CSE 720 Pervasive Information Management

Registration #388767

Instructor

Time and location

W 4:00-6:30pm, Bell 224

Schedule

Date	Topics	Presenter	References
08/30/06	Organization of the seminar	Jan Chomicki	No
09/06/06	No seminar: conference trip	No	No
09/13/06	CANCELLED	No	No
09/20/06	Stream query languages	Jan Chomicki	L. Golab, T. Ozsu "Data Stream Management Issues - A Survey," TR CS-2003-08, Univ. Waterloo.
09/27/06	Foundations of uncertain data	Slawek Staworko	A. Das Sarma et al. "Working Models for Uncertain Data," ICDE'06.
10/04/06	Publish/Subscribe systems	Denis Mindolin	P. Eugster et al., "The Many Faces of Publish/Subscribe," ACM Comp. Surv., June 2003.
10/11/06	No seminar	No	No
10/18/06	CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System	Murat Demirbas	B. Hull et al. "CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System," SENSYS'06.
10/25/06	Distributed Top-k Queries	Gang Fang	H. Yu et al."Efficient Processing of Distributed Top-k Queries," DEXA'05.
10/25/06,11/01/06	Approximate Querying in Sensor Networks	Xi Zhang	A. Deshpande et al. "Model-based Approximate Querying in Sensor Networks," VLDB Journal, 2005.
11/15/06	Contextual Mediation	Abhijith Kashyap	D. Chalmers et al. "A framework for contextual mediation in mobile and ubiquitous computing applied to the context-aware adaptation of maps," Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 2004.
11/29/06	Activity Recognition	Demian Lessa	D. Gavrila "The Visual Analysis of Human Movement: A Survey," CVIP, 1999.
12/06/06	Location Systems	Chun Lim	J. Hightower, G. Borriello "Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing," IEEE Computer, 2001.
12/06/06	Location Privacy	Rohan Thakkar	U. Hengartner, P. Steenkiste "Access control to people location information," ACM TISSEC, Nov. 2005.

Summary

This seminar will study the concepts, architectures, tools, and
techniques underlying pervasive information management.  Pervasive
computing and storage devices (sensors, RFID tags, beacons,...)
collect, generate and process huge amounts of data.  Due to their
distributed nature and their embedding in the physical world,
pervasive computing applications create new, unique challenges to data
management.

The following are example research questions we will study:

* What are the different ways of revealing and hiding one's location?

* How to query the physical world?

* How to build large-scale, reliable and predictable pervasive
  computing applications like smart homes and what are their
  informational needs?

* How to integrate data from highly dynamic sets of data sources?

* Does streaming data make a difference?  

There is no textbook; we will use current research literature.

The students will be required to :

* Read at least one relevant paper a week and be prepared for the
  discussions. Class attendance and participation are mandatory.

* Give a class presentation and prepare a report. Those will be based
  on an original research or survey paper, an implementation project,
  or an article review.

Prerequisite: CSE 562 or equivalent. It is possible to register for
1-3 credits and/or obtain a letter grade. The course project can be
used to satisfy the M.S. project requirement.

Possible topics

Previous offering of this seminar

• Notions of Context and Their Applications (Fall 2005)