Distributed work management: an application area for mobile computing

Author

Busbach, Uwe

Author_Institution

GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 Jan 1995

Firstpage

34

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1995. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6930-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1995.375746

Filename

375746