Demonstration of a Cellular Phone Application Based on Context-Aware Group Formation

In this demonstration, we present cellular phone applications developed on top of our middleware, and show the usefulness of the proposed group formation mechanism based on user’s context and group communication. Our middleware allows application programmers to efficiently develop cooperative applications consisting of a large number of cell phone terminals. To cope with several restrictions of cellular phones, our middleware allows application software to be executed separately on a server and user terminals. Group communication is implemented as interprocess communication on the server, and only the userinterface parts are executed on the cellular phones.