May 19, Thursday
12:00 – 14:00
We discuss the research issues involved in these applications. We also propose an opportunistic dissemination paradigm, in which a moving object exchanges resource information with encountered moving objects. We analyze several variants of this paradigm, and incentive economic models for collaboration. The subject is related to peer-to-peer networks, resource discovery in mobile ad hoc networks, epidemic replication and routing, and publish/subscribe literature. However, significant differences exist, and we will discuss them.
Biographical sketch:
Ouri Wolfson's main research interests are in database systems, distributed systems, transaction processing, and mobile/pervasive computing. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Databases and Mobile Computing Laboratory, and the newly established Mobile Information Systems Research Center. He served as a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, to the US Army Research Laboratories, to the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA, and to the High Performance Database Research Center at Florida International University. He is also the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup company specializing in infrastructure software for location based services and products. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.
Ouri Wolfson authored close to 120 publications, and holds two patents. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, an editor of the ACM/URSI/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal, a Member of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Review Editorial Board and a guest editor of the ACM/Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks. He received the best paper award for "Opportunistic Resource Exchange in Inter-vehicle Ad Hoc Networks", at the 2004 Mobile Data Management Conference. He is also the 2001 recipient of the UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery during 2001-2003. He participated in numerous conferences (including ACM-SIGMOD, VLDB, PODS, ICDE, NGITS, ICDCS, MOBIDATA, DOOD, SSD, GIS, PDIS, CIKM), as a program committee member, session chairman, and panelist. Most recently he was the keynote speaker at the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2001), the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2004), and The Second International Workshop On Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer Computing (DBISP2P 2004). He was the program committee co-chair of the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2002), the Second ACM International Workshop on Mobile Commerce (2002), and the Sixth International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2005). His research has been funded at a level close to ten million dollars by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NATO, US Army, the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, and Informix Co.