Mobile Information Management Dagstuhl Seminar

From 24.10.04 to 29.10.04, the Dagstuhl Seminar 04441 Mobile Information Management was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The rst section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available. 04441 Executive Summary Dagstuhl Seminar Mobile Information Management From October, 25th until 29th , 2004, a Dagstuhl seminar on mobile information management took place. The seminar was attended by 34 researchers from Europe and North America with backgrounds ranging from database systems, mobile information systems, geographic information systems and business informatics to wireless networks and security. The goal of the seminar was to bring together researchers, especially from the area of databases and information systems, to identify open problems and new challenges in data, service, and user management in mobile information processing environments. We are particulary interested to provide a forum for discussing the consequences of the mobility of users and devices on today's and future data management systems. The rst aim of this discussions was to clearly identify these consequences. The second and more challenging aim was to determinate where existing solutions can be applied, where mobility raise truly new challenges, and which of these challenges are there to last. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 04441 Mobile Information Management http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2005/258 2 M. Dunham, B. König-Ries, E. Pitoura, P. Reiher and C. Türker