The Fabric of Mobile Services: Software Paradigms and Business Demands Software Paradigms and Business Demands

What is the future of mobile services?

In order for mobile services to achieve the scale, scope, and agility required to keep them relevant and successful, a number of fundamental technical and business challenges need to be addressed. The Fabric of Mobile Services provides readers with a solid understanding of the subject, covering short-and long-term considerations and future trends that will shape thistechnological evolution.

Beginning with an introduction that brings readers up to speed on the mobile services environment, the book covers:
* The business of mobile services

* Mobile user location as a service enabler

* Simplicity and user experience

* The always-on infrastructure challenge

* Underpinnings of mobile opportunism

* Design patterns for mobile services

* Advanced services of today and tomorrow

Complemented with case studies and end-of-chapter summaries that help facilitate readers' comprehension, The Fabric of Mobile Services is essential reading for researchers, engineers, software engineers, students, and anyone working in the mobile services industry.

Successful mobile services are located in many application realms. This book makes a detailed analysis of the nature of mobile services in several specific and highly topical verticals: mobile marketing, telematics, and healthcare. All of these verticals are seeing a renaissance of intellectual property and new venture funding for new business cases. This book will look at some common attributes of mobile services and how they differ between and amongst these verticals. In addition, this book examines future trends and directions in mobile services studying how scale, content, personalization, security, and billing (among others) will be critical to the future of mobile services. Selected advanced new research in mobile research in mobility, location-based services, wearable computers, sensor, data-streaming and multimodal interfaces provide the reader with a solid understanding of who is doing what for the future of mobile services.

Preface. Chapter 1: Introduction. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Ubiquitous Computing and Next Generation Mobile Services. 1.3 The Mobile Web. 1.4 Emerging Mobile Services Environments - Network View. 1.5 The Mobile Device Environment. 1.6. Putting it all Together in an Example. 1.7 The Fabric of Mobile Services. 1.8 The Focus of This Book. Chapter 2: The Business of Mobile Services. 2.1 The Ecosystem and the Value Chain. 2.2 Between Two Worlds. 2.3 Innovative Business Models. 2.4 Case Study: Personalized Navigation Devices. 2.5 Summary. Chapter 3: Mobile User Location as a Services Enabler. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 LBSs - The Killer Enabler. 3.3 Positioning Technology. 3.4 LBS Architectures and Middleware. 3.5 Search, Context, and Social Filtering. 3.6 Summary. Chapter 4: Simplicity and User Experience. 4.1 New Services and User Experience. 4.2 User Centered Simplicity and Experience. 4.3 Methodologies for Simplicity and User Experience. 4.4 Case Studies: Simplifying Paradigms. 4.5 Summary. Chapter 5: The Always-on Infrastructure Challenge. 5.1 Always-on Service Properties. 5.2 Architecting for Always-on Mobile Services. 5.3. Business Impact of Always on. 5.4. Data Management. 5.5. Summary. Chapter 6: Underpinnings of Mobile Opportunism. 6.1 Managing Complexity and Opportunities. 6.2 Technologies supporting Opportunism. 6.3 Design of Opportunistic Systems - Examples. 6.4 Relevant Standards. 6.5 Summary. Chapter 7: Design Patterns for Mobile Services. 7.2 Architectural patterns. 7.3 User Interface Design. 7.4 Distribution and resource management. 7.5 Event Notification. 7.6 Use Case: Voice-based Content Management. 7.7 Summary. Chapter 8: Advanced Services of Today and Tomorrow. 8.1 Emerging Mobile Application Areas. 8.2 Advanced and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services. 8.3 Getting Personal - What it Takes and Why its Important. 8.4 Summary. Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks. References. Index.