Title :
Distributed work management: an application area for mobile computing
Author_Institution :
GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Abstract :
Currently much research effort is done in the area of mobile computing, emphasizing infrastructure issues on both hardware and software. The advances in mobile technology allows to look for possible applications. We claim that asynchronous CSCW applications are especially suitable to run on such mobile equipment. In particular, we emphasize activity coordination in distributed work environments. After a description of our task manager implementation running over wide area networks, we discuss in detail the extensions that are needed to run a mobile task manager. We focus an a user driven data caching scheme, and we suggest to use both replicates and copies of data objects
Keywords :
cache storage; distributed processing; groupware; portable computers; wide area networks; activity coordination; asynchronous CSCW applications; computer supported cooperative work; data objects; distributed work environments; distributed work management; hardware; mobile computing; mobile equipment; mobile task manager; mobile technology; software; task manager implementation; user driven data caching; wide area networks; Application software; Computer network management; Data compression; Distributed computing; Energy consumption; Environmental management; Hardware; Mobile computing; Portable computers; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1995. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6930-6
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1995.375746
