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 My area of interest is memory management for distributed systems. More specifically, my research is focused on how to reconcile distributed garbage collection (DGC) with the characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks. I am currently investigating a novel family of DGC called [[research:dgc|semi-automatic garbage collection]] and the required language constructs.
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 == Andoni Lombide ==
+[[http://prog.vub.ac.be/~alombide|Homepage]]
+I am interested in how to expressively integrate distribution and concurrency with dynamic, object-oriented programming. I am currently looking into programming abstractions that should allow the inherent concurrency of mobile networks consisting of heterogenous devices (such as RFID tags, sensors...) to be exploited in an expressive way.
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 [[http://prog.vub.ac.be/~smostinc|Homepage]]
-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.
+The goal of my research is the development of elegant programming models which allow applications to respond to dynamic changes in their environment. As a means to detect such changes, we explore the [[crime:factspaces|Fact Space Model]], which provides a means to reason about one's current context.
-I am currently investigating how an [[research:exceptions|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.
+My ongoing research investigates which abstractions can be used to handle the events produced by an implementation of the fact space model. An interesting path that I am currently exploring is the use of [[research:recap|reactive context-aware programming]].
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 == 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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