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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://www.aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/2008.html | Dahl-Nygaard Award]] in 2008.
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-== Prof. dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix==
+== Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix==
 [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~egonzale| Homepage]]
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-== Dr. Christophe Scholliers ==
-[[http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~cfscholl/|Homepage]]
-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, dynamic discovery, etc.)
-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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-== Dries Harnie ==
-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.
-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 with current technology requires a lot of "bookkeeping code" because it can only track the connectivity of one link at a time.
-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 ==
-[[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~lhoste|Homepage]]
-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.
-The relation of my research and AmOP is the //spontaneous collaborative manipulation of digital information//. One scenario is that multiple people can interact using their laptop or mobile device with a shared virtual smart-board over a wireless network. Another scenario is the peer-to-peer data exchange where one users 'throws' (gesture 1) data and another users 'catches' (gesture 2) it. This type of interaction is both distributed in the //actions// they perform (correlate the 'throw' and 'catch' from different devices) and in the //data// that is exchanged.
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 === Former Members ===
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 The approach that combines and integrates these elements is the  [[research:recap|reactive context-aware programming]] paradigm, an extension of the ambient-oriented programming paradigm which is tailored for the Internet of Things.
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 [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~jvallejo|Homepage]]
-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, may influence their behaviour. For further information about my work please visit the [[research:context|Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations]] section of this site.
+The focus of my PhD 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, may influence their behaviour. For further information about my work please visit the [[research:context|Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations]] section of this site.
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 In my Phd dissertation, I investigated programming abstractions that allow to specify which events to capture by distributed application components in a mobile ad hoc network. Furthermore, I am trying to come up with mechanisms that allow reacting to these events without relying on event handlers or other callback mechanisms. Finally, low level events should be processed (e.g. by combining them) such that they are on the semantic level of the application.
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+== Prof. Dr. Christophe Scholliers ==
+[[http://users.ugent.be/~chscholl/#/Home|Homepage]]
+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, dynamic discovery, etc.)
+In the past, 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. During my PhD, I worked 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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 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, compensating actions and more advanced synchronisation.
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+== Dr. Lode Hoste ==
+[[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~lhoste|Homepage]]
+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.
+The relation of my research and AmOP is the //spontaneous collaborative manipulation of digital information//. One scenario is that multiple people can interact using their laptop or mobile device with a shared virtual smart-board over a wireless network. Another scenario is the peer-to-peer data exchange where one users 'throws' (gesture 1) data and another users 'catches' (gesture 2) it. This type of interaction is both distributed in the //actions// they perform (correlate the 'throw' and 'catch' from different devices) and in the //data// that is exchanged.
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+== Dr. Dries Harnie ==
+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.
+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 with current technology requires a lot of "bookkeeping code" because it can only track the connectivity of one link at a time.
+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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