====== Research ======


The following pages contains research topics conducted within the Ambient-Oriented Programming Paradigm.

  * [[research:ambientrefs|Ambient References]]
  * [[research:rp|Reactive Programming]]
  * [[research:recap|Reactive Context-Aware Programming]]
  * [[research:context|Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations]]
  * [[research:dgc|Distributed Garbage Collection]]
  * [[research:rfid|Mobile RFID-enabled Applications]]
  * [[research:modelling|Modelling for Ambient Intelligence]]
  * [[research:biomodels|Biologically-Inspired Programming Models]]
  * [[research: tuples | Tuple Space-based Abstractions]]
  * [[at:urbiflock|Mobile Social Networking]]

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The information on the research topics is by now outdated. Please check the resulting PhD theses for further info.
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=====Ambient-Oriented Programming Theses=====

  * [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2006/vub-prog-phd-06-01.pdf|Ambient-Oriented Programming]]. Jessie Dedecker, 2006
  * [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/Publications/2008/vub-prog-phd-08-01.pdf|Ambient References: Object Designation in Mobile Ad hoc Networks]]. Tom Van Cutsem, 2008
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2011/vub-soft-phd-11-03.pdf | Modularising Context Dependency and Group Behaviour in Ambient-oriented Programming]]. 
Jorge Vallejos, 2011
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2011/vub-soft-phd-11-05.pdf | Ambient-Oriented Dataflow Programming for Mobile RFID-Enabled Applications]]. 
Andoni Lombide Carreton, 2011. 
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2012/vub-soft-phd-12-03.pdf | Handling Partial Failures in Mobile Ad hoc Network Applications: From Programming Language Design to Tool Support]]. 
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, 2012.
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2012/vub-soft-phd-12-04.pdf | Reactive Method Dispatch for Context-Oriented Programming]]. 
Engineer Bainomugisha, 2012. 
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2013/vub-soft-phd-13-02.pdf | Workflow Abstractions for Orchestrating Services in Nomadic Networks]]. 
Eline Philips, 2013. 
  * [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2013/vub-soft-phd-13-03.pdf | Ambient Contracts]]. 
Christophe Scholliers, 2013.