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===== People ===== | ===== People ===== | ||
- | The people behind the AmbientTalk project | + | 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 == | == Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter == | ||
- | [[ http://prog.vub.ac.be/doku.php? | + | [[ http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/wolfwiki/ |
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. | 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. | ||
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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:// | 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:// | ||
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- | == Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | ||
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- | 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// | ||
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- | For further information about my work please visit my [[http:// | ||
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- | == Andoni Lombide Carreton | + | == Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix== |
- | [[http:// | + | [[http:// |
- | The dynamic nature | + | My PhD research focused 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 |
- | This poses a problem when we look at the new generation of disposable processing hardware, | + | This research identified |
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- | I am currently looking | + | |
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- | == Stijn Mostinckx == | + | == Dr. Christophe Scholliers == |
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- | 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: | + | |
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- | 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: | + | |
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- | == Christophe Scholliers == | + | |
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in its environment. Currently, I am working on an extension of this model that allows applications to work on shared and replicated data. | 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. | 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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- | == Stijn Timbermont | + | == Kevin Pinte == |
- | In an Ambient Intelligent setting, various kinds of hardware are involved, each with its own characteristics. To allow abstraction over the different devices, | + | Our everyday environment will soon be pervaded with RFID tags, tiny chips that can be integrated into any physical object. The tags can store and distribute information about the object or its environment. RFID technology is a key technology in developing pervasive context-aware applications. |
- | This reseach proposes a new way to develop | + | I am investigating |
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+ | Currently programming such applications | ||
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+ | You can find more information about my work [[: | ||
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- | == Jorge Vallejos | + | == Dries Harnie |
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- | The focus of my research | + | Thanks to the work of the other people on this page, programming applications for mobile devices |
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+ | In the Real World(tm) we do group communication without giving it a second thought, changing conversation topics as people leave and rejoin | ||
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+ | My research | ||
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- | == Dr. Tom Van Cutsem | + | == Lode Hoste == |
- | [[http:// | + | [[http:// |
- | Specific to my PhD thesis, my research lies in uncovering novel referencing and communication abstractions for mobile ad hoc networks. More specifically, | ||
- | Within the research | + | My research |
- | Apart from AmOP, my general | + | |
+ | The relation of my research | ||
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=== Former Members === | === Former Members === | ||
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Apart from my research on AmOP I also have a general interest in dynamic object-oriented programming languages, concurrency and distribution. | Apart from my research on AmOP I also have a general interest in dynamic object-oriented programming languages, concurrency and distribution. | ||
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+ | == Dr. Tom Van Cutsem == | ||
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+ | Specific to my PhD thesis, my research lied in uncovering novel referencing and communication abstractions for mobile ad hoc networks. More specifically, | ||
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+ | Within the research track of ambient-oriented programming, | ||
+ | Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented programming languages (reuse/ | ||
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+ | == Stijn Mostinckx == | ||
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+ | In the past, I have contributed to the formulation of the ambient-oriented programming paradigm and have co-designed the current incarnation of AmbientTalk. | ||
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+ | A first element of the solution I propose is the use of pattern matching rules to succinctly describe which changes to the environment are relevant. | ||
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+ | The second element of the proposed solution is the use of [[research: | ||
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+ | The approach that combines and integrates these elements is the [[research: | ||
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+ | == Dr. Jorge Vallejos == | ||
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+ | The focus of my PhD research is to investigate the context-awareness property in the field of Ambient Intelligence. My particular interest is to explore the ways in which the computational context surrounding mobile applications, | ||
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+ | == Dr. Andoni Lombide Carreton == | ||
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+ | The dynamic nature of ambient oriented applications makes it impossible to structure them as monolithic programs with a fixed input and output. Instead, a distributed event-driven architecture is required. Current event-driven architectures require distributed application components to react to events via a carefully crafted network of observers, event handlers or callback mechanisms which are scattered throughout the application code and can be triggered at any point in time. Such architectures are hard to develop, understand and maintain in all but the most trivial cases. | ||
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+ | This poses a problem when we look at the new generation of disposable processing hardware, such as RFID tags. Ubiquitous applications will not only consist of peer-to-peer interactions, | ||
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+ | In my Phd dissertation, | ||
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+ | == Dr. Eline Philips == | ||
+ | Nomadic networks fill the gap between fixed networks and mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) as they consist of a group of mobile devices that can move around dynamically while trying to maintain a connection with a fixed infrastructure. My research focusses on the coordination of nomadic services by making use of workflows as they provide an additional layer of abstraction such that interactions among application components can be specified on a higher level and be reused because of their loose coupling with the fine-grained application logic. Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | AmbientTalk is a programming language which treats disconnections at the very heart of its computational model. Moreover, the language supports dynamic service discovery which is opportune for nomadic networks. Although this language is suited for writing applications for MANETs, the orchestration of these applications is still programmed in an ad hoc manner. Complex nomadic applications that consist of asynchronously executing distributed services become hard to develop, understand and reuse. I am currently working on the addition of an abstraction layer on top of AmbientTalk which implements | ||
+ | workflow patterns. I am investigating which new patterns for nomadic networks can be added to this abstraction layer. Concretely, I want support for intensional descriptions of services, group communication, | ||
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