Experience using Processes for Pervasive Applications

Pervasive Computing envisions seamless computing support for users while performing their everyday tasks. Many of these tasks are hard to capture by the notion of a single application as their requirements on computing support vary over time. To ease the development of applications for such tasks, we have designed an application model for process-oriented pervasive applications, called Sentient Processes, and a supporting middleware system implementing the flow control for processes. In this paper, we show the capabilities of the Sentient Process model to capture everyday user tasks by the example of a process supporting a student in managing his classes during a term.