Mobile adaptive applications for ubiquitous collaboration in heterogeneous environments

Mobile teamwork applications are often deployed in heterogeneous environments with various devices and connections. To support a broad variety of platforms for mobile teamwork in heterogeneous environments, this paper presents a framework for development of applications adaptive to the client's computing platform. The framework supports both shared data adaptation and user interface adaptation to user's preferences and display characteristics. Both shared data and the user interface are specified in two XML documents. The user interface XML document specifies the application interface by a generic "view" graph (should also specify the valid data types). Global view graph is transformed into a device-dependant view graph for individual client devices.