Event-based Middleware for Pervasive Computing: Foundations, Concepts, Design

Revision with unchanged content. Mobile applications running on personal devices, like smartphones, PDAs, or laptop computers, create a fascinating market for many new mobile services. Mobile commerce, location-based services, multimedia messaging, or mobile ga-ming are expected to constitute a main driving-force for technological ad-vance-ments, creating a new source of revenue for infrastructure providers and developers. Based on what we observe today, the logical next steps lead to integrated infrastructures and applications supporting "pervasive com-pu-ting". What-ever this future will look like, the basic cornerstones will (i) highly no-madic users, (ii) personalized devices running smart applications, (iii) per-va-sive smart infrastructures, and (iv) efficient communication for end-to-end in-tegration of all building blocks. This book introduces the amazing world of pervasive computing, leads step-by-step through the new design challenges for pervasive computing appli-ca-tions and identifies the key challenges for engineering middleware supporting per-vasive applications. Based on the well-known publish/subscribe paradigm it demonstrates how middleware systems can be designed to explicitly make use of "context" of users and applications. It then shows how context in-for-ma-tion can be leveraged for optimizing the efficiency of communication in-side a notification service.

Dr. Andreas Zeidler, Dipl.-Inform.He received his Diploma/Master Degree and his PhD in Computer Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt. Today he works as Software Architect, Project Manager, and Researcher in the Software Architecture Department of Corporate Research and Technologies, Siemens AG, Munich.