Data Management in Mobile Computing
Mobile computing (like the peer to peer transaction model did) brings about a new paradigm of distributed computing in which communication may be achieved through wireless networks and users can compute even as they relocate from one support environment to another. The impact of mobile computing on systems design goes beyond the networking level and directly effects data management. Although being a relatively new area, mobile data management has attracted a lot of research efforts, motivated by both a great market potential and by many challenging research problems.
Along with Evi Pitoura of the University of Ioannina we have initiated a research collaboration to study the effect of mobility in transaction processing and data management. After surveying the related literature it was apparent that mobility, as the peer property for the peer-to-peer model, affects the transactional, computational and data model, the communication paradigm, transaction management, commit processing, software architecture and program support. At the file and database level it might effect predictive caching, weak consistency, dynamic replica placement, fault-tolerance and checkpointing as well as other related functions.
In reviewing the scatter literature on mobile computing we felt that our review and conclusions on this new and upcoming area could benefit other researchers as well. To this end we have contacted the Kluwer Academic Publishers, proposed and written a research book on data management for mobile computing. This book belongs to the series of "Advances in Database Systems" and aims to provide a thorough and cohesive overview of these recent advances. It fills the gaps found in the related literature, it will provide a number of case studies, it summarizes open problems and suggest promising research topics.
Related Publications
Books
E. Pitoura and G. Samaras (1998) "Data Management for Mobile Computing", Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-8053-3, 1998
Journals
Konstantinidis A., Zeinalipour-Yazti D., Andreou P., Samaras G., Chrysanthis P. (2013) "Intelligent search in social communities of smartphone users", Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD '13), Springer US, Volume 31, pp. 115-149 (published online in 2012)
Kyriakos Karenos, George Samaras, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Evaggelia Pitoura (2004) "Mobile Agent-Based Services for Database View Materialization", The ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), special issue on “Recent Advances in Mobile Data Management Issues”, Vol. 8 Issue 3, pp. 32-43 (2004)
Evaggelia Pitoura, Serge Abiteboul Dieter Pfoser, George Samaras, M. Vazirgiannis (2003) "DBGlobe: Service-Oriented P2P System for Global Computing", ACM SIGMOD Record 32(3): 77-82 (2003)
Stavros Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura (2001) "An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Access", International Journal of Cooperation Systems (IJCIS), Vol. 10. No. 4, pp. 401-422 (2001)
Conferences and Workshops
Andreou P., Constantinou G., Zeinalipour-Yazti D., Samaras G. (2012) "FireWatch: G.I.S.-assisted Wireless Sensor Networks for Forest Fires", Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management" (SSDBM '12), Springer LNCS Series, Volume 7338, pp. 618-621
Andreou P., Zeinalipour-Yazti D., Samaras G., Chrysanthis P. (2011) "Towards a Network-aware Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks", Proceedings of the 8th Intl. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN '11), in conjunction with VLDB '11, Seattle WA USA
Boncz P., Bonifati A., Böse J., Böttcher S., Chrysanthis P., Gruenwald L., Illarramendi A., Janacik P., König-Ries B., May W., Mondal A., Obermeier S., Ouksel A, Samaras G. (2006) "06431 Working Group Summary: P2P, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks - All the Different or All the Same?", Scalable Data Management in Evolving Networks 2006
Grünbauer J., Klein M, Koloniari G., Samaras G., Türker C. (2004) "04441 Working Group - Description and Matching of Services in Mobile Environments", Mobile Information Management 2004
G. Samaras, C. Spyrou, E. Pitoura (2002) "View Generator (VG): A Mobile Agent Based System for the Creation and Maintenance of Web Views", Proc. Of the 7th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2002), pp. 761- 767, Taormina, Italy July 2002
Constantinos Spyrou, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura, Stavros Papastavrou, and Panos K. Chrysanthis (2001) "Mobile Agents to Support Views for Wireless and Mobile Client", Proc. 17th International Data Engineering Conference (ICDE 2001), demo session, pp. 1-4, Germany, April 2-6 2001
Stavros Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura (2000) "An Evaluation of the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Access", Proc. of the Fifth IFCIS International Conf. on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS´2000), pp. 102-113, Israel, Sept. 2000
Stavros Papastavrou, Panos K. Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura (2000) "A Survey on the Java-based Approaches for Web Database Connectivity", Proceedings of the MELECON 2000 Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, pp. 290-293, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2000
Panels
G. Samaras (2002) "Mobile Commerce: Vision and Challenges?", Main panel of the 2002 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2002), Nara, Japan / Jan.28 - Feb.1, 2002, pp. 43 - 44
Editorial
Chen W., Lee D., & Samaras G. (2007) "Editorial message", Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, June 10, 2007, Beijing, China, held in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2007, ACM Press.
Roussos G., Samaras G., & Spinellis D. (2005) "Editorial message", ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Ubiquitous Computing Applications Track , SAC 2005, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2005, pp. 1599
Zaslavski A., Delis A., Wolfson O., Chrysanthis P., & Samarsa G. (2005) "Editorial message", Proceedings of the 5th 2005 ACM International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM2005), Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 35 papers, 2005.
Roussos G., Samaras G., and Spinellis D. (2004) "Editorial message", ACM Symposium on Applied Computing: Ubiquitous Computing Applications Track, SAC 2004, Nicosia Cyprus, 2004, pp. 1565-1566
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