As the next deliverable (R1), I ask for a formal project proposal. The following description is a precursor of what the next deliverable will be (I will revise it based on the work you submit). In the present deliverable (R0), please just approximate R1 as much as possible, so your R1 effort is simplified.

• Write a two-page report with the following details. You can use a picture if you like.
1. Describe at a high level, clearly and concisely, the overall problem you seek to address.
• If you build an application or middleware (or platform), what are its intended usage scenarios? Who will care to use what you create and why?
• Describe any special features of your application or middleware. For example, if context-aware aspects are important, then elaborate on what features of context you employ (or exploit)? Why is a context-aware solution required—how does the solution reduce user effort, enhance usability, preserve confidentiality, or what else?
• If you perform data analysis, explain the kinds of facts you hope to discover or the hypotheses you will try to verify, what makes those facts or hypotheses interesting, what datasets you will use, how you will prepare the datasets, and what kind of analysis you will carry out.
• If you will conduct a simulation, explain what hypotheses you will try to verify, what makes those hypotheses interesting, and how would your simulation provide the information needed to prove or disprove those hypotheses.
• Be creative. Don't overly worry about implementation details at this stage.
• If you have more than one initial idea on which you would like to receive comments, submit up to two of them. I will let you know which I would prefer you to pursue. You will receive the best of the grades corresponding to your proposals.

• Include a revised version of R1.
• Using up to an additional up to three pages, enhance R1 with a description of the design of how your implementation is proceeding. Concisely specify the main representations and reasoning you expect to develop, explaining the key aspects of your design along with any rationales. Include any preliminary, tentative results.

• Include a revised version of R2.
• In up to one page, describe your implementation and any special technical challenges you faced in bringing it to completion.
• In up to two pages, describe your results and other findings. Describe what the reader should take away from your exercise.

• In up to two additional pages beyond R3, reflect upon your project work with respect to
  • The limitations of your problem formulation, hypotheses, methods, and findings
  • The prerequisites for taking your findings and applying them in practice
• If you are preparing a formal paper for publication that addresses the above points, you can submit that paper instead provided you highlight or otherwise identify the sections where it addresses these points.