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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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