Mobile computing and ubiquitous networking: concepts, technologies and challenges

Towards Clinical Bioinformatics: Advancing Genomic Medicine with Informatics Methods and Tools

“…Not only in the field of clinical bioinformatics, new information and communication technologies increase the potential of medical informatics methods and tools, and offer new opportunities. As an example, it can be observed that the ubiquitous availability of clinical information is a major trend in medical informatics research [34,35]. The next IMIA Yearbook -which is to appear in March, 2005 -will have 'Ubiquitous Health Care Systems' as its theme.…”

SightSafety: A hybrid information and communication technology system for reducing vehicle/pedestrian collisions

“…The widespread use of mobile computing has resulted in a variety of new mobile applications being developed which enable flexible connectivity between project participants to be achieved [29]. The key advantage of mobile computing (over and above access to services, for example, the web, corporate Intranet and databases) is that applications can be developed to meet the specific needs of a mobile workforce [28]. For example, geotechnical engineers at Network Rail, responsible for the maintenance of earthwork structures throughout Britain, had to complete vast amounts of paperwork whilst determining the location and condition of track and supporting earthworks [11].…”

Fuzzy decision method to improve the information exchange in a vehicle sensor tracking system

“…From the point of view of mobile computing, there are special challenges [20] such as: (1) short duration of the batteries, which although they have increasingly greater capacity, they also have higher consumption because the resources used by devices (e.g., due to the increasing size of the screens); (2) data connections are usually much more constrained and limited than data wiring connections in a fixed place; and (3) total computational resources that are available are generally much lower than those available in a laptop or desktop computer. The following sections will deepen in those topics.…”