Challenges for mobile data management in the era of cloud and social computing

The mobile data management community is experiencing a rapid evolutionary change due to the worldwide diffusion of always-on mobile devices and to the increased popularity of location and context-aware mobile applications. Accordingly to recent studies, in two years from now one fourth of the total mobile data will come from audio and video streaming and nearly all the rest from other Internet services. A large part of the increase in mobile data will come from cloud computing applications that are massively used for storing personal data, for sharing data, as well as for utility software (such as maps) and productivity tools. Social networking will strongly influence the way mobile users choose, share and use content from mobile devices. On the other side mobile devices are changing the way social networks have been used till now introducing geo-tagging, location sharing, and many innovative location based services.