Developing an effective mobile rescue support system

Document Type

Journal article

Source Publication

Journal of Internet Commerce

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Volume

1

Issue

3

First Page

129

Last Page

146

Keywords

Mobile database, Rescue support system, Semantic transaction management

Abstract

Mobile computing technology is now rapidly developing in the area of health care service requiring the use of mobile access to information at remote locations. Mobile information transmission systems distribute data to and from remote basis with information sent back and forth using client/server architecture through any wireless communication media. As such, decision-making for any application domain could then be based on complete knowledge as events occur. This immediate decision-making at a critical time is of particular importance in the case of accidents and/or disaster. However, many application obstacles within wireless computing are yet to be resolved. One major issue is the speed of data retrieval, which directly affects the performance of mobile database applications and can affect the emergency rescue process. In this paper, we investigate a semantic-based transaction management mechanism for mobile emergency rescue support system. We then develop a prototype system by using the mechanism and evaluate the performance of the system.

DOI

10.1300/J179v01n03_11

Print ISSN

15332861

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Copyright © 2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Access to external full text or publisher's version may require subscription.

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Language

English

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