Pervasive software services for dynamic virtual organizations

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is penetrating deeper into daily life and work of people: mobile communications, portable devices, embedded computing and intelligent systems are major or opportunities for creating next generation information systems and infrastructures. Technologies such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or SIP-based broadband networks and 3rd generation mobile phones (UMTS) are offering the infrastructure to conceive information systems as pervasive, meaning that systems are accessible from anywhere, at any time, and with any device. This paper presents our achievements in this area of research based the research prototypes developed in our EU projects MOTION and EasyComp. Further, the paper outlines aspects of pervasive software services for dynamic virtual organizations that are considered in our ongoing project PeSSIFIC to fulfill needs and constraints of distributed and mobile collaboration scenarios.