Table of Contents

FUNDAMENTALS
Towards a Software Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Disappearing Computing, Roberto Saracco

Mobile Computing, Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Stefan Arbanowski, and Stephan Steglich

Wireless Technologies, Marco Chiani

Mobile Ad-Hoc Communication Issues, Hamid Harroud, Dineshbalu Balakrishnan, and Ahmed Karmouch

Infrastructure vs. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Mobility Issues and Solutions, Ling-Jyh Chen, Shanky Das, Mario Gerla, and Alok Nandan

Evolution of Application Models for Pervasive Computing, Guruduth Banavar

Mobile Middleware: Definition and Motivations, Dario Bruneo, Antonio Puliafito, and Marco Scarpa

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR MOBILE MIDDLEWARE
Name Resolution and Service Discovery on the Internet and in Ad Hoc Networks, Paal E. Engelstad and Geir Egeland

Data Synchronization, Sachin Agarwal

Uncoupling Coordination: Tuple-Based Models for Mobility, Giacomo Cabri, Luca Ferrari, Letizia Leonardi, Marco Mamei, and Franco Zambonelli

Content-Based Publish-Subscribe in a Mobile Environment, Gianpaolo Cugola, Gian Pietro Picco, and Amy L. Murphy

Code Mobility and Mobile Agents, Andrzej Bieszczad and Tony White

Proxy-Based Adaptation for Mobile Computing, Markus Endler, Hana Rubinsztejn, Ricardo Rocha, and Vagner Sacramento

Reflective Middleware, Paul Grace and Gordon Blair

Techniques for Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Services, John Keeney, Vinny Cahill, and Mads Haahr

REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES FOR MOBILE MIDDLEWARE
Naming and Discovery in Mobile Systems, Guanling Chen, Kazuhiro Minami, and David Kotz

Efficient Data Caching and Consistency Maintenance in Wireless Mobile Systems, Sajal K. Das and Mohan Kumar

Code On Demand and Code Adaptation for Mobile Computing, Francis C.M. Lau, Nalini Belaramani, Vivian W.M. Kwan, Pauline P.L. Siu, W.K. Wing, and C.L. Wang

Session Maintenance, Oliver Haase

Openness and Interoperability in Mobile Middleware, Eiko Yoneki and Jean Bacon

Trust in Pervasive Computing, Jim Parker, Anand Patwardhan, Felip Perich, Anupam Joshi, and Tim Finin

MOBILE MIDDLEWARE FOR SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY
Seamless Connectivity in Infrastructure-Based Networks, Michael E. Kounavis and Andrew T. Campbell

Peer-to-Peer Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Marco Conti, Franca Delmastro, and Giovanni Turi

Supporting Continuous Services to Roaming Clients, Ashutosh Dutta, Henning Schulzrinne, and K. Daniel Wong

Impact of Mobility on Resource Management in Wireless Networks, Majid Ghaderi and Raouf Boutaba

Seamless Consistency, Evaggelia Pitoura, George Samaras, and Can Türker

Seamless Service Access via Resource Replication, Paulo Ferreira and Luís Veiga

MOBILE MIDDLEWARE FOR LOCATION-DEPENDENT SERVICES
An Overview of the Location Management Problem for Mobile Computing Environments, Javid Taheri and Albert Y. Zomaya

Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Wireless Networks, Jieyan Fan, Dapeng Wu, Qi He, and Pradeep Khosla

Location-Based Service Differentiation, Spyros Panagiotakis and Athanassia Alonistioti

Location-Dependent Database Access, Faïza Najjar, Sean Kelley, and Margaret H. Dunham

Location-Dependent Service Accounting, Michael Georgiades, Nadeem Akhtar, Christos Politis, and Rahim Tafazolli

MOBILE MIDDLEWARE FOR CONTEXT-DEPENDENT SERVICES
Processing Context-Related Data in Mobile Environments, Yih-Farn (Robin) Chen and Rittwik Jana

Integrated Profiling of Users, Terminals, and Provisioning Environments, Alessandra Agostini, Claudio Bettini, and Daniele Riboni

QoS Aware Resource Discovery in Mobile Environments, Yun Huang, Shivajit Mohapatra, Qi Han, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian

QoS Control and Management, Xia Gao

IT-Based Open Service Delivery Platforms for Mobile Networks - From CAMEL to the IP Multimedia System, Thomas Magedanz and Muhammad Sher

Mobile Middleware and Context for Service Composition, Soraya Kouadri Mostéfaoui, Zakaria Maamar, and Nanjangud C. Narendra

Mobile Middleware for Situation-Aware Service Discovery and Coordination, Stephen S. Yau and Dazhi Huang

CURRENT EXPERIENCES AND ENVISIONED APPLICATION DOMAINS FOR SERVICES BASED ON MOBILE MIDDLEWARE
Mobile Middleware for Integration with Enterprise Applications: WebSphere Everyplace Access, David Reich

Context Middleware for Adaptive Mobile Services, Theo G. Kanter, Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Martin Jonsson, Fredrik Kilander, Wei Li, Peter Lonnqvist, and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.

Middleware Support for Autonomous Cell Phones, Nayeem Islam, Manuel Roman, and Doug Zhou

Middleware for Wearable Computing, Chandra Narayanaswami

Middleware for Mobile Entertainment Computing, Vittorio Ghini, Fabio Panzieri, and Marco Roccetti

Software Support for Application Development in Wireless Sensor Networks, Chen-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, and Chenyang Lu

Mobile Middleware for Automotive Application, Francesco Lilli

A QoS Framework for Multimedia Communication for Defense Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Raymond Paul, Waseem Sheikh, Basit Shafiq, and Arif Ghafoor

Mobile Middleware for Rescue and Emergency Scenarios, Ellen Munthe-Kaas, Ovidiu Drugan, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, Matija Puzar, Norun Sanderson, and Katrine S. Skjelsvik