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Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development (HP Professional Series)

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Concepts of Mobile Application Development.
I highly recommend this book.
Too high level to be useful
Definitive .NET Mobile Applications Book
Objective, vendor-neutral

Mobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development (HP Professional Series)
Valentino Lee , Heather Schneider , and Robbie Schell
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Concepts of Mobile Application Development........2004-09-02

This book shows how to go for designing and developing mobile applications. This book is designed for all audiance, who are in mobile application development or would like to go for it. Person who haven't started mobile application and wants to know more about mobile technology can also go for this book.

This book cover all aspects of mobile application development starting from designing to deployment. Also cover the topic to how to prepare existing applications to support mobility. It also covers the security issue, which is very much important aspect of all application development.

This book is very good book who are taking start up project in mobile area and have very good experience in windows and webbased application. They just need to have concept or quick guide that they can find here in the book.

Overall, This is good book to have in your book shelf.

I highly recommend this book........2004-08-04

This is an excellent book for Architects, Developers, Project Managers, and anyone else who wants a detailed look at where the industry's Mobile Applications stand today.

The book covers mobile application architecture, design, development and deployment. It also discusses business objectives, the development process of mobile application projects, integrating with existing web applications, and interoping with legacy applications.

The authors do an excellent job of mixing just the right amount of high level businesses goals and low level technical information to make this book a good candidate for teams (Architects, Developers, Project Managers, etc.) to use as a starting point on first time mobile projects. It would get everyone up to speed and on the same page very quickly.

I highly recommend this book. There are few books written this well on the market. It covers everything it says it does in the editorial review, and covers it in an in-depth easy to understand manner.

Too high level to be useful.......2004-07-29

This book is primarily for architects. It's covers a broad swath of ground in generic sweeping terms. When it does touch metal it covers the development of a web application for a tablet PC, which appears as largely unchanged from what it would look like in a standard web development environment.

The books first three chapters present an introduction and a business case for mobile computing. The fourth and fifth chapters provide a very high level overview of mobile devices and their variety. An example of the level of depth is on page 72 where the author writes; "Most, if not all, mobile devices have flat screens."

Chapters seven, eight and nine cover, again at a very high level, application design for almost any thin client application. It could be web, or mobile, or whatever.

Chapter ten covers the waterfall development model. Which I found really off tangent. I thought from here we would dig down. Instead we are building another information tower about project management and requirements gathering.

Chapter eleven is a case study which is at the level of UML, data model, page flow, and use cases. Chapters twelve and thirteen are also case studies at a similar level.

To get the "Full Microsoft .NET code examples for cell phones, Pocket PCs, and Tablet PCs" you need to go to Appendix B, which is the first sign of code in the book.

Can't say I recommend this book at all. At the level this book covers mobile development it is not significantly different from web development. And for front-line coders this book provides no practical insight whatsoever. I gave it two stars because it provides some interesting facts about mobile bandwidth, and because I find the writing to be better than average. Shame that they couldn't have delved deeper into this fascinating topic.

Definitive .NET Mobile Applications Book.......2004-07-24

This book is the definitive book for mobile .NET applications.

Although the authors are very experienced programmers, from HP, I disagree with some of their opinions. For example, I think one-tier applications are more scalable than three tier applications, whereas the authors of this book think the opposite.

Given that I do not agree on everything, the book is still complete, detailed, well thought out, and beyond doubt a first-rate coverage of mobile apps. I have not read a better book on mobile applications and especially if you are a .NET programmer, you will have a difficult time finding a better book on this topic.

Aside from some architectural disagreement, I also did not like the UML sprinkled in. I HATE UML. The authors cover scenario based solutions and chose UML to do it. As much as I HATE UML, I really like the scenario based writing. Too many books just cover the same thing as the API reference. This book covers everything the documentation does not. For example, when SOAP is useful and when it should be avoided.

I really believe that after reading the book, I will design better mobile applications and will have a broader view of mobile applications. Given that many mobile application projects fail or leave the project sponsor unsatisfied, this excellent book should be a definite read.

It's also nice to see a mobile application book that really focuses on .NET. There are awesome facilities in .NET that blow away Java/J2EE. This book points them out.

The book is not code heavy (after all that is obvious). Instead the book covers hard questions, like whether to use a data access layer or not and how to write a good one.

Objective, vendor-neutral.......2004-05-03

To a programmer, an IDE means an Integrated Development Environment. An environment in which you can program, with a lot of supporting utilities. Well, this book is also an IDE in its own right, where here IDE means an Integrated Design Environment, in the context of mobile applications. Aimed at the burgeoning field of smart portable devices, that usually communicate in a wireless fashion.

The authors describe two main types of design efforts. The first is that of designing the UI for these mobile devices. Typically, there are severe constraints of screen size, resolution and power consumption. Care has to be taken because, after all, this is what the user sees.

The second effort is in choosing and designing an architecture for this UI to interact with a server. Various issues are discussed, like how much "intelligence" will reside on the device ("fat" versus "thin"). And on the server, whether to have a 1, 2 or 3 tier system.

The authors are at HP, and the book is part of the HP Professional Books series. Yet, search though I did, I could find no bias towards HP. In the narrative, there is only one mention of an HP product, OpenView, but this is in the context of listing various vendors' offerings. A very commendable, objective, vendor-neutral text. The design guidelines could be applied to most choices of current hardware, on the mobile device and on the server side. Plus, at the software level, you could choose a J2EE/J2ME or .NET approach. The book's advice supports both.

Mobile Information Systems: Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility

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Mobile Information Systems: Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility

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Mobile devices allow users to access information resources and services over many different distribution channels – anywhere, anytime, anyhow. Technical and usage characteristics of mobile systems are highly variable with respect to user capabilities and context characteristics, therefore an immense level of flexibility is required. Barbara Pernici - with contributions by the research groups involved in the project - presents here a framework for mobile information systems, focussing on quality of service and adaptability at all architectural levels, ranging from adaptive applications to e-services, middleware, and infrastructural elements, as it was developed in the "Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems (MAIS)" project. The design models, methods, and tools developed in the project allow the realization of adaptive mobile information systems in a variety of different architectures. The book is divided into three parts: core technologies for mobile information systems (e.g., adaptive middleware and flexible e-services), enabling technologies (like data management on small devices or adaptive low-power hardware architectures or wireless networks), and methodological aspects of mobile information systems design (such as service profiling or user interface and e-service design for context-aware applications). It provides researchers in academia and industry with a comprehensive vision on innovative aspects which can be used as a basis for the development of new frameworks and applications.

Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16-20, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Middleware 2003: ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 16-20, 2003, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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The refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2003, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 2003. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on peer-to-peer computing, publish-subscribe middleware, adaptability and context-awareness, web-based middleware, and mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2006, Athens, Greece, June 14-16, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2006, Athens, Greece, June 14-16, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2006, held in Bologna, Italy in June 2006. The DAIS conference was held as a joint event in federation with the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2006) and the 8th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 2006).

The 21 regular and 5 work-in-progress papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers focus on architectures, models, technologies and platforms for interoperable, scalable and adaptable systems and cover subjects as methodological aspects, tools and language of building adaptable distributed and interoperable services, fault tolerance and dependability, peer-to-peer systems, mobility issues, web services applications and performance issues and composition, semantic web and semantic integration, and context- and location-aware applications.

Principles of Distributed Systems: 10th International Conference, OPODIS 2006, Bordeaux, France, December 12-15, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Principles of Distributed Systems: 10th International Conference, OPODIS 2006, Bordeaux, France, December 12-15, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2006, held at Bordeaux, France, in December 2006.

The 28 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 230 submissions. The papers address all current issues in theory, specification, design and implementation of distributed and embedded systems.

Principles of Distributed Systems: 9th International Conference, OPODIS 2005, Pisa, Italy, December 12-14, 2005, Revised Selected Paper (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Principles of Distributed Systems: 9th International Conference, OPODIS 2005, Pisa, Italy, December 12-14, 2005, Revised Selected Paper (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, OPODIS 2005, held in Pisa, Italy in December 2005.

The 30 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully selected from 109 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on nonblocking synchronization, fault-tolerant broadcast and consensus, self-stabilizing systems, peer-to-peer systems and collaborative environments, sensor networks and mobile computing, security and verification, real-time systems, and peer-to-peer systems.

Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V: Research Issues and Practical Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems V: Research Issues and Practical Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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The papers selected for this volume present advances in software engineering approaches to develop dependable high-quality multi-agent systems. These papers describe experiences and techniques associated with large multi-agent systems in a wide variety of problem domains. Reflecting the importance of agent properties in today's software systems, the papers in this book illustrate recent developments in specific issues and practical experience.

The 12 thoroughly reviewed and revised full papers are organized in topical sections on fault tolerance, exception handling and diagnosis, security and trust, verification and validation, as well as early development phases and software reuse. Some of the papers were initially presented at the 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems, SELMAS 2006, held in Shanghai, China in May 2006 in association with ICSE 2006. After the workshop edition, it was decided to extend its scope, and to invite several of the workshop participants to write chapters based on their original position papers, as well as other leading researchers in the area to prepare additional chapters, thus describing the most recent developments in the field of software engineering for multi-agent systems.

From Specification to Embedded Systems Application (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

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From Specification to Embedded Systems Application (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing)

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As almost no other technology, embedded systems is an essential element of many innovations in automotive engineering. New functions and improvements of already existing functions, as well as the compliance with traffic regulations and customer requirements, have only become possible by the increasing use of electronic systems, especially in the fields of driving, safety, reliability, and functionality. Along with the functionalities that increase in number and have to cooperate, the complexity of the entire system will increase. Synergy effects resulting from distributed application functionalities via several electronic control devies, exchanging information through the network brings about more complex system architectures with many different sub-networks, operating with different velocities and different protocol implementations. To manage the increasing complexity of these systems, a deterministic behaviour of the control units and the communication network must be provided for, in particular when dealing with a distributed functionality. From Specification to Embedded Systems Application documents recent approaches and results presented at the International Embedded Systems Symposium (IESS 2005), which was held in August 2005 in Manaus (Brazil) and sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). The topics which have been chosen for this working conference are very timely: design methodology, modeling, specification, software synthesis, power management, formal verification, testing, network, communication systems, distributed control systems, resource management and special aspects in system design.

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