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Location-Based Services: Back to the Future
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MPRV.2008.34April-June 2008 (vol. 7 no. 2) pp. 85-89
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Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna
Axel Küpper, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Sumi Helal, University of Florida
What was wrong with first-generation location-based services? A brief historical overview identifies five factors that collectively laid the foundation for a new generation of LBSs.

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[2] C. Lee, A. Helal, and D. Nordstedt, "The μJini Proxy Architecture for Impromptu Mobile Service Access," Proc. 2006 Int'l Symp. Applications and the Internet Workshops (SAINT 2006 Workshops), IEEE CS Press, 2006, pp. 113–117.
[3] P. Bellavista, A. Corradi, and C. Giannelli, "Coupling Transparency and Visibility: A Translucent Middleware Approach for Positioning System Integration and Management (PoSIM)," Proc. Int'l Symp. Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS06), IEEE Press, 2006, pp. 179–184.
[4] Java Community Process, JSR179 Location API for J2ME, http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/ finaljsr179.
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[6] G. Treu, F. Fuchs, and C. Dargatz, "Implicit Authorization for Social Location Disclosure," J. Software, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008, pp. 18–26.

Index Terms:
location-based services, positioning systems
Citation:
Paolo Bellavista, Axel Küpper, Sumi Helal, "Location-Based Services: Back to the Future," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 85-89, Apr.-June 2008, doi:10.1109/MPRV.2008.34
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