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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== | ||
- | [[http:// | ||
- | 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// | ||
- | For further information about my work please visit my [[http:// | + | ===== |
+ | == Prof. Dr. Elisa Gonzalez Boix== | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | 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 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. | ||
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+ | This research identified a number of criteria for a leasing model specially designed for MANETs and proposes the //leased object references// | ||
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- | == Andoni Lombide Carreton | + | == Dr. Christophe Scholliers |
- | [[http://soft.vub.ac.be/ | + | [[http://wilma.vub.ac.be/ |
- | The dynamic nature of ambient oriented | + | Current-day |
+ | applications such as browsers, calendar | ||
+ | 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 | ||
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+ | Last year, I have been involved in the development | ||
+ | extension to the tuple space model which provides fine-grained control over the effects of disconnections. | ||
+ | Using a declarative language, every device | ||
+ | in its environment. Currently, I am working on an extension of this model that allows applications to work on shared | ||
+ | The use of weak data replication | ||
- | 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, | ||
- | 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, | ||
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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. | 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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+ | == Lode Hoste == | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | My research focuses on investigating programming language support to deal with the massive amount of concurrent events generated by various input devices. By providing adequate software abstractions for correlating multiple input devices we try to encourage multimodal gestural interaction and ease their implementations. | ||
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+ | The relation of my research and AmOP is the // | ||
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- | == Stijn Mostinckx == | ||
- | [[http:// | ||
- | 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: | + | === Former Members === |
- | 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]]. | + | == Dr. Jessie Dedecker == |
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | My current research topic revolves around collaborative ambient-oriented programming abstractions. | ||
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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. | ||
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- | == Eline Philips | + | == Dr. Tom Van Cutsem |
- | 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, | + | [[http:// |
- | volatility. | + | |
- | 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 | + | Specific to my PhD thesis, my research lied in uncovering novel referencing and communication abstractions |
- | 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 | + | |
+ | 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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- | == Christophe Scholliers == | ||
- | [[http:// | ||
- | Current-day applications for mobile phones and PDAs are often limited to miniature versions of standard desktop | + | == Stijn Mostinckx == |
- | 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, | + | |
- | Last year, I have been involved in the development of (a concrete implementation | + | In the past, I have contributed to the formulation |
- | extension to the tuple space model which provides fine-grained control over the effects | + | |
- | Using a declarative language, every device can specify how it will adjust its behaviour in response to dynamic changes | + | |
- | in its environment. Currently, | + | |
- | The use of weak data replication | + | |
+ | 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. | ||
- | ===== | + | The second element |
- | == Stijn Timbermont == | + | |
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- | In an Ambient Intelligent setting, various kinds of hardware are involved, each with its own characteristics. To allow abstraction over the different devices, a standard virtual machine approach is not feasible because it is not possible to abstract over all the devices at the same time. Instead, each device will require an individually adapted virtual machine. | + | |
- | This reseach proposes a new way to develop virtual machines for Ambient Intelligence. Instead of manually modifying the virtual machine for of a particular device, the virtual machine can be generated by composing reusable modules. | + | The approach that combines and integrates these elements |
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- | == Jorge Vallejos == | + | == Dr. Jorge Vallejos == |
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- | == Dr. Tom Van Cutsem | + | == Dr. Andoni Lombide Carreton |
- | [[http:// | + | [[http:// |
- | Specific | + | The dynamic nature of ambient oriented applications makes it impossible |
- | Within | + | This poses a problem when we look at the new generation |
- | Apart from AmOP, my general research interests include dynamic object-oriented | + | |
+ | In my Phd dissertation, | ||
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- | === Former Members === | + | == 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, | ||
+ | volatility. | ||
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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, | ||
- | == Dr. Jessie Dedecker == | ||
- | [[http:// | ||
- | My current research topic revolves around collaborative ambient-oriented programming abstractions. | ||
- | 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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