NAPA: Nearest Available Parking Lot Application Hae Don Chon, Divyakant Agrawal, and Amr El Abbadi   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Demonstrations Abstract With the advances in wireless communications and mobile device technologies, location-based applications or services will become an essential part of future applications. We have developed a location-based application called NAPA (Nearest Available Parking lot Application) that assists users to find the nearest parking space on campus. NAPA is an example of an application which combines a number of new features, such as location-based, wireless communication and a directory service like LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) DiSC'03 © 2003 Association for Computing Machinery