Papers for Tuesday's Seminar
Robert Waters (watersr@netime.com)
Fri, 25 Apr 1997 09:48:13 -0400
We will look at these papers in class (Papers are available outside
office):
"Operating System's Issues for PDA's", Theimet, Demers, and Welch
"Multimedia Nomadic Services on Today's Hardware", Schmandt
"Dynamic Structure in Software Architectures", Magee and Kramer
Our overriding theme will be on issues of design and representation of the
services (OS and Comm) that might be necessary to support ubicomp. For
operating systems, we have the challenge of providing complex services
with
a device that is bandwidth-challenged both in peripheral and
communications
support. For multimedia nomadic services, the authors look at how best to
provide personal services such as paging, fax, telephone, etc in an
environment where the user is not stationary. Finally, for those of us
who
are software engineers, the representation of ubicomp systems that
dynamically change configurations based upon users will be a real
challenge. Our current box and arrow methods work great for static
systems, but how will we handle dynamic ones?? That's the issue the third
paper tackles.
So come to class Tuesday where the topic will be :
"Fitting 20 pounds of stuff in a 5 pound bag" or
"Everything I ever wanted to know about the PI calculus, but was afraid to
ask".
Bob