Mobisaic: an information system for a mobile wireless computingenvironment
Voelker, G.M.; Bershad, B.N.
Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 8-9 Dec 1994 Page(s):185 - 190
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCSA.1994.513481
Summary:Mobisaic is a World Wide Web information system designed to serve
users in a mobile wireless computing environment. Mobisaic extends the
Web by allowing documents to both refer and react to potentially
changing contextual information, such as current location in the
wireless network. Mobisaic relies on client side processing of HTML
documents that support two new concepts: dynamic uniform resource
locators (URLs) and active documents. A dynamic URL is one whose results
depend upon the state of the user's mobile context at the time it is
resolved. An active document is one that automatically updates its
contents in response to changes in a user's mobile context. The paper
describes the design of Mobisaic, the mechanism it uses for representing
a user's mobile context, and the extensions made to the syntax and
function of uniform resource locators and HyperText markup language
documents to support mobility
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