Nowadays, cultural heritage environments, like museums, archaeological sites, cultural heritage cities, city authorities, etc, select to disseminate and present the artefacts and relevant content that they have gathered and preserved for years not only via traditional exhibitions but also through the web and multimedia applications. The aggregated content is extensive both in topics and in dept...

Grid and Cloud computing are well known topics, and currently one of the focus of many research and commercial projects. Nevertheless, the transparent access to Grid facilities from mobile devices (like PDAs or smartphones) is normally out of the scope of those initiatives, taking into account the intrinsic limitations of such devices: screen size and resolution, storage capacity, computational...

With the rise of mobile devices like cellphones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in the last years, the demand for specialized mobile solutions grows. Newly defined protocols like WAP or i-Mode can be used to adapt Internet appearances to mobile devices. However, it is often an elaborate work to achieve these adaptions as almost all pages have to be rewritten. This paper shows an approach...

background: people who use home blood glucose monitors may use their mobile phones in the close vicinity of medical devices. this study is aimed at investigating the effect of the signal strength of 900 mhz gsm mobile phones on the accuracy of home blood glucose monitors. methods: sixty non-diabetic volunteer individuals aged 21 - 28 years participated in this study. blood samples were analyzed...

Mobile computing and communication develops into an important factor in business, but it is accompanied with new security threats. The main problem lies on the one hand in the heterogeneity, dynamics and scarcity of the resources and on the other hand in the additional information like user location. In this paper, we investigate some issues concerning security of mobile computing systems, whic...

Mobile agents represent a promising technology for the development of Internet applications. However, mobile computational entities introduce peculiar problems w.r.t. the coordination of the application components. The paper outlines the advantages of Linda-like coordination models, and shows how a programmable coordination model based on reactive tuple spaces can provide further desirable feat...

The project MUMMY funded by the European Commission develops means to improve the efficiency of mobile business processes through mobile, personalized knowledge management. MUMMY approaches the challenges of modern mobile work processes. To do so, it takes advantages of latest achievements in mobile connectivity and its capabilities (like “always on-line” high bandwidth personalization ubiquity...

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...