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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 |
+ | [[http:// | ||
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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://prog.vub.ac.be/ | + | |
+ | 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 //mobile RFID-enabled applications//. These are applications running on mobile devices such as smartphones or PDAs that spontaneously interact with the [objects in the] user's environment using by communicating with tagged objects. Mobile RFID-enabled applications both disperse application-specific data to and process contextual data from tagged physical objects. The programmer must dispose of adequate tools to deal with RFID hardware characteristics. | ||
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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. | ||
- | My area of interest is memory management for distributed systems. More specifically, | + | You can find more information about my work [[:research:rfid|here]]. |
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- | == Stijn Mostinckx | + | == Dries Harnie |
- | [[http:// | + | |
- | My research consists | + | Thanks to the work of the other people on this page, programming |
- | I am currently investigating how an [[research:exceptions|ambient-oriented exception handling mechanism]] interacts | + | |
+ | 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: comparing prices for stuff we want to buy or finding interesting activities for a trip. Doing these things | ||
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+ | My research intends to provide | ||
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- | == Christophe Scholliers | + | == Lode Hoste == |
+ | [[http:// | ||
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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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- | == Stijn Timbermont | + | == 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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+ | == 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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== 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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+ | == Stijn Mostinckx == | ||
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+ | In the past, I have contributed to the formulation of the ambient-oriented programming paradigm and have co-designed the current incarnation of AmbientTalk. | ||
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+ | A first element of the solution I propose is the use of pattern matching rules to succinctly describe which changes to the environment are relevant. | ||
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+ | The second element of the proposed solution is the use of [[research: | ||
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+ | The approach that combines and integrates these elements is the [[research: | ||
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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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