XVMF: an extensible and versatile matchmaking framework for supporting dynamic application adaptation in ubiquitous computing environments

Abstract

This paper presents XVMF, an extensible and versatile matchmaking framework, which supports various service substitution mechanisms in dynamic application adaptation for ubiquitous computing environments. XVMF enables various substitution mechanisms to be easily developed by providing common abstracts for implementing a service substitution mechanism. It also allows an application or a user to select the most appropriate substitution mechanism with respect to its requirements by providing various substitution policies. The current Java implementation of XVMF supports three existing substitution mechanisms