The performance of query control schemes for the zone routing protocol
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '98 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Client-server computing in mobile environments
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
On balancing between transcoding overhead and spatial consumption in content adaptation
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
A Programming Interface for Application-Aware Adaptation in Mobile Computing
MLICS '95 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing
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FTDCS '03 Proceedings of the The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
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HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
ISAM, a Software Architecture for Adaptive and Distributed Mobile Applications
ISCC '02 Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'02)
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ICOIN '01 Proceedings of the The 15th International Conference on Information Networking
Introduction: Service-oriented computing
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
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IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
ATCP: TCP for mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Applying algebraic approaches for modeling workflows and their transformations in mobile networks
Mobile Information Systems
Rule-based intelligent adaptation in mobile information systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Resource disconnection management in MANET driven by process time plan
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems
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In the last few years we have witnessed an increasing use of mobile devices in several areas, such as e-Commerce, e-Learning and e-Government. At present, there are several kinds of mobile devices, each one already equipped with the most current wireless tecnologies, e.g., Bluetooth, WiFi (the standard 802.11x) and GPRS (General Packet Radio System). Such a technological basis allows to build ad-hoc networks (MANET'S - Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks) among mobile devices, but the mere fact that it is technically possible is not sufficient to allow for effective usage of the resources (in particular software applications) contained within these networks. Up to now, research on MANET's concentrates on routing protocols, but more issues need to be taken into account when designing and realizing information systems for MANET's, such as how to exploit mobility and adaptivity at the application layer. This position paper analyzes ad-hoc network routing protocols in order to determine the minimal services that a MANET network layer should provide for the upper layers. Starting from such an analysis, a service interface is defined, on top of which to build application layer software, and specifically, an orchestration platform to support cooperative workflows on mobile ad-hoc networks. A scenario is presented showing the opportunity of having cooperative workflow on MANET'S. Such a service interface might be a common factor between researchers on MANET routing protocols and researchers on information systems for ad-hoc networks.