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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 == |
+ | [[ http:// | ||
- | // | + | In the past, I have been active in the design and formalisation |
+ | Keywords are repls, interpreters, dynamic typing, higher-order, first-class, | ||
- | == Dr. Jessie Dedecker == | + | 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://www.aito.org/ |
- | [[http:// | + | |
- | My current research topic revolves around collaborative ambient-oriented programming abstractions. This involves abstractions for expressive coordination of groups of ambient objects. In this context I am also investigating replication strategies suitable for disconnected operation. | + | ===== |
+ | == Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
- | Apart from my research on AmOP I also have a general interest | + | My research |
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+ | This research identifies a number of criteria for a leasing model specially designed for MANETs and proposes the // | ||
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+ | For further information about my work please visit my [[http:// | ||
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- | == Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter | + | == Andoni Lombide Carreton |
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+ | The dynamic nature of ambient oriented applications makes it impossible to structure them as monolithic programs with a fixed input and output. Instead, a distributed event-driven architecture is required. Current event-driven architectures require distributed application components to react to events via a carefully crafted network of observers, event handlers or callback mechanisms which are scattered throughout the application code and can be triggered at any point in time. Such architectures are hard to develop, understand and maintain in all but the most trivial cases. | ||
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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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+ | I am currently looking into programming abstractions that allow to specify which events to capture by distributed application components in a mobile ad hoc network. Furthermore, | ||
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- | == Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | + | == Kevin Pinte == |
- | [[http:// | + | |
- | My area of interest is memory management for distributed systems. More specifically, my research | + | 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 |
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+ | I am investigating new programming abstractions | ||
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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 | ||
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+ | You can find more information about my work [[:research:rfid|here]]. | ||
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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 | ||
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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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== Stijn Mostinckx == | == Stijn Mostinckx == | ||
- | [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ |
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+ | The goal of my research is the development of elegant programming models which allow applications to respond to dynamic changes in their environment. As a means to detect such changes, we explore the [[crime: | ||
- | My research | + | My ongoing |
- | I am currently | + | |
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== Christophe Scholliers == | == Christophe Scholliers == | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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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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+ | == Stijn Timbermont == | ||
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+ | In an Ambient Intelligent setting, various kinds of hardware are involved, each with its own characteristics. To allow abstraction over the different devices, a standard virtual machine approach is not feasible because it is not possible to abstract over all the devices at the same time. Instead, each device will require an individually adapted virtual machine. | ||
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+ | This reseach proposes a new way to develop virtual machines for Ambient Intelligence. Instead of manually modifying the virtual machine for of a particular device, the virtual machine can be generated by composing reusable modules. The first step is to determine the set of modules that can be used to build a virtual machine. The next step is to find implementation and composition techniques that guarantee the correctness and efficiency of the generated virtual machine. | ||
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== Jorge Vallejos == | == 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. Tom Van Cutsem == |
- | [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ |
Specific to my PhD thesis, my research lies in uncovering novel referencing and communication abstractions for mobile ad hoc networks. More specifically, | Specific to my PhD thesis, my research lies in uncovering novel referencing and communication abstractions for mobile ad hoc networks. More specifically, | ||
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Within the research track of ambient-oriented programming, | Within the research track of ambient-oriented programming, | ||
Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/ | Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/ | ||
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+ | === Former Members === | ||
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+ | == Dr. Jessie Dedecker == | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | My current research topic revolves around collaborative ambient-oriented programming abstractions. | ||
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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. | ||
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