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A platform supporting coordinated adaptation in mobile systems

Efstratiou, Christos, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith (2002) A platform supporting coordinated adaptation in mobile systems. In: Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. . pp. 128-137. IEEE ISBN 0-7695-1647-5. (doi:10.1109/MCSA.2002.1017492) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:38815)

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Abstract

Mobile environments are highly dynamic, characterised by frequent and sudden changes in resource availability. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of adapting their behaviour to ensure they continue to offer the best possible level of service to the user. Our experience of developing such applications has led us to believe that existing mobile middleware platforms fail to consider adaptive applications on a host as an ensemble of entities competing for the same resources; instead, focusing on the requirements of each application in isolation. A new approach is required which offers the mechanisms to support coordination of the adaptive behaviour of multiple applications in order to achieve a common goal. We present a platform designed to meet this objective. Our platform is based on the notion of the definition of system-wide flexible adaptation policies written using a form of Kowalsky's (1992) event calculus, that may be adapted according to user needs. Moreover, we also believe that by using our approach it will soon be possible to identify and resolve conflicts caused by the need to adapt to multiple contextual triggers.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
DOI/Identification number: 10.1109/MCSA.2002.1017492
Uncontrolled keywords: middleware; adaptive systems; mobile computing; availability; calculus; bandwidth; computer science; application software; quality of service; specification languages
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Christos Efstratiou
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2014 14:22 UTC
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2022 15:36 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/38815 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Efstratiou, Christos.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6288-9579
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