CISC 550 - Software Engineering in Mobile Computing

(3 semester hours)
Prerequisites: CISC 510 and CISC 520
Description: Recent years have witnessed the advent of wireless mobile and sensor technologies and the proliferation of application scenarios whereby large numbers of pervasive computing devices are connected to a wireless networking infrastructure in an ad hoc manner. The student is shown how to design, implement, and deploy location/context-aware applications that interact with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Topics to be covered include: basic user interfaces, application design, concurrency, and location-aware and other context-aware programming.