NSF Workshop on Context-Aware Mobile Database Management (CAMM)

Workshop Scope

A number of conferences and workshops have been organized in the recent past focusing on the topic of mobility in managing information.  In fact the scope of mobility is significantly wider than what has been projected by some of these events.  This workshop, which we refer to as CAMM (Context-Aware Mobile Database Management), aims to fill this void by recognizing the pervasive nature of mobility in all aspects of human activities, which deal with information directly or indirectly.  The workshop also aims to explore the role of mobility in new activities such as Bio-terrorism.

Thus, the objectives of this workshop (CAMM) includes the following:

·       Stimulate and focus interest in the emerging area of data management for context-aware mobile and   pervasive computing

·       Establish consensus on the key research problems and natural collaboration among the participants

·       Develop and promote common platforms that can be used for cross-fertilization

·       Inform the larger research community the importance of context-aware data management

·       Provide NSF with input for future funding initiatives

·       Encourage the use of standards and shared infrastructure

·       Address the problems of bio-terrorism

·       Create a permanent forum for evaluating mobile research activities.

The workshop aims to achieve its objectives by concentrating on the following topics:

·       Application level issues (data types, data structure, data distribution, data classification, etc.) of context-aware databases

·       Architecture of wireless and mobile platforms.

·       Efficient algorithms, prototypes, necessary testbeds, and benchmark suites or case studies for this discipline, which will evolve over time.

·       Inherent relationship between data mobility and data processing mobility (moving data, data caching, data push, data pull, data broadcast, etc.).

·       Web and data warehouse interface to mobility.

·       Mobile and intermittent connectivity (location management, handoff, reachability, optimization, etc.),

·       Mobile system security and recoverability.

·       Role and shape of query processing.

·       Sensor technology.

·       Monitoring a large number of sensors.

·       Ad-hoc network management (leader election, location management, etc.)

·       Information security, access control, and reliability.

·       Mobile agents.

·       Mobile transaction model and mobile secure transaction processing.

·       Mobile database logging, checkpointing, recovery and concurrency control.

·       Moving object management.

·       Power management

·       Standardization of concepts and terms

·       User profiles and profile processing

·       Bio-terrorism