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

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Workshop Schedule and Presentation Guidelines

 

The purpose of the workshop is to set a research agenda for the area of “data management for pervasive and mobile computing” and produce a report that gives the funding agencies and the technical community clear guidance on future research directions in the area of Pervasive and Mobile Data Management.  To achieve the objective, we will follow the schedule and the presentation procedure that are outlined below.

 

All position papers are organized into the four categories.  The division is based on commonality in the content of the position papers.  It is meant to serve as an easy way to organize the presentations on the first day.

 

M1        Location-dependant computing

M2        Mobile services (recovery, query, security, etc.)

P1         Pervasive data management (PDM) infrastructure

P2         Data streams

 

Presentation Guidelines

The purpose of the presentations is to give everyone a chance to inject their own viewpoint on this topic into the mix.  To this end, we ask you please to observe the following guidelines for your short presentation. 

1. 3 slides max!  At the end of five minutes you will be politely asked to sit down.
2. Confine your remarks to a few important issues or problems.
3. Try to choose those remarks in a way that is likely to add to the whole (not necessarily to promote your own research).

 

To facilitate the rapid turnover of talks, we ask that you bring along real transparencies (remember those).  Plugging and unplugging laptops or loading new files is likely to soak up too much time.  We realize that this is an extraordinarily retro-idea, but sometimes the old way is the best way.

 

Please note that these are working sessions.  We have assigned times to the tasks as a best guess.  You can view them as upper-bounds.  If we finish one task early, we will forge ahead to the next one, giving us additional time to work on the final product.

 

The goal of the first day is to get to know each other, put the “cards on the table”, and organize these “cards” (issues, questions, topics) into sensible groupings that could serve as the main subsections of our report.  It is possible, but unlikely that the above four areas will stand.  

Thus, day 1 will proceed as follows.

 

First day

 

Start	End
8:00	8:30	Opening remarks and organizational briefing
8:30	9:45	Invited talk with questions
9:45	10:00	Break
10:00	11:15	Presentations1 for Group M1
11:15	12:30	Presentations for Group P1
12:30	1:30	Lunch
1:30	2:45	Presentations for Group M2
2:45	3:00	Break
3:00	4:15	Presentations for Group P2
4:15	4:30	Break
4:30	6:00	Session2 to determine broad topic areas3 and to evenly subdivide the group into these areas.
		Dinner on your own

 

Notes for Day 1

 

1. The presentations are not meant to be a summary of your work.  They are intended to give everyone an opportunity to state their opinions about the future of this technology and their thought about what we should be working on.  In order to do this in a timely fashion, everyone will get 5 minutes and no more than 3 slides.  You will politely be asked to sit down when your time is up.  Please comply.  (With approx. 7 people per group we should get about 35 minutes of presentations and 40 minutes of questions and discussion.)
2. The final session has the danger of not converging.  During the presentations, please keep in mind that we will be looking for good ways to organize our selves.  Try to come to the final session with suggestions.  If we cannot come to consensus in the allotted time, then the default is to keep the categories above.  It is in all our interests to maintain a spirit of cooperation during this discussion.
3. We should come up with 4 to 6 topic areas.  An even number works best with the process of Day 2, but if 5 is the best number, we can improvise.

 

Second day

 

Start	End
8:00	9:15	Invited talk with questions
9:15	9:30	Break
9:30	11:30	Working Session1 1
11:30	12:00	Lunch
12:00	2:00	Working Session 2
2:00	3:00	Presentations2 of results from the Working Sessions
3:00		Adjourn

 

Notes for Day 2

 

1. The working sessions are intended as the time at which we create detail for our new high-level topics.  This detail, will take the form of 3 slides, and these slides will be the basis for the corresponding section of the final report.  In order to create the kind of “cross-cultural” mixing that this workshop is intended to generate, we will try to do this in a setting that encourages input from diverse sources.  if we have n topics/groups, each session will have n/2 groups with writing responsibility and n/2 groups with critiquing responsibility during each session (remember that making n even makes this much more straightforward).  

The groups will pair off in the following way.  For the sake of argument, suppose that we have four groups  two of which focus on networking topics (N1 and N2) and two of which focus on data management topics (D1 and D2). 

In the event that we come up with an odd number of topic areas, we will subdivide the critiquing groups appropriately to make it work out.  Don’t ask us to detail that here now.  

2. The final session, will be presentations of the results of the working sessions.  This is everyone’s opportunity to fine tune.  You can do this after each presentation or you can do it offline when you are back in the comfort of your own office.