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 ===== People =====
-The people behind the AmbientTalk project are: 1 professor, 1 post-doc researcher and 6 PhD students from the [[http://prog.vub.ac.be|Programming Technology Laboratory]] of the [[http://www.vub.ac.be|Vrije Universiteit Brussel]].
+These are the people behind the AmbientTalk project of the [[http://soft.vub.ac.be|Software Languages Lab]].
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-//Part of the ambient group in June 2007. From left to right: Jorge Vallejos, Jessie Dedecker, Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Stijn Timbermont, Wolfgang De Meuter, Tom Van Cutsem.//
 == Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter ==
-[[ http://prog.vub.ac.be/doku.php?id=wolfwiki |Homepage ]]
+[[ http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/wolfwiki/start |Homepage ]]
 In the past, I have been active in the design and formalisation of prototype-based object-oriented programming languages. After a small detour in AOP (where I introduced monads in AOP and identified the need for cflow with jumping aspects), I'm currently working with the ambient group on the design and implementation of ambient-oriented programming languages. My current mission is to come up with language constructs that make writing software for loosely coupled (mobile) distributed systems as much fun as writing sequential programs in languages like Scheme, Smalltalk or Haskell. This is done by inventing new programming language abstractions and by hiding the technical burden as much as possible in the interpreter of those languages.
 Keywords are repls, interpreters, dynamic typing, higher-order, first-class, reflection, object, actor and above all: simplicity!
-As usual, the professor is not the one doing the real work. Please read on for more details on our research. It has received international recognition by the fact that Wolfgang has won the [[[ http://www.aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/2008.html | Dahl-Nygaard Award]] in 2008.
+As usual, the professor is not the one doing the real work. Please read on for more details on our research. It has received international recognition by the fact that Wolfgang has won the [[ http://www.aito.org/Dahl-Nygaard/2008.html | Dahl-Nygaard Award]] in 2008.
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 [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~egonzale|Homepage]]
-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. For further information about my work please visit the [[research:dgc|semi-automatic garbage collection]] section.
+My research focuses on investigating programming language support to deal with the effects engendered by partial failures in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In MANETs many partial failures are the result of temporary network partitions due to the intermittent connectivity of mobile devices. Some of these failures will be permanent and require application-level failure handling. However, it is impossible to distinguish a permanent from a transient failure. Leasing provides a solution to this problem based on the temporal restriction of resources.
+This research identifies a number of criteria for a leasing model specially designed for MANETs and proposes the //leased object references// model which exhibits such criteria. Leased object references combine leasing with asynchronous communication into one coherent language abstraction that deals with both transient and permanent disconnections. We explore a language approach where dedicated language support is provided such that low-level leasing management concerns (e.g. lease renewal) can be abstracted away, and enables both lease holders (clients) and lease grantors (services) to deal with permanent failures.
+For further information about my work please visit my [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~egonzale/wiki/doku.php?id=research|research page]].
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-== Andoni Lombide ==
+== Andoni Lombide Carreton ==
 [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/~alombide|Homepage]]
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 I am currently looking into programming abstractions that allow to specify which events to capture by distributed application components in a mobile ad hoc network. Furthermore, I am trying to come up with mechanisms that allow reacting to these events without relying on event handlers or other callback mechanisms. Finally, low level events should be processed (e.g. by combining them) such that they are on the semantic level of the application.
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+== Dries Harnie ==
+Thanks to the work of the other people on this page, programming applications for mobile devices is now as easy as, say, writing a blog. However, research so far has focused on one-to-one communication and how the properties of MANETs disrupt it.
+In the Real World(tm) we do group communication without giving it a second thought, changing conversation topics as people leave and rejoin the group. Likewise, we effortlessly do service composition: comparing prices for stuff we want to buy or finding interesting activities for a trip. Doing these things with current technology requires a lot of "bookkeeping code" because it can only track the connectivity of one link at a time.
+My research intends to provide abstractions that bind a number of services residing on different mobile devices into coherent entities. Programmers can then use these abstractions to communicate with groups of services as easily as with single services.
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