providing adaptive resource intensive Web services from mobile hosts needs to be done in a rather light-weight manner to allow continuous service provisioning. Processing and communication will drain the battery rapidly; hence both should be kept at a minimum. This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into offloading and migration mechanisms that facilitate provision of adaptive and...

understanding the antecedents and consequences of customer satisfaction in the mobile communications market is important. this study explores the effects of service quality, trust and perceived value on customer satisfaction, which, in turn, affects continuance intention of mobile services. service quality and customer satisfaction were measured by multiple dimensions. a research model was deve...

Mobile devices with their more and more powerful resources allow the development of mobile information systems in which services are not only provided by traditional systems but also autonomously executed and controlled in the mobile devices themselves. Services distributed on autonomous mobile devices allow both the development of cooperative applications without a back-end infrastructure and ...

The rising popularity of Mobile Computing creates new methods for accessing Web content. At the same time Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed is another new trend of constantly updating Web documents that are available on the Internet. The questions arises how to most efficiently access such new type of Web content from mobile devices. This study compares the performance of the .NET Compact Fr...

Advances in the areas of mobile computing and web services lead to new scenarios of use and innovative applications. Our approach involves mobile devices that act not only as requestors of data, but as data providers as well, providing access to their data through web services. Context plays an important role in such a scenario, when used to improve existing service discovery mechanisms, by fin...

Increasingly, many smartphones (i.e., Apple iPhone, Google Android, PalmPre, Blackberry Storm and Bold, and Nokia S60) today are equipped with standards-based Web browsers that facilitate access to and interaction with the Web. In some cases, like Nokia S60 series, the smartphones add a web application runtime environment that runs widgets. Like the desktop widgets, Web-based mobile widgets are...

Developments of mobile mashup applications have a rapid growth in the recent years. We present a development of Mobile Application Interface Description Language (MAIDL) and its applications. The language enables the development of mobile mashup applications with less programming efforts. Using our description language, composers are able to reuse existent mobile applications, Web services, and...

Application integration technology of Web Services is a challenge research area in web application area. Till now, many research works on web service have been done on the platform of desktop PC, however little work is done on the hardware platform of Java phone. By analysis on web services architecture and exploring Java mobile phone, this paper puts forward the realization architecture for mo...

Noncontact electrocardiogram (ECG) measurement technique has gained popularity these days owing to its noninvasive features and convenience in daily life use. This paper presents mobile cloud computing for a healthcare system where a noncontact ECG measurement method is employed to capture biomedical signals from users. Healthcare service is provided to continuously collect biomedical signals f...

Replication is one of the main techniques aiming to improve Web services’ (WS) quality of service (QoS) in distributed environments, including clouds and mobile devices. Service replication is a way of improving WS performance and availability by creating several copies or replicas of Web services which work in parallel or sequentially under defined circumstances. In this paper, a generalized r...