Speaker: Philippe Bonnet, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA

Outline: The objective of the tutorial is (a) to introduce sensor networks and their applications and show the relevance of database technology in this new context, (b) to survey the aspects of sensor networks that are relevant from a database point of view, (c) to review the existing work and (d) to list the challenges. So the target audience would be researchers that are curious about the role database technology can play in the context of sensor networks.

About the Speaker: Philippe Bonnet received a PhD from Universite de Savoie in 1999. He is currently a research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is currently in charge of the Cornell Predator public domain object-relational DBMS. His current research interests involve sensor database systems, database tuning and next-generation database systems.

Data Dissemination and Synchronization in Mobile Applications and Beyond

Speaker: Mike Franklin, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Outline:  A key issue in Mobile Data Management is the coordination of the data stored on mobile devices with the data maintained on servers. This tutorial will address two different, but related aspects of this problem: Data Dissemination, in which relevant data is sent to users proactively, and Data Synchronization, in which a two-way flow of updates between users and servers is performed to ensure consistency in the presence of replication. In this tutorial, we will examine techniques for addressing each of these issues, and will identify technologies that can assist in both of them. The examples will draw on recent projects in disseminating XML documents, specifying user interest profiles, and synchronizing PDAs.

About the Speaker:  Michael Franklin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the architecture and performance of distributed databases and information systems. Previously, Dr. Franklin was at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he led the development of the DIMSUM flexible query processing architecture and was a co-developer of the Broadcast Disks data dissemination paradigm. He is an Editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems and ACM Computing Surveys, and is Program Co-Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Data Management. He currently serves on the Technology Advisory Boards of several Bay Area start up companies. He is a 1995 recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a 2000 recipient of an Okawa Foundation research grant.