Seminar Mobile Data Management for UMIC
     (WS 07/08)

Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao

(This seminar in RWTH Campus System)  

The Ultra High-speed Mobile Information and Communication (UMIC) project is an interdisciplinary research cluster at RWTH Aachen University under the German Excellence Initiative. The goal is to provide an order of magnitude improvement of the perceived quality of mobile services. Concepts and demonstrators for smart, mobile, broadband, low-cost systems are developed to support the next-decade mobile Internet. Within the sub area Mobile Applications and Services, mobile applications and their interplay with the wireless transport, mobile multimedia processing and peer-to-peer mobile information processing etc. are focused on. Hence, mobile data management is a key topic to enhance data quality and data mobility, to manage, share, search and retrieve data on mobile devices via wireless connections, and allow for mobile applications of the next decade. In the seminar, topics about mobile database, multimedia, XML, peer to peer and other data management technologies are to be researched for mobile communities.    

The goal of this seminar are to get an overview of approaches to mobile data management.  Various mobile databases, peer-to-peer databases, mobile multimedia repositories and XML technologies are to be compared and researched, and their mobile application fields are to be explored. This seminar will also discuss the state-of-the-art developments in mobile data management areas.

12 topics will be assigned to the students, the talks will be presented in an intensive two day learning course. The language of the seminar is English, though we accept seminar papers in German.

Important dates:

	11:45-13:15, Mon., October 22th., 2007: Introduction meeting, in the seminar room at Informatik 5
	9:00-17:00, Feb. 7-8th. 2008: Seminar meetings, in the seminar room at Informatik 5
	Office hours:  15:00 - 17:30 Mondays

Topics and assignments

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conditions for a successful participation:

Procedure

	Literature Research
	Thesis paper: 1-2 pages (15th. Nov. 2007) (German or English)
	Structure: 1-2 pages (29th. Nov. 2007) (German or English)
	Seminar work: 20 pages (10th. Jan. 2008) (German or English)
	Slides: (24th. Jan. 2008) (English)
	Talk: 40-45 min. (English)
	Following Discussion (English)

Rules

	Vivid participation
	Adherence to all time limits
	Reading of all seminar papers
	Submission of required documents on time

Requirements for participation are:

	Informatik Vordiplom or master program admission
	Interests in mobile computing and mobile database technology
	Specialization in information systems (if possible)

links:

BSCW

Contacts:

Dr. Ralf Klamma klamma@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: 0241/80-21513

Dipl.-Inform. Yiwei Cao cao@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: 0241/80-21516