Mobile adaptive applications for ubiquitous collaboration in heterogeneous environments

Mobile teamwork applications are often deployed in heterogeneous environments with various devices and connections. To support a broad variety of platforms for mobile teamwork in heterogeneous environments, this paper presents a framework for development of applications adaptive to the client\´s computing platform. The framework supports both shared data adaptation and user interface adaptation to user\´s preferences and display characteristics. Both shared data and the user interface are specified in two XML documents. The user interface XML document specifies the application interface by a generic "view" graph (should also specify the valid data types). Global view graph is transformed into a device-dependant view graph for individual client devices.