Web Content Adaptation for Mobile Handheld Devices

摘要

We have witnessed the explosive growth of mobile handheld devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) in recent years. Many wireless applications have been developed for those devices, including daily news update, classified advertising, tourist guide, wireless Web portals, and m-commerce applications. The ability to communi- cate from virtually anywhere and the convergence of Web and wireless technologies offer an unprecedented level of flexibility and convenience, particularly for ubiq- uitous information access through mobile devices. How- ever, the unique features of wireless networks (for example, low bandwidth and unreliability) and mobile devices (for example, small screen size, and low memory and processing capability), as well as the mobility of users, present challenges for taking advantage of the convenience of mobile devices for information access.