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Towards a General Approach to Mobile Profile Based Distributed Grouping

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Organic and Pervasive Computing – ARCS 2004 (ARCS 2004)

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We present a new kind of mobile ad hoc application, which we call Mobile Profile based Distributed Grouping (MPDG), which is a combination of mobile clustering and data clustering. In MPDG each mobile host is endowed with a user profile and while the users move around, hosts with similar profiles are to be found and a robust mobile group is formed. The members of a group are able to cooperate or attain a goal together.

In this paper MPDG is defined and it is compared with related approaches. Furthermore, a modular architecture and algorithms are presented to build arbitrary MPDG applications.

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Seitz, C., Berger, M. (2004). Towards a General Approach to Mobile Profile Based Distributed Grouping. In: Müller-Schloer, C., Ungerer, T., Bauer, B. (eds) Organic and Pervasive Computing – ARCS 2004. ARCS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2981. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24714-2_10

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