A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE BASED ON WEB COMPONENTS FOR UBIQUITOUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

Companies scattered worldwide, the proliferation of network-enabled devices, and advances in telecom-munications have fueled a wide range of emerging behaviors that new and legacy systems must attempt to support. An important new usage behavior is ubiquitous computing, defined here as anytime/anyplace access to system functionality and data. Designing and deploying ubiquitous information systems requires a frame-work or architecture for conceptualizing how to structure and integrate existing and emerging technologies and end systems. The purpose of this research is to propose and describe a reference architecture called the Ubiquitous Information System Architecture. This architecture is a Web-centric synthesis of layered and service-oriented architectural styles with object-oriented patterns designed to provide a blueprint for constructing information systems that must support ubiquitous computing.