Ubiquitous Computing Environment for Project Management Services

This paper describes a mediation based software framework for the development of a ubiquitous computing environment for distributed engineering services. Two fundamental issues are addressed: (1) universal accessibility from devices to services, and (2) coordination and interaction among the parties accessing the services. A prototype infrastructure has been developed and illustrated using a variety of project management application software as well as different devices ranging from PDA, web browsers and desktop computing.