1960 Copyright © 2013, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 101 INTRODUCTION Research challenges in data mining increase as a consequence of technological and scientific advances and there is a need to lay out the emerg- ing challenges in order to ease and expedite the research on the issues identified. Focus of extant data mining research is, on one hand, high per- formance data mining where research endeavours are to reduce the computational complexity of algorithms and develop parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. On the other hand, data mining methods are investigated to obtain better models for specialized areas such as genome min- ing or special kind of data such as spatial and tem- poral. Though these are still among the interested research areas and any contribution will be useful to on-going data mining, in this chapter we aim Research Challenge of Locally Computed Ubiquitous Data Mining 1 ABSTRACT Advances in wireless, sensor, mobile and wearable technologies present new challenges for data mining research on providing mobile applications with intelligence. Autonomy and adaptability requirements are the two most important challenges for data mining in this new environment. In this chapter, in order to encourage the researchers on this area, we analyzed the challenges of designing ubiquitous data mining services by examining the issues and problems while paying special attention to context and resource awareness. We focused on the autonomous execution of a data mining algorithm and analyzed the situational factors that infuence the quality of the result. Already existing solutions in this area and future directions of research are also covered in this chapter. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch101 Aysegul Cayci Sabanci University, Turkey João Bártolo Gomes Universitad Politecnica, Spain Andrea Zanda Universitad Politecnica, Spain Ernestina Menasalvas Universitad Politecnica, Spain Santiago Eibe Universitad Politecnica, Spain