Profile Driven Architecture for Data Management in Pervasive Environments

掌上电脑、嵌入式和可穿戴设备的功能不断增强，以及无处不在的连接的出现，代表了设备之间交互的新范式。在移动数据管理领域，移动设备不仅从有线来源收集和交换信息，而且从它们的环境和彼此收集和交换信息，这为研究开辟了一个新的前景。每个设备既是一个数据源，也是一个数据消费者，追求其单独和集体的任务。提出了一种新的研究方案，旨在实现基于彼此相邻的自主、动态和自适应组件（硬件和软件）合作的泛在计算系统。这与“基于基础设施”的pda和网络服务之间的移动客户端/服务器计算有很大不同。提出的研究将使一类新的应用程序能够有效地利用移动性和普适计算。新的原型和应用将建立在移动信息管理的背景下，在动态的自组织服务和设备社区中。该研究团队是位于马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校（UMBC）的eBiquity研究小组的一部分，并将与IBM、富士通和惠普等行业的合作者密切合作。

The constant enhancements in capabilities of palmtop, embedded andwearable devices, together with the advent of pervasive connectivity,represents a new paradigm for interaction among devices. A new vistais open for research in the area of mobile data management wheremobile devices gather and exchange information from not just wiredsources, but also their environment and one another. Each device isboth a data source and a data consumer pursuing its individual andcollective tasks. New ideas are proposed for a research program aimedat realizing ubiquitous computing systems based on the cooperation ofautonomous, dynamic and adaptive components (hardware as well assoftware) which are located in vicinity of one another. This issignificantly different from ``infrastructure-based'' mobileclient/server computing between PDAs and network services. Theproposed research will enable a new class of applications thateffectively exploit mobility and pervasive computing. New prototypesand applications will be built in the context of mobile informationmanagement within dynamic communities of ad-hoc services anddevices. The research team is part of the eBiquity research grouplocated at The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) andwill closely interact with collaborators from industry including IBM,Fujitsu, and HP.