Geo Philips Kuravakal

Mobile devices use wireless networks that have limited range. Therefore, they may not always be connected to a network. This kind of intermittent connectivity in mobile devices has been one of the factors inhibiting enterprise-level adoption of pervasive mobile applications. Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) deals with this problem. The challenge that mobile application developers face today is to develop applications that will let users interact uniformly with the application regardless of the connection status. In the recent past, Web Services have appeared as a key technology for mobility with support from leading mobile platforms. However, leveraging Web Services for occasionally connected mobility applications falls flat because of a lack of reliability. In t... (more)

Inducing Behavioral Adaptations Within SOA and Web Services

Web services have evolved from plain application-integration enablers to value-added stand-alone functionality providers such as getting a quote to a comprehensive business function like processing orders. Enterprises are exploiting this new revenue model by offering such business functions as services on usage basis. Information sharing instances such as Amazon's e-commerce services hav... (more)