PolyConstraints: a design pattern for flexible collaboration in heterogeneous mobile environments

In mobile collaborative applications, collaborating agents can move across heterogeneous networks. The collaborating agents also keep changing their roles depending on the work to be performed at that time. In such situations, a simple and flexible handling of the transition between heterogeneous environments and roles is required. This paper proposes PolyConstraints, a design pattern to handle the generic problem of transitions across multiple network environments and roles