Generalized Notification Services: A Simple but Versatile Paradigm for the Implementation of Mobile Data Services 

Decker, M. 

The article at hand discusses a simple but although versatile and powerful paradigm for the implementation of mobile services called generalized notification services (NS). Based on a short discussion of specific challenges for mobile services we will argue why NS are especially suited for applications with mobile and wireless terminals. We also give several examples to demonstrate that while NS are a simple paradigm there are many useful mobile services which could be considered as NS. At the end we sketch a protocol for the realization of NS which ensures certain privacy aspects.

Keywords: Mobile and wireless computing/services, context-awareness, Software Engineering.