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OmniStore: Automating data management in a personal system comprising several portable devices

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Alexandros Karypidis,

Spyros LalisAuthors Info & Claims

Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 3, Issue 5

Pages 512 - 536

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2007.01.003

Published: 01 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

The ever growing amount of data generated and consumed on the move using portable devices gives rise to serious data management issues. The fact that each person may own and is likely to carry several such devices further aggravates this problem. On the other hand, new opportunities for achieving cleverer device interaction emerge due to the increased wireless networking capabilities of wearable and portable devices. This paper introduces OmniStore, a system that combines portable devices and infrastructure-based services to relieve the user from explicit and time consuming file management tasks. Our approach is to let devices communicate with each other as well as with a repository service, in an opportunistic and asynchronous fashion, to perform a variety of file movement and copying actions behind the scenes, which would have typically required considerable explicit user interaction.

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Qiu QPan GLi S(2010)Modeling files with context streamsProceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing10.5555/1929661.1929694(322-336)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1929661.1929694

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Pervasive and Mobile Computing Volume 3, Issue 5

October, 2007

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Xue WPung HSen S(2013)Managing context data for diverse operating spacesPervasive and Mobile Computing10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.11.0019:1(57-75)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.pmcj.2011.11.001
Qiu QPan GLi S(2010)Modeling files with context streamsProceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing10.5555/1929661.1929694(322-336)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1929661.1929694

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