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 ====== Urbiflock ======
-==== What is Urbiflock? ====
+===== What is Urbiflock? =====
 UrbiFlock is a framework sculpted for the development of //pervasive social network applications//: an emerging type of applications that enable spontaneous interactions of people by means of handheld devices (such as their cell phones). These applications exploit the colocation of a number of mobile devices in the proximity to enable social interaction //on the move//.
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 Users can also build applications and plug them into the Urbiflock framework. Several core applications are currently available in the Urbiflock framework, such as flock creators and profile viewers. The framework also counts with two user applications //I rate you (IR8U)// that allows users to ask proximate users to rate them on a certain subject, and //Guanotes// that allows user to send message to each other.
-==== Terminology ====
+===== Terminology =====
   * Flockr: a user of the Urbiflock framework
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   * To flock: to become part of a group
-==== Demo ====
+===== Demo =====
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-==== Target Platforms ====
+===== Target Platforms =====
 The Urbiflock framework has been written in the AmbientTalk language. As such, no configuration is required to be able to quickly script new applications on it once AmbientTalk is running on the target platform.
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 The Urbiflock framework is available in the AmbientTalk distribution library under the frameworks/ folder. Visit  [[http://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/|our google code repository]] to download the AmbientTalk distribution.
-==== Urbiflock architecture ====
+===== The Urbiflock framework architecture =====
 The architecture of the Urbiflock framework shown below is divided in three layers: applications, Urbiflock core, and Urbiflock infrastructure.
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 The infrastructure layer consists of three low-level abstractions on which the framework core is based: a RETE engine which orchestrates the flock composition, and the service discovery and communication APIs to discover and communicate with nearby applications, respectively.
-==== Development ====
+===== Further Reading =====
+**Flocks: Enabling Dynamic Group Interactions in Mobile Social Networking Applications**. E. Gonzalez Boix, A. Lombide Carreton, C. Scholliers, T. Van Cutsem, W. De Meuter, T. D'Hondt. To appear in Mobile Computing and Applications Track at 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011), ACM, Taiwan, March 2011. ([[http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2010/vub-tr-soft-10-20.pdf|pdf]])
-  * [[uf:todolist|Bugs and TODO List]]
-  * [[uf:Design|Whiteboard Design]]
-  * [[:uf:urbiflock_design.pdf| Design Diagram]]
-  * To think about:
-    * [[uf:persistence|Persistence]]: saving/loading framework and application data and prefs.
-    * [[uf:privacy|Privacy]]: restrict access of applications to a user's flocks