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Here you will find the people behind the AmbientTalk project. They are all PhD Students or Post-doctoral research fellows at the Programming Technology Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
My research consists of investigating how applications can respond to dynamic changes in their environment. In particular, I have studied the changes that give rise to (non-functional) exceptions. I am currently investigating how an ambient-oriented exception handling mechanism interacts with various other topics that are studied in the group including advanced referencing abstractions, transactional support and context-awareness.
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. I am currently working on Role-Based Ambient Communications.
My research interests lie both in the adaptation and application of meta-level architectures and reflection to the AmOP paradigm and in the uncovering of new language abstractions for the paradigm. More specifically, I am currently investigating ambient references, which are a set of object-oriented service discovery abstractions.
Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/composition/object models) and reflection.