Profile Driven Architecture for
Data Management in Pervasive Environments

A three year project funded by NSF (award number 0209001) directed by PI Anupam Joshi and CO-PIs Tim Finin and Yelena Yesha to be carried out 2003-2005 with $153K in funding from the NSF Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Data and Applications Security Program under the direction of program officer Bhavani Thuraisingham.

The constant enhancements in capabilities of palmtop, embedded and wearable devices, together with the advent of pervasive connectivity, represents a new paradigm for interaction among devices. A new vista is open for research in the area of mobile data management where mobile devices gather and exchange information from not just wired sources, but also their environment and one another. Each device is both a data source and a data consumer pursuing its individual and collective tasks. New ideas are proposed for a research program aimed at realizing ubiquitous computing systems based on the cooperation of autonomous, dynamic and adaptive components (hardware as well as software) which are located in vicinity of one another. This is significantly different from "infrastructure-based'' mobile client/server computing between PDAs and network services. The proposed research will enable a new class of applications that effectively exploit mobility and pervasive computing. New prototypes and applications will be built in the context of mobile information management within dynamic communities of ad-hoc services and devices. The research team is part of the eBiquity research group located at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and will closely interact with collaborators from industry including IBM, Fujitsu, and HP.

for more information, contact Anupam Joshi, joshi@umbc.edu.