Mobile Application Integration: Framework, Techniques and Challenges

Abstract

With the rapid development of the mobile Internet,large amount of mobile applications emerge,the types and number are still increasing.Handset manufacturers,carriers and Internet service providers also lunched their own application stores,mobile application has become a new model of Internet.The related information of the mobile applications exists in the App stores,professional forums and social networks;they are always diverse,heterogeneous and dynamic,so it is a very challenging task to integrate the variety of the mobile applications.The main task of the mobile application integration is to integrate the basic information of the applications and other related information efficiently,and to provide effective application search,application discovery and recommendation services.Mobile application integration is still a relatively new field of study,a framework of the mobile application integration is proposed in this paper,some related works on some key issues are analyzed,and finally several future research works are explained.