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Feasibility Evaluation of Context Distribution in Mobile Environment

Although mobile devices are rich sources of context information, the distribution of context in mobile environments is often hindered by the limited battery life, and wireless connections with low bandwidth. This paper presents two different implementations that enable context distribution in mobile environments. The first solution relies on a presence...

Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, University Of Oulu, Context Distribution, Context Information, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing

White papers 2009-03-18

Leveraging Collaboration of Peer-to-Peer and Web Services

Collaborative usage of peer-to-peer and Web Services has been recently paid a lot of attention. Proposed solutions, however, are mainly focused on enhancing service discovery by replacing centralized service registries with distributed peer-to-peer architectures. This paper presents a service environment that leverages collaboration of peer-to-peer and Web Services further. The...

Tags: Web, Collaboration, P2P, Web Service, University Of Oulu, Service Environment, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet

White papers 2008-07-02

Analysing the Mechanism of Common Ground in Collaborative Web-Based Interaction

The ideas presented in this paper are challenged especially by the certain critical questions concerning web-based interaction and the qualitative analysis of such interaction and learning. The question arises whether the students from different contexts and countries are able to reach such interaction that would lead them to educationally relevant...

Tags: Collaborative Web, Interaction, University Of Oulu, Channel Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-10-26

Analytical Model for Mobile P2P Data Management Systems

The need for efficient and scalable data management has increased in the contemporary distributed mobile and fixed networks. Sharing growing amounts of multimedia data stored in autonomous, heterogeneous and distributed equipment such as mobile devices, personal computers, enterprise servers etc. is a trend, especially considering peer-to-peer networking scenarios. This paper...

Tags: Mobile, P2P, University Of Oulu, Data Management, Peer To Peer (P2P), Storage, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-10-10

Assuring Quality and Usability in Open Source Software Development

This paper reviews literature on quality and usability assurance in Open Source Software OSS development, focusing specifically on OSS that is targeted at a large user population, which does not consist only of OSS developers anymore. In this type of OSS development, the 'Naive', non computer professional users should be...

Tags: Software, Open-source Software, University Of Oulu, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management

White papers 2007-04-17

Mobile Advertising or Mobile Marketing: A Need for a New Concept?

This paper is about clarifying the meaning of two concepts: mobile advertising and mobile marketing. The aim is to find a term that covers the essential elements of mobile commercial communication, which is sometimes referred to as mobile advertising and at other times as mobile marketing. To clarify the situation,...

Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Mobile Marketing, University Of Oulu, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-04-04

mTag - Architecture for Discovering Location Specific Mobile Web Services Using RFID and Its Evaluation With Two Case Studies

This paper introduces mTag, a distributed event-driven architecture for discovering location specific mobile web services. Service discovery is initiated by touching a fixed RFID reader with a mobile passive RFID tag attached e.g. to a phone, which results in information of available services being pushed to user's preferred device. The...

Tags: Mobile, Case Study, University Of Oulu, Service Discovery, RFID, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Marketing

White papers 2005-12-02

Lightweight Middleware Architecture for Mobile Phones

This paper suggests a lightweight middleware architecture that supports the development of ubiquitous applications and services for mobile phones. The architecture fulfills the requirements that we have found to be essential in this application area: interoperability, discoverability, location transparency, adaptability, and context-awareness. Based on this architecture, the authors have implemented...

Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, University Of Oulu, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-03-21

Bluetooth and WAP Push Based Location-Aware Mobile Advertising System

Advertising on mobile devices has large potential due to the very personal and intimate nature of the devices and high targeting possibilities. This paper introduces a novel B-MAD system for delivering permission-based location-aware mobile advertisements to mobile phones using Bluetooth positioning and Wireless Application Protocol WAP Push. The paper presents...

Tags: Aware, Advertisement, Mobile, University Of Oulu, Advertising & Promotion, WAP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing

White papers 2004-03-24