期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology
电子版ISSN：2231-2803
出版年度：2017
卷号：47
期号：2
页码：106-115
DOI：10.14445/22312803/IJCTT-V47P115
出版社：Seventh Sense Research Group
摘要：Hajj and Umrah are holy events performed by millions of Muslim pilgrims every year. Management of such events is a real challenge. This paper proposes a modular framework for the distributed management of those events. In this framework, a cloudbased global server is used to communicate general information with a pilgrim mobile application. On the other hand, each campaign is assigned a cloudbased campaign server for communicating its campaignspecific information with its corresponding pilgrim applications. In both cases, information is communicated in each pilgrim language. The pilgrim application can also provide smallsize static information. Additionally, a campaign manager mobile application allows each manager to define rules for communicating campaignspecific information in a contextaware fashion even though those managers typically lack programming capabilities. Constraints are enforced on the developed rules to help avoid errors. The system provides locationbased services unachievable using Google Maps. Empirical evaluation has shown extreme satisfaction of past and potential pilgrims with the capabilities of the pilgrim application and the high usability of the manager application.
关键词：Context-awareness; Distributedsystems; Hajj; Mobile applications; Mobile cloudcomputing; Pilgrims; Umrah.
