This paper presents a cooperative location-based game for the elderly with the use of tablets equipped with mobile application. The game was designed to tackle at once several crucial topics related to the issue of aging, namely the social inclusion, education in the field of modern technology, motivation for learning as well as physical activity. Mixed-aged teams consisting of two players: a j...

Mobile technologies are growing significantly in past few years. Many new features and enhancement have implemented in mobile technologies in both software and hardware aspects. Nowadays, cell phones are not just only use for making calls or sending text messages, however, technologies behind mobile phones expanded vastly which facilitate them to offer various types of services. Location-based ...

The management of resources in the grid environments is complex as they are heterogeneous and geographically distributed. This paper proposes an effective resource management using the mobile agent method among distributed resources. In this paper, we discuss a Mobile-Agent-Based Grid Resource Management Model (MGRMM). In this model, resources will be deployed like commodity exchange and the te...

Location Based Services are a key driver in today's telecom market, even if the power of Location Based Services is not nearly exhausted in nowadays telecom systems. To build intuitive Location Based Services for mobile handsets one success factor is to cover a broad range of mobile handsets available on the market and to make the services context aware. Within the EUREKA project MyMobileWeb we...

Individual location of users is an enabling factor in a variety of mobile applications, such as location-based services (LBS) and participatory sensing. LBS provide users with valuable information that is relevant to their geospatial context, whereas participatory sensing enables gathering of geo-referenced data through sensorequipped mobile phones. In all of these applications, the users’ loca...

Mobile marketing offers great opportunities for businesses. Marketing activities supported by mobile devices allow companies to directly communicate with their consumers without time or location barriers. However, some areas of mobile marketing still need further investigation. Especially, the topic of advertising via mobile devices is of major interest. It addresses consumers with individualiz...