{"title":"Teleporting - Making Applications Mobile","authors":"F. Bennett, T. Richardson, A. Harter","doi":"10.1109/WMCSA.1994.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCSA.1994.36","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid emergence of mobile computers as a popular, and increasingly powerful, computing tool is presenting new challenges. This subject is already being widely addressed within the computing literature. A complementary and relatively unexplored notion ofmobility is one in which application interfaces, rather than the computer on which the applications run, are able to move. The Teleporting System developed at the Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) is a tool for experiencing such 'mobile applications'. It operates within the X Window System1 , and allows users to interact with their existing X applications at any X display within a building. The process ofcontrolling the interface to the teleporting system is very simple. This simplicity comes from the use ofan automatically maintained database ofthe location ofequipment and people within the building. This paper describes the teleporting system, what it does, and how it is used. We outline some of the issues ofmaking applications mobile that have arisen during its implementation.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133671491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revising Transaction Conceptsf or Mobile Computing","authors":"E. Pitoura, B. Bhargava","doi":"10.1109/WMCSA.1994.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCSA.1994.32","url":null,"abstract":"It is expected that in the near future millions of users will have access to on-line distributed databases through mobile computers. The restrictions imposed by the nature of the wireless medium and the resulting mobility of data consumers and data producers make traditional transaction models inadequate. In this paper, we investigate means for providing transaction support appropriate for mobile environments. Specifically, we define a model that ensures a weaker notion of consistency, accounts for mobility, and provides for recovery.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117252060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobisaic: An Information System for a Mobile Wireless Computing Environment","authors":"G. Voelker, B. Bershad","doi":"10.1109/WMCSA.1994.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCSA.1994.28","url":null,"abstract":"Mobisaic is a World Wide Web information system designed to serve users in a mobile wireless computing environment. Mobisaic extends the Web by allowing documents to both refer and react to potentially changzng contextual information, such as current location in the wireless network. Mobisaic relies on clientside processing of HTML documents that support two new concepts: Dynamic Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) and Active Documents. A dynamic URL is one whose results depend upon the state of the user's mobile context at the time it is resolved, An active document is one that automatically updates its contents in response to changes in a user's mobile context. This paper describes the design of Mobisaic, the mechanism it uses for representing a user's mobile content. and the extensions made to the syntax and function of Uniform Resource Locators and HyperText Markup Language documents to support mobility.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132498624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"W4 - The Wireless World Wide Web","authors":"J. Bartlett","doi":"10.1109/WMCSA.1994.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCSA.1994.43","url":null,"abstract":"In order to separate promises from practice in PDAs and wireless communications, we decided to try to build a wireless PDA-based client to access the World Wide Web. This paper describes our design choices and experience with W4. the Wireless WorldWide Web.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125354009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Theimer, A. Demers, K. Petersen, M. Spreitzer, D. Terry, B. Welch
{"title":"Dealing with Tentative Data Values in Disconnected Work Groups","authors":"M. Theimer, A. Demers, K. Petersen, M. Spreitzer, D. Terry, B. Welch","doi":"10.1109/WMCSA.1994.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WMCSA.1994.18","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a problem of weakly-consistent replicated data systems used in support of disconnected groups of people. The problem concerns actions and updates derived from tentative data updates that are ultimately determined to be in conflict. While some such actions and updates can be automatically resolved, many require human intervention. FurthemOre, although some file and database systems support internal conflict detection and resolution. derived actions may be external to those systems, implying that human users must ensure that proper consistency is maintained between independent components of the system. The entire problem becomes exascerbated when disconnected work groups are taken into account, where tentative data values may be seen and acted upon by multiple people.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125671083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digest of Proceedings","authors":"M. Satyanarayanan","doi":"10.1109/wmcsa.1994.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/wmcsa.1994.20","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this two-day meeting was to foster interaction between active workers in mobile computing, with a view toward cross-fertilization of ideas. Given the youth of the field, such interactions could have substantial impact on its future direction. In keeping with this goal, the conference organizers chose to have a small, informal workshop rather than a larger and more formal conference. The workshop was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS and USENIX.","PeriodicalId":143500,"journal":{"name":"1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125845356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}