Contents

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • Mobile Code
    • Mobility Mechanisms
      • Mobility of Code and Execution State
      • Data Space Management
    • Design Paradigms
      • Remote Evaluation
      • Code on Demand
      • Mobile Agent
    • Application Domains
  • Motivation for Adaptation
    • Situation
    • Static Customization
    • Dynamic Adaptation
  • Scenarios
  • Problem Statement
• State-of-the-Art in Adaptation
  • Adaptation in Literature
    • Static Adaptation
    • Continuous Adaptation
  • Requirements
    • Programming Overhead: R1-R4
    • Interaction between Core and Adaptation Mechanism: R5-R10
    • Runtime Overhead: R11-R13
    • Deployment of Requirements
  • Survey of techniques
    • Static Adaptation
      • Binary Component Adaptation
      • Load-Time Adaptation
      • MetaJava
    • Dynamic Adaptation
      • LEAD
    • Continuous Adaptation
  • Conclusion
• Proposed Methodology of Adaptation
  • Example: Browser Configuration
  • Overview
  • Reconfiguration
    • Design Pattern
    • Explicit Adaptation - Proposal 1
    • Adaptation Adaptor - Proposal 2
    • Virtual Class - Proposal 3
    • Summary of Reconfiguration
  • Context Awareness
    • Profiles and Profile Values
    • Recursive Context Awareness
    • Rule Based Context Awareness - Proposal 1
    • Info-Component-Based Context Awareness - Proposal 2
    • Integrated Profile Based Context Awareness - Proposal 3
    • Summary of Context Awareness
  • Repository
    • Proxy Repository
    • Architecture of the Proxy Repository
      • Replication - Proposal 1
      • Cache - Proposal 2
  • Implementation of a Prototype System
    • Adaptation Framework
      • Architecture
      • Adaptor
        • Structure of an Adaptor
        • Adaptor Generator
      • Adaptation
        • ContextAwareness
        • Loader
        • RepositoryClient
      • Profiles
        • Structure of Profile Values
        • User Defined matching function
        • Integration of Profile Values into Implementation Classes
        • Profile Checker
      • Repository
        • Profile Request
        • Class Request
        • Library Request
      • Communication Protocol
        • Repository Proxy
        • Repository Info
    • Implementation of Browser Configuration
    • Mobile Agent on Voyager Agent System Platform
      • Integration of Technologies
• Analysis and Evaluation of Methodology and Implementation
  • Meeting the requirements
    • Programming Effort
    • Interaction between Application and Adaptation Mechanism
  • Runtime Overhead
    • Setup of Measurements
      • Reference Customized Application
      • Runtime Measurements
    • Results of Measurements
  • Summary
• Conclusions
  • Contribution
    • Requirements
    • Design pattern
      • Profile
    • Framework
      • Adaptors
      • Context Awareness
      • Loader
      • Repository
  • Example of Adaptation Process
    • Implementation of the Prototype
  • Results
    • Transparency of Adaptation
    • Runtime Overhead
    • Breakeven Point of Adaptation
  • Future Work
• References