XIV Brazilian Symposium on Databases
Promoted by SBC, Brazilian Computer Society
In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD

Joao Pessoa -- Paraiba -- Brazil
October 2 - 4, 2000

Title:	Infosphere: Smart Delivery of Fresh Information
Language:	English
Master:	Calton Pu ,Georgia Institute of Technology - USA. (and many others)
Abstract:	In the pervasive/ubiquitous computing environment of the near future, we will have many computers per person and many sensors linking these computers to the real world. These computers and sensors will generate a large amount of information that need gathering, transmitting, storing, filtering, followed by timely notification and delivery to users.   We believe that the missing link in the construction of Infosphere is the software to manage information flow from the information producers to consumers. We propose the Infopipe abstraction to link information producers to consumers. In addition to their basic function of transporting information, Infopipes manage and manipulate the concrete delivery properties of the information flowing through them, such as freshness. Infopipe creation and composition involve the specification of these properties and system resource management mechanisms to maintain them. The property specifications are translated automatically by the system into an actual implementation with the desired behavior. When information flows through an Infopipe, concrete delivery properties and requirements such as freshness, performance, and security are updated en route and maintained each step of the way. The three components of Infopipe, the property management, the feedback-based resource management, and the smart information delivery, can be combined to form an Infosphere that brings the right information to the right user at the right time.
Title:	Mining Multimedia Data
Language:	English
Master:	Osmar Zaiane
Abstract:	( Isn't available )