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Mika Klementtinen, Nokia, Helsinki
Klaus David, University of Kassel

Duration
Half-day

Learning Goals

 Understanding the

•   Principles of mobile middleware
•   Current solutions/standards
•   Future trends and possibilities

Introduction

•  Basic concepts of middleware (Client Server, Service Oriented Architecture SOA)
•  Requirements
•  Applications

Current Developments and platforms

Basic Principles

RPC (Remote Procedure Call), MOM (Message oriented Middleware)
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
    Concept
    Service Discovery

  Adaptive and Reflective Middleware
  Peer2Peer Middleware

 Java for Mobiles
 OSs like Symbian
 Status and next steps at OMA
 Current status/capabilities of mobile terminals and future developments
     Push mail
     MMS
     Telematics
     Location based services

Future Developments

•  Overview of "research platforms"
•  Context Awareness

  Concept
  Reasoning
  Ontologies

•  Security

  Privacy/ Trust
  "middleware security"

•  Future Applications

Biography Mika Klementtinen:
PhD Mika Klemettinen is a Research Manager at the Software & Application Technologies laboratory of Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. His fields of interest include, e.g., data mining, personalisation, context-awareness, XML technologies and usability. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 1999 from the University of Helsinki, Finland, on data mining. In his current position, Mika Klemettinen is managing European and national level research coordination and cooperation. Mika is also Nokia representative in EUREKA ITEA roadmapping core team and he participates FP7 preparations. Before joining Nokia Research Center in June 2000, he worked at the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, as an assistant professor of Information Systems. He has been an organiser and a member of program committees of several international conferences. Mika has over 40 scientific publications in international journals, conferences and workshops. Mika has participated in and managed research in EU's 4th, 5th and 6th Framework Programmes, like being the Project Manager of the MobiLife project.

Biography Klaus David:
Klaus David is full University Professor since 1998 and since 2000 head of the chair of communication technology at University of Kassel. His research focus is on the Mobile Wireless Internet covering aspects of mobile middleware, personalisation and the link layer. Klaus David has 12 years of industrial experience in major companies like HP, Bell Northern Research, IMEC, T-Mobile (as Head of Group and UMTS project leader) and IHP (as Head of Department), with five years of international experience in the UK, Belgium, USA and Japan. He has more than 80 scientific publications in the field of the Mobile Wireless Internet, including one book and six patents. He is member of organisational or technical committees of major conferences like the MoMuC 1998, ist Summits, FDIS (Frontiers in Distributed Systems, USA). He has extensive experiences in EC funded projects since 1987, held different management position in EC projects. In 1995, he was co-founder of the ACTS On The Move project, one of the first projects about mobile middleware concepts and initiator of the IST WINEGLASS project. He was evaluator of numerous project proposals including IST project evaluation.