Location-Based Information Systems : Developing Real-Time Tracking Applications

ISBN-13: 9781439848548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 287 str.

Miguel A. Labrador;Pedro M. Wightman;Alfredo Jose Perez

Opis

The book provides a comprehensive introduction to developing location-based information systems based on GPS-enabled cellular phones. It describes all of the components needed to develop a location-based information system and provides readers with the opportunity to build an example application. Chapters cover obtaining a user's location, storing and retrieving data, communicating over a network, Java ME Web services, and visualizing data. In the theoretical chapters, the authors address location provider architectures, the hardware and software architecture of a mobile phone, the Java ME platform, and other important programming aspects for mobile phones.

Spis treści

Introduction. The Mobile Phone. The Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME). MIDlet Development. Other Important Programming Aspects. Obtaining the User’s Position. Storing and Retrieving the Data: The Database. Sending and Receiving Data: Communications. Java ME Web Services. System Administration. Data Visualization. Processing the Data. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Miguel A. Labrador is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the telecommunication industry and has published extensively in the field. Dr. Labrador is currently an editorial board member of Computer Communications and the Journal of Network and Computer Applications. He earned his Ph.D. in information science with concentration in telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alfredo J. Pérez is a member of the Location-Aware Information Systems Laboratory and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida. He is also a member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. His research interests include mobile sensor networks, location-based systems, evolutionary algorithms, and multi-objective optimization.

Pedro M. Wightman is a professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia. He is a member of the IEEE Communication Society and co-founder of CommNet, the Communication Networks Group at the University of South Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of South Florida.