Handbook of Mobile Systems Applications and Services

BUILDING BLOCKS FOR MOBILE SERVICES ARCHITECTURE
Service-Oriented Architecture for Mobile Services; Hong-Linh Truong and Schahram Dustdar
Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Classifications, Considerations, and Challenges; Jian Zhu, Mohamma d Oliya, and Hung Keng Pung
Interactive Context-Aware Services for Mobile Devices; Anala Aniruddha Pandit and Anup Kumar
Mobile Data Services with Location Awareness and Event Detection in Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks; Liang Hong, Yafeng Wu, and Sang H. Son
Service Collaboration Protocols in Mobile Systems; Jingli Li and Bin Xie
Mobile Agents for Mobile Services; Ratan K. Ghosh

MIDDLEWARE FOR MOBILE SERVICES
Middleware for Mobile and Pervasive Services; Antoine B. Bagula, Mieso K. Denko, and M. Zennaro
Context-Aware Middleware for Supporting Mobile Applications and Services; Wenwei Xue and Hung Keng Pung
Interoperability across Technologies for Mobile Services; Anup Kumar, M. Iyad Alkhayat, Bin Xie, and Sanjuli Agarwal
Mobility and Middleware: Enabling Ubiquitous Quality of Service for Mobile Services; Bing He, Bin Xie, and Sanjuli Agarwal
Middleware Systems Architecture for Distributed Web Service Workflow Coordination; Janaka Balasooriya, Sushil K. Prasad, and Shamkant B. Navathe
Development and Implementation of Mobile Services in Mobile Platforms; Yingbing Yu, Bin Xie, and Sanjuli Agarwal
Security and Applications of Mobile Services Security, Privacy, and Authorization for Mobile Services; Robert Kelley, Anup Kumar, and Bin Xie
GEO-PRIVACY: Enforcing Privacy Policies Considering User Location; Matthias Farwick, Berthold Agreiter, Basel Katt, Thomas Trojer, and Patrick C. K. Hung
Service-Based Connectivity for Wireless Systems; Abraham George
Mobile Access to Printed Texts for People Who are Blind or Visually Impaired; A. S. Shaik and M. Yeasin

Index

Biography

About the Editors: Dr. Anup Kumar completed his PhD from NCSU and is currently a professor of CECS Department at the University of Louisville and the director of Mobile Information Network and Distributed Systems (MINDS) Lab. His research interests include wireless and mobile systems, routing in adhoc and sensor networks, distributed algorithm implementation, QoS-based Web services, seamless mobile computing environment, and wireless content delivery over the Internet. He has been PI and Co-PI of several federal grants funded by National Science Foundation, Department of Treasury, Kentucky Science Foundation, Department of Hometown Security, etc. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He is also the associate editor of the Internal Journal of Web Services Research and International Society of Computers and their Application Journal. He was a member of IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program (2006-2008). In GLOBECOM-2010, he had organized the Cloud Computing Forum and has given tutorials on Cloud Computing at CyberC-2010, ICCNT-2010, and SCC-2009. He is currently serving on the organizing committees of many international conferences. He was the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Simulation (TCSIM) (2004-2007). He has published and presented over 175 papers. Some of his papers have appeared in ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, several IEEE Transactions, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, etc. He was the associate editor of the International Journal of Engineering Design and Automation (1995-1998). He has served on many conference programs and organizing committees such as CyberC-2009, MASS-2008, SCC-2008, ICWS-2008, IEEE ISCC 2007, IEEE ICSW-2006, IEEE MASS-2005, IEEE SCC-2005, IEEE ICWS-2005, CIT-2005, IEEE MASCOTS, and ADCOM '97