Nomadic environment are characterized by users authentication mechanisms that draws from the various types of authentication. Existing nomadic environments authentication methods does not effectively support the delegation or assignment of tasks outside of the defined environments. This development in the context of what nomadic environments were designed to achieve is a major drawback. Nomadic...

This paper presents an efficient solution for the nomadic CORBA server problem. The generic CORBA proxy platform Π2 provides efficient and transparent nomadic access to existing applications by offering a hand-over between different network types, optimized transport protocols for the wireless access, and application-specific compression. Up to now, Π2 was missing nomadic server functions. FATI...

The paper describes the goal and practice of the nomadic exhibition guide Hippie. Hippie takes into account the context of use of the nomadic system. An information system is said to be nomadic when the user has access to both his or her personal information space and to the public information space from all places independent from specific devices—for nomadic systems see (Kleinrock 1997). For ...

The paper describes the idea and the structure of a mobile information system under development in the HIPS project that allows for supporting nomadic activities. Nomadic activities are a widespread class of human activities. Many activities are distributed in time, space and social groups. In contrast to print media till now electronic information and communication media did not support nomadi...

38 Computer The Cooler the Better: New Directions in the Nomadic Age T hanks to rapid progress in microelectronics technology, a new, nomadic lifestyle has become widespread these days. People, regardless of location, enjoy greater connectivity through communication networks and intelligent electronic terminals. This nomadic lifestyle will become even more common as technology frees people from...

In emerging ubiquitous computing, related nomadic users often perform similar tasks and share the same computing infrastructure. This means that security of the shared resources is of prime importance. Frequent delegation of tasks among users must be anticipated as most nomadic environments are hectic and very dynamic. A delegation mechanism with a slightly complicated user interface will not o...

The increasingly mobile workforce, organizations’ desire to be flexible and reactive, changing organizational structure and management style, and the wide availability of enabling technologies to support nomadic computing are gradually influencing the characteristics of an organization that eventually contribute to the organization’s culture. This study attempts to investigate the cultural impa...