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A Dynamic Evaluation Framework for Mobile Applications

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 (ICCSA 2006)

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Due to the large variation in capabilities of mobile devices and the lack of true standards, it is hard to develop applications for the mobile environment that will behave similar on all devices and in different environments. This article introduces the concept of a Dynamic Evaluation Framework that uses several different implementations for one specific application. The performance of each implementation is evaluated at runtime ensuring that the optimal implementation is always used. We describe the architecture and discuss the feasibility of the framework. As part of the evaluation we have developed a simple chat application with a seamless connection that evaluates and selects the optimal connection in real time. The evaluation technique is based on Goal-Question-Metric. The test environment is a J2ME CLDC application that transfers data with Bluetooth and GPRS over the JXTA network.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia

    Anders Magnus Andersen & Torab Torabi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd.,, Cathedral House 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Andersen, A.M., Torabi, T. (2006). A Dynamic Evaluation Framework for Mobile Applications. In: Gavrilova, M.L., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751632_11

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