A Modeling and Analysis Approach for Mobile Information Systems

This paper introduces a graphical modeling notation based on coloured Petri nets for the performance and cost evaluation of mobile applications. When developing such an application some restrictions due to the low bandwidth of mobile networks need to be considered. The notation can be used to model the workflow of a mobile application with just a small effort. The resulting model can be (automatically) transformed into a coloured Petri net for simulating the communication behaviour depending on typical user interactions. The simulation results are an important basis for improving the applications performance and the occurring costs for using mobile networks

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