Mobile Information Systems: Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility

ISBN-13: 9783540310068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 354 str.

Barbara Pernici

Opis

This book presents a framework for mobile information systems, focusing on quality of service and adaptability at all architectural levels. These levels range from adaptive applications to e-services, middleware, and infrastructural elements, as developed in the "Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems" (MAIS) project. The design models, methods, and tools developed in the project allow the realization of adaptive mobile information systems in a variety of different architectures.

Spis treści

Core Technologies for Mobile Information Systems.- Basic Concepts.- Reference Architecture and Framework.- E-Services.- Middleware and Architectural Reflection.- Enabling Technologies.- Adaptive Networks.- Data Management.- Low-Power Architectures for Mobile Systems.- Design of Mobile Information Systems.- Methods and Tools for the Development of Adaptive Applications.- Development of Services for Mobile Information Systems.- Knowledge-Based Tools for E-Service Profiling and Mining.- Applications. MultiLezi: Implementation of an Adaptive Multichannel Learning Environment.

O autorze

Barbara Pernici is full professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

Her research interests include cooperative information systems, workflow management systems, information systems modeling and design, mobile information systems, temporal databases, applications of database technology. She holds a Dr. Eng. Degree from Politecnico di Milano and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

She has published around 35 papers in international journals, including IEEE and ACM Transactions, co-edited 10 books, and published about 120 papers at international level. She is an editor of the Requirements Engineering Journal. She is chief scientist of the Italian FIRB MAIS (Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems) Project, 2002-2005. She is chair of Working Group 8.1 on Design and Evaluation of Information Systems of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).