Using mobile architecture modeling and simulation for enterprise applications

Mobility-be it physical device mobility or logical code mobility-also influences enterprise application architectures. In this paper we show how mobile software architectures can be modeled in a way that the emergent behavior (availability, response times) of such a system can be simulated by using an architectural model of the system and applying an simulation approach where a network model and a user interaction model are used for providing the contextual information. This approach can be applied to service oriented systems and mobile applications like workforce supporting systems, facilitating design decisions and predicting system behavior at design time.