https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/ 2026-04-13T17:11:30+00:00 https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/ https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/_media/wiki/dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2010-09-13T13:13:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/ambientrefs?rev=1284383622&do=diff Ambient References Tom Van Cutsem Ambient references are a novel type of remote object references. Remote object references are “pointers across the network” and are a frequently recurring abstraction in both distributed OO languages and distributed middleware. Ambient references are designed to refer to objects in text/html 2018-04-12T20:17:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/atpapers?rev=1523564227&do=diff Papers on AmbientTalk Below you can find a number of selected scientific publications about the AmbientTalk programming language. * T. Van Cutsem, E. Gonzalez Boix, C. Scholliers, A. Lombide Carreton, D. Harnie, K. Pinte, W. De Meuter. AmbientTalk: programming responsive mobile peer-to-peer applications with actors text/html 2009-11-30T15:52:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/biomodels?rev=1259596320&do=diff Biologically-Inspired Programming Models Jessie Dedecker The goal of this research is to learn from biological models to structure, design and implement robust and scalable ambient intelligent systems. Motivation Biological models have a number of interesting properties that can be useful in the design of robust and large-scale ambient intelligent systems. An example class of biological models is based on stigmergy [4,5]. Stigmergy is used by ant and termite colonies to communicate indirec… text/html 2006-07-02T00:12:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/context-aware_cell_phone?rev=1151799123&do=diff A Context-Aware Cell Phone Scenario We illustrate the context influence on software applications in the following high-level scenario: Assume you are attending a meeting and someone wants to reach you via his cell phone (see picture below). However, since this is an important meeting, you may not want to be disturbed by such incoming calls. Therefore, the cell phone should provide a way to react to the context of use: You are currently in an important meeting - so phone calls should be signaled… text/html 2009-11-30T15:55:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/context?rev=1259596512&do=diff Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations Jorge Vallejos Motivation Within the domain of pervasive computing, context-awareness has commonly been defined as the ability of an application to adapt itself to its dynamic environment. The context of an application is defined as any information or service in the application's surroundings that may influence its current state or behaviour. In this research, we focus on the influence of such context on the communications between the entities of a soft… text/html 2015-02-04T18:10:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/dgc?rev=1423073453&do=diff Distributed Garbage Collection Elisa Gonzalez Boix my website Motivation Mobile ad hoc networks represent a new kind of distributed system with distinguishing characteristics that pose new challenges in the field of distributed garbage collection (DGC). In particular, DGC must deal with a highly partial disconnected network topology where remote references may be inaccessible for unpredicted amount of time. DGC mechanisms typically determine the reachability of the remote objects by means of … text/html 2010-08-04T15:34:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/doforreal?rev=1280936080&do=diff Distributed Objects for Real Over the past year, the Software Languages Lab has been experimenting with new programming language abstractions for mobile RFID-enabled applications. We approached the development of such applications from two opposing perspectives, each outlined below. text/html 2012-06-17T10:37:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/events?rev=1339929467&do=diff Events This page provides an overview of the events and media appearances related to the ambient-oriented programming-related research. droidcon.de 2011 Andoni Lombide Carreton presented AmbientTalk and its extensions for writing mobile RFID-enabled applications at text/html 2009-11-30T16:18:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/exceptions?rev=1259597919&do=diff Ambient-Oriented Exception Handling Stijn Mostinckx Exception handling mechanisms have become an essential tool for software development. Since exceptions are propagated automatically by the language support, methods need to be aware only of the particular exceptions they can handle locally. This degree of obliviousness is particularly useful in a context where exceptions are bound to arise not only to report logical errors but also as a response to environmental failures (e.g. long-lasting … text/html 2025-06-19T13:54:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/home?rev=1750341281&do=diff Research The following pages contains research topics conducted within the Ambient-Oriented Programming Paradigm. * Ambient References * Reactive Programming * Reactive Context-Aware Programming * Context-Dependent Behaviour Adaptations * Distributed Garbage Collection * Mobile RFID-enabled Applications * Modelling for Ambient Intelligence * Biologically-Inspired Programming Models * Tuple Space-based Abstractions * Mobile Social Networking Ambient-Oriented Programming T… text/html 2009-11-30T15:45:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/influentialpapers?rev=1259595959&do=diff Influential Papers Papers which have influenced our research in significant ways, categorized by topic: Simplicity * Fisher Price Toys Programming Languages * Oscar Nierstrasz, Alexandre Bergel, Marcus Denker, Stephane Ducasse, Markus Galli and Roel Wuyts. On the Revival of Dynamic Languages, Proceedings of Software Composition 2005, Thomas Gschwind and Uwe Aßmann (Eds.), vol. 3628, LNCS 3628, 2005, pp. 1-13 text/html 2006-07-02T00:13:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/jorgeecoop06.pdf?rev=1151799214&do=diff A Role-Based Implementation of Context-Dependent Communications Using Split Objects Jorge Vallejos, Peter Ebraert, Tom Van Cutsem, Stijn Mostinckx, Brecht Desmet, Theo D'Hondt. ECOOP 2006, Nantes, France. [ Download ] text/html 2006-11-09T18:50:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/modelling?rev=1163098234&do=diff Modelling for Ambient Intelligence Ellen Van Paesschen Stijn Mostinckx Maja D'Hondt Context In the past few years, special-purpose hardware (e.g. cellular phones, portable music players, game consoles, etc.) has evolved enormously. The most important innovation is not that these devices are becoming ever smaller and more powerful but that they have evolved into networked devices. To make optimal use of the growing network surrounding these devices, co-operative software needs to be developed… text/html 2011-09-12T17:29:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/nars?rev=1315848596&do=diff Network-Aware References Multi-networking and network awareness for mobile applications. Kevin Pinte Dries Harnie futher reading Further Reading * Enabling Cross-Technology Mobile Applications with Network-Aware References. Kevin Pinte, Dries Harnie and Theo D’Hondt. Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION 2011),in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6721, De Meuter, Wolfgang and Roman, Gruia-Catalin (eds.), 2011; 142-156. [ text/html 2007-08-07T21:49:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/papers?rev=1186523385&do=diff Papers on Ambient-Oriented Programming Rather than providing you with all papers published by our group, we try to give an overview of a selected set of important publications discussing Ambient-Oriented Programming. Each paper is also accompanied by a short description highlighting the particular relevance of each paper. text/html 2010-07-31T16:59:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/patterns?rev=1280595578&do=diff Pattern Matching Stijn Mostinckx Research topic which contemplates the extension of AmbientTalk's type tag system, such that type tags can have optional arguments. These arguments can be used to deconstruct objects in pattern matching expressions as will be shown below. text/html 2009-12-02T10:50:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/posters?rev=1259751039&do=diff Posters This page provides an overview of the various posters related to Ambient-Oriented Programming. A pdf version of each poster is available, together with a brief abstract describing it. Ambient-Oriented Programming in AmbientTalk Jessie Dedecker Abstract Software development for mobile devices (such as smart phones and PDA’s) is given a new impetus with the advent of mobile networks. Mobile networks surround a mobile device equipped with wireless technology and are demarcated dynami… text/html 2009-11-30T15:50:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/presentations?rev=1259596226&do=diff Presentations This page provides an overview of the presentations we have prepared related to Ambient-Oriented Programming. A PDF version of each set of slides is available, together with a brief abstract describing it. AmbientTalk: Event-driven OOP for MANETs We describe AmbientTalk, a distributed object-oriented language designed specifically for developing programs that run in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). AmbientTalk deals with the universal characteristics of MANETs (e.g. the fact tha… text/html 2010-07-31T16:23:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/recap?rev=1280593392&do=diff Reactive Context-Aware Programming Stijn Mostinckx Reactive Context-Aware Programming (ReCAP) extends the ambient-oriented programming paradigm to tailor it for the Internet of Things (IoT): a network environment in which physical objects are given an embedded digital representation. text/html 2011-09-12T16:50:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/rfid?rev=1315846238&do=diff Distributed Object-Oriented Programming with RFID Technology Representing RFID-tagged physical objects as mutable software objects. Kevin Pinte and Andoni Lombide Carreton futher reading RFID-enabled Library The RFID-enabled library is a mobile RFID-enabled application (MoREnA) and illustrates the kind of application we target. The application runs on a mobile device, such as a smartphone and shows the books that are in the vicinity of the user and allows certain operations to be performed o… text/html 2010-07-31T12:59:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/rp?rev=1280581199&do=diff Reactive Programming Stijn Mostinckx and Andoni Lombide Carreton further reading AmbientTalk/R Distributed Semantics Up to this point, reactive values -- and the dataflow networks constructed using them -- have been confined to the scope of a single actor. At present, we are experimenting with two mechanisms to allow dataflow dependencies to cross the actor boundary. Both techniques are briefly described below. text/html 2010-10-21T11:31:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/research/tuples?rev=1287660718&do=diff Tuple Space-based Abstractions Christophe Scholliers and Elisa Gonzalez Boix Tuple spaces were first introduced in the coordination language Linda. A tuple space is a shared associative memory used by processes to communicate. Processes can post and read tuples using three basic operations: out to insert a tuple into the tuple space, in to remove a tuple from the tuple space and rd to check if a tuple is present in the tuple space (without removing it). Tuples are anonymous and are extracted f…