Strategic impact. Current European strength in mobile and wireless technologies means that global comput- ing applications like those above are an important potential market, of real importance for future competitiveness. This project will contribute new understanding of the principles and limitations behind such applications, vital for their eventual development into working products and services. The direct application of the individual workpackages is to generate results and knowl- edge that we shall pass through to the future projects that will build systems like these on a large scale. Several of the detailed avenues of research planned are speculative and even risky, in the anticipation that even if some are found impractical, this “negative” information is also useful to those trying to build concrete systems. As such, the strategic impact of this project will be on other, forward-looking, research projects that can draw on our work to more effectively build working systems for global computing.
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