PANOS K. CHRYSANTHIS

Affiliation

Associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct associate professor at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Research Interest

My current research focus is on network-centric and mobile data management. As part of my NSF CAREER Award (1995), we developed PRO-MOTION, a transactional infrastructure to support disconnected database operations and extended the notion of database views with personalization to facilitate customized data information gathering. More recently we have been investigating cooperative and peer-to-peer protocols for energy-efficient and scalable data sharing. These include broadcast indexing schemes and multicast-push and muticast-pull data dissemination protocols.

Foresight

With the emergence of micro sensor technologies, PDAs and mobile devices will be replaced by mobile personal networks. Each sensor and embedded processor in these personal networks will be engaged in multiple and complex interactions within their personal network and with the surrounding environment. Scalable and flexible data management technologies will be required to handle these complex interactions and multiple shared contexts. Such technologies will result from the integration of database, network and AI techniques. These, coupled with strong privacy guarantees, will improve every aspect of our life (education, health, personal relations, business, environment, etc.) and will allow "everyone to make a friend everywhere."