Using data item relationships to adaptively select data for synchronization

Abstract

Though synchronization of email and PIM data to mobile devices has been a major practical concern for a long time, there has been relatively little advance in making synchronization work adaptively. We examine in this article the possibility to adapt synchronization to bandwidth and resource constraints by only synchronizing the items that are currently relevant to the user, and present initial results suggesting that item relationships are helpful for accomplishing this task. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.