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===== People ===== | ===== People ===== | ||
- | Here you will find the people behind the AmbientTalk project. They are all PhD Students or Post-doctoral research fellows at the [[http:// | + | These are the people behind the AmbientTalk project of the [[http://soft.vub.ac.be|Software Languages Lab]]. |
- | {{ ambientpeople.jpg?400 }} | + | == Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter == |
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- | //The ambient group (without Stijn Mostinckx) in June 2007. From left to right: Jorge Vallejos, Jessie Dedecker, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Stijn Timbermont, Wolfgang De Meuter, Tom Van Cutsem.// | + | In the past, I have been active in the design and formalisation of prototype-based object-oriented programming languages. After a small detour in AOP (where I introduced monads in AOP and identified the need for cflow with jumping aspects), I'm currently working with the ambient group on the design and implementation of ambient-oriented programming languages. My current mission is to come up with language constructs that make writing software for loosely coupled |
+ | Keywords are repls, interpreters, dynamic typing, higher-order, | ||
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+ | As usual, the professor is not the one doing the real work. Please read on for more details on our research. It has received international recognition by the fact that Wolfgang has won the [[ http:// | ||
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+ | == Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | ||
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+ | My PhD research focused on investigating programming language support to deal with the effects engendered by partial failures in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In MANETs many partial failures are the result of temporary network partitions due to the intermittent connectivity of mobile devices. Some of these failures will be permanent and require application-level failure handling. However, it is impossible to distinguish a permanent from a transient failure. Leasing provides a solution to this problem based on the temporal restriction of resources. | ||
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+ | This research identified a number of criteria for a leasing model specially designed for MANETs and proposes the //leased object references// | ||
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+ | == Dr. Christophe Scholliers == | ||
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+ | Current-day applications for mobile phones and PDAs are often limited to miniature versions of standard desktop | ||
+ | applications such as browsers, calendar and word processing applications. Only a fraction of the available | ||
+ | applications allows the mobile devices to interact directly with their environment. One of the reasons for this is that | ||
+ | even for the simplest interactions between mobile devices, the implementation needs to deal with a lot of problems | ||
+ | that are inherent to a pervasive computing environment (e.g. frequent disconnections, | ||
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+ | Last year, I have been involved in the development of (a concrete implementation of) the Fact Space Model, an | ||
+ | extension to the tuple space model which provides fine-grained control over the effects of disconnections. | ||
+ | Using a declarative language, every device can specify how it will adjust its behaviour in response to dynamic changes | ||
+ | in its environment. Currently, I am working on an extension of this model that allows applications to work on shared and replicated data. | ||
+ | The use of weak data replication in a mobile environment ensures that there is no need to stop an ongoing application when certain data cannot be synchronized. | ||
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+ | == Kevin Pinte == | ||
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+ | Our everyday environment will soon be pervaded with RFID tags, tiny chips that can be integrated into any physical object. The tags can store and distribute information about the object or its environment. RFID technology is a key technology in developing pervasive context-aware applications. | ||
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+ | I am investigating new programming abstractions to develop | ||
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+ | Currently programming such applications is problematic. Communicating with RFID tags is prone to many failures as the connections with tags are extremely volatile and RFID tags have a small range of operation. State-of-the-art RFID applications heavily rely on infrastructure and merely employ RFID tags as digital barcodes, not exploiting the writable memory on the tags. As a consequence mobile RFID-enabled applications have to be developed in an ad hoc way, building upon low-level hardware abstractions leaving the developer to deal with RFID hardware characteristics manually. | ||
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+ | You can find more information about my work [[: | ||
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+ | == Dries Harnie == | ||
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+ | Thanks to the work of the other people on this page, programming applications for mobile devices is now as easy as, say, writing a blog. However, research so far has focused on one-to-one communication and how the properties of MANETs disrupt it. | ||
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+ | In the Real World(tm) we do group communication without giving it a second thought, changing conversation topics as people leave and rejoin the group. Likewise, we effortlessly do service composition: | ||
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+ | My research intends to provide abstractions that bind a number of services residing on different mobile devices into coherent entities. Programmers can then use these abstractions to communicate with groups of services as easily as with single services. | ||
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+ | == Lode Hoste == | ||
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+ | My research focuses on investigating programming language support to deal with the massive amount of concurrent events generated by various input devices. By providing adequate software abstractions for correlating multiple input devices we try to encourage multimodal gestural interaction and ease their implementations. | ||
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+ | The relation of my research and AmOP is the // | ||
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+ | === Former Members === | ||
== Dr. Jessie Dedecker == | == Dr. Jessie Dedecker == | ||
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Apart from my research on AmOP I also have a general interest in dynamic object-oriented programming languages, concurrency and distribution. | Apart from my research on AmOP I also have a general interest in dynamic object-oriented programming languages, concurrency and distribution. | ||
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- | == Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter == | ||
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- | == Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | + | == Dr. Tom Van Cutsem |
- | [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ |
- | My area of interest is memory management for distributed systems. More specifically, my research | + | Specific to my PhD thesis, my research |
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+ | Within the research track of ambient-oriented programming, | ||
+ | Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/ | ||
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== Stijn Mostinckx == | == Stijn Mostinckx == | ||
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- | My research | + | In the past, I have contributed to the formulation of the ambient-oriented programming paradigm and have co-designed the current incarnation of AmbientTalk. |
- | I am currently investigating how an [[research:exceptions|ambient-oriented exception handling mechanism]] interacts with various other topics that are studied in the group including advanced referencing abstractions, transactional support | + | |
+ | A first element of the solution | ||
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+ | The second element of the proposed solution is the use of [[research:rp|reactive programming]]: a programming model centered on the use of time-varying //reactive values//. Their unique // | ||
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+ | The approach that combines | ||
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- | == Jorge Vallejos == | + | == Dr. Jorge Vallejos == |
- | [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ |
The focus of my research is to investigate the context-awareness property in the field of Ambient Intelligence. My particular interest is to explore the ways in which the computational context surrounding mobile applications, | The focus of my research is to investigate the context-awareness property in the field of Ambient Intelligence. My particular interest is to explore the ways in which the computational context surrounding mobile applications, | ||
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- | == Tom Van Cutsem | + | == Dr. Andoni Lombide Carreton |
- | [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ |
- | My research interests lie both in the adaptation and application | + | The dynamic nature |
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+ | This poses a problem when we look at the new generation of disposable processing hardware, such as RFID tags. Ubiquitous applications will not only consist of peer-to-peer interactions, | ||
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+ | In my Phd dissertation, | ||
- | Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/ | ||
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+ | == Dr. Eline Philips == | ||
+ | Nomadic networks fill the gap between fixed networks and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as they consist of a group of mobile devices that can move around dynamically while trying to maintain a connection with a fixed infrastructure. My research focusses on the coordination of nomadic services by making use of workflows as they provide an additional layer of abstraction such that interactions among application components can be specified on a higher level and be reused because of their loose coupling with the fine-grained application logic. Unfortunately, | ||
+ | volatility. | ||
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+ | AmbientTalk is a programming language which treats disconnections at the very heart of its computational model. Moreover, the language supports dynamic service discovery which is opportune for nomadic networks. Although this language is suited for writing applications for MANETs, the orchestration of these applications is still programmed in an ad hoc manner. Complex nomadic applications that consist of asynchronously executing distributed services become hard to develop, understand and reuse. I am currently working on the addition of an abstraction layer on top of AmbientTalk which implements | ||
+ | workflow patterns. I am investigating which new patterns for nomadic networks can be added to this abstraction layer. Concretely, I want support for intensional descriptions of services, group communication, | ||
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