Jointly funded by the Flemish Government and the Center for Web Research as part of a general programme for bilateral scientific collaboration, the ORION project spans the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Universidad de Chile.

The project builds upon previous contacts between both universities as part of the SENSO-network, and proposes scientific collaboration on Ambient-Oriented Programming.

Belgian Promotors : Theo D'Hondt & Wolfgang De Meuter
Chilean Promotor : Gonzalo Navarro

Duration: 1-jan-2006 till 31-dec-2007
Budget: approx. 38.000 EUR

The ORION project brings together experts in the development of reflectively implemented language features for open networks of mobile devices and experts in partial behavioural reflection which work on techniques to optimize the use of reflective hooks while retaining a maximum of expressiveness. The goal of the project is to investigate how these research strengths can be combined to produce a praticable yet full-fledged open reflective infrastructure for open networks.

AmbientTalk is used as the virtual machine in which the work packages described in the project will be developed. Some of the work packages are service discovery abstractions, failure handling and garbage collection, all of which are currently pursued by researchers of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

• 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering of Pervasive Services at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2006.
• Second Workshop on Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 2006.
• Third Workshop on Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming 2007.
• Advances in the Engineering of Ambient-Oriented Applications held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
• ORION seminar held at the Universidad de Chile.

• Flexible Object Encapsulation for Ambient-Oriented Programming
  Wolfgang De Meuter, Eric Tanter, Stijn Mostinckx, Tom Van Cutsem and Jessie Dedecker
  In “Proceedings of the Dynamic Language Symposium - OOPSLA '05: Companion of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications. San Diego, U.S.A. ACM Press.”, 2005
• Design of a Multi-Level Reflective Architecture for Ambient Actors
  Dieter Standaert, Eric Tanter and Tom Van Cutsem
  In “2nd workshop on Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing (OT4AmI) co-located at the 20th European Conference on Object-oriented Programming (ECOOP), Nantes, France”, 2006
• Proximity is in the Eye of the Beholder
  Peter Barron, Jessie Dedecker and Eric Tanter
  In “3rd workshop on Object Technology for Ambient Intelligence and Pervasive Computing (OT4AmI) co-located at the 21st European Conference on Object-oriented Programming (ECOOP), Berlin, Germany”, 2007
• Mirages: Behavioral Intercession in a Mirror-based Architecture
  Mostinckx Stijn, Tom Van Cutsem, Stijn Timbermont and Eric Tanter
  In “Proceedings of the Dynamic Languages Symposium - OOPSLA '07: Companion of the 22nd annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications. Montreal, Canada. ACM Press.”, 2007