Publikation
A Survey of Software Infrastructures and Frameworks for Ubiquitous Computing
Christoph Endres; Andreas Butz; Asa MacWilliams
In: Mobile Information Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages 41-80, IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1/2005.
Zusammenfassung
In this survey, we discuss 29 software infrastructures and frameworks which support the
construction of distributed interactive systems. They range from small projects with one
implemented prototype to large scale research efforts, and they come from the fields of Augmented Reality (AR), Intelligent Environments, and Distributed Mobile Systems. In their
own way, they can all be used to implement various aspects of the ubiquitous computing
vision as described by Mark Weiser.
This survey is meant as a starting point for new projects, in order to choose an existing
infrastructure for reuse, or to get an overview before designing a new one. It tries to provide
a systematic, relatively broad (and necessarily not very deep) overview, while pointing to
relevant literature for in-depth study of the systems discussed.