EE Seminar: Data Management in Pervasive and Context-Aware Systems
(The talk will be given in English)
Speaker: Prof. Ing. Fabio A. Schreiber
Politecnico di Milano
Monday, May 28th, 2018
15:00 - 16:00
Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering
Data Management in Pervasive and Context-Aware Systems
Abstract
The scope of data management in pervasive systems is to give users an instantaneous and complete access to any information at any time and anywhere, in highly dynamic environments where both data and source availability varies with a high frequency, expecially as to location and time.
However, the complexity of the envisaged WSN-based systems grew from a handful of homogeneous sensors to hundreds or thousands of devices differing as to their capabilities, technologies, architectures, and languages. Thus, like in other domains of computer systems design, we need models which abstract the structure and behavior of the WSN and of its components at different levels, in order to allow the designer to attack problems in a disciplined way.
In this seminar, I shall show how such systems can be abstracted using models typical of the Database design practice and shall introduce the PerLa language to deal with Pervasive applications in a SQL-like style.
BIO
Prof. Ing. Fabio A. Schreiber is Professor Emeritus of Pervasive Data Management and of Database Systems at Politecnico di Milano. He received the Dr. Ing. degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 1969.
His main research interests are in the field of Distributed Informatics and Information Systems. His current research topics include: Database Systems for context-aware applications, Very Small and Mobile Database design methodologies and applications. Other research interests include:
dependability evaluation of computing and information systems and distributed information systems design. He is member of the editorial boards of Data and Knowledge Engineering.
He participated to several research projects and also partecipated to projects on Information Systems and Telematics for Public Administrations and Local Authorities; for this activity he was bestowed the title of "Commendatore" of the Order "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". He is member of AICA, Senior member of ACM, and Life Senior member of IEEE.
