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Designing a Communication Platform for Ubiquitous Systems: The Case Study of a Mobile Forensic Workspace

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The ubiquitous computing is a human-computer interaction model in which information systems (i.e., ubiquitous, pervasive or ambient intelligence systems) are seamlessly integrated into the lifestyle of the user. In particular, these systems offer information about the user context and cooperate with other systems to facilitate some everyday tasks. As a consequence, interoperability is a key requirement for them, since it is usually necessary to exchange information between heterogeneous platforms (operating systems, middleware solutions, hardware architectures, etc.). Interoperability requirements are usually fulfilled by establishing shared communication protocols (SOAP, JSON, IIOP, and so on) and connection mechanisms (for instance, Wi-Fi or BlueTooth). Therefore, the software trends to be highly bond to specific communication-related technologies, making it increasingly complex to incorporate future communication technologies that could enhance its quality. In this paper we present several platform independent models to overcome this problem by decreasing the level of cohesion between communication technologies and software for ubiquitous computing. As a case study, and to show their applicability, the models have been implemented through specific technologies to support the development of a mobile forensic workspace.

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This research work is funded by the Project P10-TIC-6600 granted by the Andalusian Regional Government and the Project 20F2/36 granted by CEI-BioTIC Granada. This work has also been partially supported by the “Contrato-Programa, Facultad de Educación y Humanidades de Ceuta 2010–2012” of the University of Granada.

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  1. ETSIIT, Department of Computer Languages and Systems, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez, Kawtar Benghazi & José Luis Garrido

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Forensic Medicine, Toxicology and Physical Anthropology, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Aurora Valenzuela Garach

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Rodríguez-Domínguez, C., Benghazi, K., Garrido, J.L., Garach, A.V. (2013). Designing a Communication Platform for Ubiquitous Systems: The Case Study of a Mobile Forensic Workspace. In: Penichet, V., Peñalver, A., Gallud, J. (eds) New Trends in Interaction, Virtual Reality and Modeling. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5445-7_8

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