Computing......Page 721
An Agent-Based Operational Virtual Enterprise Framework enabled by RFID......Page 736
Ontological Dimensions of Semantic Mobile Web 2.0......Page 754
Unobtrusive Interaction with Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Systems through Kinetic User Interfaces......Page 776
Impact of Advances on Computing and Communication Systems in Automotive Testing......Page 790
RFID and NFC in the Future of Mobile Computing......Page 806
A Multi-Loop Development Process for a Wearable Computing System in Autonomous Logistics......Page 825
Section 3 Critical Success Factors
......Page 846
Collaboration within Social Dimension of Computing......Page 847
Critical Factors in Defining the Mobile Learning Model......Page 861
Critical Human Factors on Mobile Applications for Tourism and Entertainment......Page 880
Internet Surveys......Page 892
Evolvable Production Systems......Page 908
Section 4 New Business Models
......Page 923
Viable Business Models for M-Commerce......Page 924
A Service-Based Framework to Model Mobile Enterprise Architectures......Page 940
Research-Based Insights Inform Change in IBM M-Learning Strategy......Page 958
Location Based E-commerce System......Page 968
Section 5 Security
......Page 980
Overview of Security Issues in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks......Page 981
Modelling of Location-Aware Access Control Rules......Page 999
Secure Techniques for Remote Reconfiguration of Wireless Embedded Systems......Page 1017
Secure Routing and Mobility in Future IP Networks......Page 1039
Section 6 Applications, Surveys and Case Studies
......Page 1060
Evaluation of a Mobile Platform to Support Collaborative Learning......Page 1061
Power Issues and Energy Scavenging in Mobile Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks......Page 1081
A Low Cost Wireless Sensors Network with Low-Complexity and Fast-Prototyping......Page 1108
Unreliable Failure Detectors for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks......Page 1126
Mission-Aware Adaptive Communication for Collaborative Mobile Entities......Page 1143
OntoHealth......Page 1164
Adoption of Mobile and Information Technology in an Energy Utility in Brazil......Page 1178
Infrastructures for Development of Context-Aware Mobile Applications......Page 1191
A Practice Perspective on Transforming Mobile Work......Page 1206
Data Replication Support for Collaboration in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments......Page 1219
Providing Outdoor and Indoor Ubiquity with WLANs......Page 1242
In-TIC for Mobile Devices......Page 1256
New Ways to Buy and Sell......Page 1269
Broadcast Quality Video Contribution in Mobility......Page 1286
Mobile Device Selection in Higher Education......Page 1300
Design of Wearable Computing Systems for Future Industrial Environments......Page 1313
Extending the Scope of eID Technology......Page 1333
Mobility and Connectivity......Page 1349
About the Contributors......Page 1372
Index......Page 1416

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