Profile Driven Architecture for Data Management in Pervasive Environments

掌上电脑、嵌入式和可穿戴设备功能的不断增强，以及普遍连接的出现，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，而且从它们的环境和彼此收集和交换信息，这是一个新的研究领域。每个设备既是数据源，又是执行其个人和集体任务的数据消费者。提出了一种新的研究方案，旨在基于相互邻近的自治的、动态的和自适应的部件(硬件和软件)的协作来实现泛在计算系统。这与PDA和网络服务之间的“基于基础设施”的移动客户端/服务器计算有很大不同。这项拟议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。新的原型和应用程序将建立在移动信息管理的背景下，在动态的特别服务和设备社区中进行。该研究团队是位于巴尔的摩县马里兰大学(UMBC)的Ebiquity研究小组的成员，将与IBM、富士通和惠普等行业的合作者密切互动。

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.