Support for Dynamic Trading and Runtime Adaptability in Mobile Environments

In the business climate an increasing number of people are expected to perform complex work-related tasks while on the move. In some of these systems, the movement of the mobile user to different physical locations results in the volatility of location-dependent information. For example the answer to the question, ‘where is the nearest train station?’ changes as a mobile user roams around its environment. Therefore, a key requirement of weakly connected mobile users (that is those dialling-in over a mobile network) is the availability of dynamically updated location-dependent information and the support for runtime adaptability to reflect the frequent changes in the physical environment.