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Summer School on Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Objects

August 29 - September 3, 2005, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany

Participants


ParticipantAffiliationCountry
Aylin AksuSabanci UniversityTurkey
Muneeb AliComputer Science Department, LUMSPakistan
Jacob AndersenDepartment of Computer Science, University of AarhusDenmark
can baþaranYeditepe University Computer Engineering DepartmentTurkey
Zinaida BenensonRWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science 4Germany
Reinhard BischoffEmpaSwitzerland
Urs BischoffLancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom
Paul BowmanUnited Kingdom
Jeppe BrønstedUniversity of Arhus, Computer Science DepartmentDenmark
Maria Victoria Bueno DelgadoPolythecnic University of CartagenaEspana
Paolo CasariUniversity of PadovaItaly
Sara CoverdaleUnited Kingdom
Julia DownesGraduate of University of North Florida, currently working at Sonaptic LtdUnited Kingdom
Cormac DuffyUniversity College Cork, D-SYSTEMSIreland
Ozlem Durmaz IncelPhd StudentNetherlands
Robert EignerProf. Dr. J. Schlichter, Technical University of MunichGermany
Onur ErginMSc Student and Research Assistant at Yeditepe UniversityTurkey
Benjamin FabianHumboldt University BerlinGermany
Elisabetta FarellaDEIS - University of BolognaItaly
Elena FasoloUniversity of PadovaItaly
Szymon FedorRINCE, Dublin City UniversityIreland
Christian FrankETH ZurichSwitzerland
Gerhard FuchsUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Informatik 7Germany
Matthias GaugerUniversity of StuttgartGermany
Pablo GuerreroDatabases and Distributed Systems GroupGermany
Cyrus HallUniversity of LuganoSwitzerland
Kasper HallenborgMaersk Institute, University of Southern DenmarkDenmark
Ezra HochIsrael
Clemens HolzmannDepartment of Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria
Marcin KarpinskiDistributed Systems Group at CS Department, Trinity College, Dublin, IrelandIreland
Hans-Joerg KoerberHelmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces HamburgGermany
Ioannis KrontirisResearch Assistant, Athens Information TechnologyGreece
Mickaël Le BaillifIRISA / INRIA RennesFrance
Yann-Ael Le BorgneUniversite Libre de BruxellesBelgium
Mihai Marin-PerianuUniversity of TwenteNetherlands
Alejandro Martinez-SalaSpain
Michael McHughCDVP, Dublin City UniversityIreland
Steffen MeckeUniversity of KarlsruheGermany
Thomas MenzelTU BerlinGermany
David MerrillMIT Media LabUSA
Christian MetzgerInformation Management, ETH ZürichSwitzerland
Antonio MiragliaDipartimento di Ingegneria Università del Sannio in Benevento ItalyItaly
Selene MotaTechnical University of Eindhoven (Tu/e) in the NetherlandsNetherlands
Kavitha MuthukrishnanUniversity of TwenteNetherlands
Michele NatiComputer Science Department at Rome UniversityItaly
Luca NegriPolitecnico di MilanoItaly
Thomas NicolaiUniversity of St.Gallen - Institute for Media and Communications ManagementSwitzerland
Dan O'KeeffeUniversity of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryUnited Kingdom
Dikaios PapadogkonasUnited Kingdom
Stefan ResmeritaInstitute for Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler UniversityAustria
Silvia SantiniETH ZurichSwitzerland
Ingo SimonisUniversity of Muenster, Institute for GeoinformaticsGermany
Patrik SpießDoctoral Student at SAP Research / University of KarlsruheGermany
Giovanni VaniniPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e InformazioneItaly
Andrea VitalettiDIS - University of RomeItaly
Timo VuorelaTampere University of Technology / Institute of ElectronicsFinland
Pasi VälkkynenVTT Information TechnologyFinland
Lucas WannerFederal University of Santa CatarinaBrazil
William WongCambridge UniversityUnited Kingdom
Eiko YonekiUniversity of Cambridge, Computer LaboratoryUnited Kingdom



Aylin Aksu

Aylin Aksu

Sabanci University
Sabanci University Campus, Orhanli, Tuzla
Istanbul 34956
Turkey

Email: aylinaksu@su.sabanciuniv.edu
Phone: 90 216 483 9999-4058
I am a Msc student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences- Telecommunications Program at Sabanci University. I have been working on the "energy efficiency and lifetime prolongation with cooperative routing in wireless ad hoc networks" as my master thesis with my advisor Assist. Prof. Dr. Ozgur Ercetin.

I am specially interested in wireless sensor networks, as in my graduation design project, Agricultural Automation by Wireless Sensor Networks, I have been working on the building up of an energy efficient wireless sensor network that tracks the temperature and soil conditions, delivering this information to a central monitor for monitoring agricultural environment. The main phases of the project are the setting up of a sensor network test bed -using Berkeley Motes and TinyOs- and determining the transmission powers and the set of nodes for sensing so that network lifetime is maximized for a given accuracy. This work with a far more studying on it, has been fruitful since it has turned into a publication:
O. Ercetin, K. Bulbul, O. Gurbuz, and A. Aksu, �Joint Sensor Selection and Data Routing in Sensor Networks,� NETWORKING 2005, LNCS 3462, R. Boutaba et al. (Eds.), pp. 828�839, 2005.

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Muneeb Ali

Muneeb Ali Muneeb Ali

Computer Science Department, LUMS
Opposite Sector 'U', DHA
Lahore, Punjab 54792
Pakistan

Email: muneeb@lums.edu.pk
Phone: +923004218562
Fax: 92-42-5722591
Web: http://suraj.lums.edu.pk/~muneeb/
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BIOGRAPHY:
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Muneeb Ali did his BS in Computer Science from LUMS in 2003. He is a Research Associate at the Networks and Communications Lab at LUMS since early 2003. He served as president of the ACM LUMS Chapter (2001-2002), and as founding president of LUMS Linux Users Group (2002). He received the ACM Excellence Award for outstanding Chapter Website (2000-2001). He is a member of ACM, IEEE, USENIX and inducted member of Pakistan Research Support Network (VTTP).
Email: muneeb@lums.edu.pk
Webpage: http://suraj.lums.edu.pk/~muneeb/

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
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His primary research focus is on wireless ad-hoc sensor networks. Broadly, he is interested in computer networks, large-scale distributed systems, mobile and wireless systems, and ubiquitous computing with a focus on designing algorithms and systems with strong theoretical foundations, and in providing practical implementations.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
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[1] Muneeb Ali, T. Suleman, and Z. A. Uzmi, MMAC: A Mobility-Adaptive, Collision-Free MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, In IEEE International Workshop on Strategies for Energy Efficiency in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, part of 24th IEEE IPCCC 2005, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

[2] Muneeb Ali, and Z. A. Uzmi, An Energy-Efficient Node Address Naming Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, In IEEE International Networking and Communications Conference (INCC 2004), June 2004.

[3] Muneeb Ali, and Z. A. Uzmi, CSN: A Network Protocol for Serving Dynamic Queries in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks, In 2nd Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2004), Fredericton, N.B, Canada, May 2004.

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Jacob Andersen

Jacob Andersen Jacob Andersen

Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus
Aabogade 34
Aarhus N 8200
Denmark

Email: andersen@daimi.au.dk
Phone: +4561704305
I am a Ph.d. student working with ad-hoc wireless networks of Biomedical sensors (hospital and trauma/emergency settings). My focus is constructing a software architecture for these sensors that allows (among other things):
- Extremely simple use and setup (Life critical use means no time to "fight" the equipment).
- Security (medical data are confidential).
- Scalability (imagine several sensors on each victim of a major train accident assembled in a small triage area)
- Integration of sensor data and control with EPR systems.
- Etc.

I just started my ph.d. a few months ago, and I am planning to use Berkeley motes or similar devices for my prototype development.

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can baþaran

can baþaran

Yeditepe University Computer Engineering Department
inýnu cad. sumko sit. m6/6 blok
istanbul, kozyatagi 34934
Turkey

Email: basaran_can@yahoo.com
Phone: 05377937584
I have just graduated from computer engineering department of Yeditepe University undergraduate program. My engineering project was an integrated development environment and emulator for Motorola 6800 MP. Now I will to participate in the SeMA project (Session Based Mobile AdHoc Network Architecture - http://ics.yeditepe.edu.tr/tnl/html/sema.html). I would like to work on sensor networks throughout my graduate degree.

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Zinaida Benenson

Zinaida Benenson Zinaida Benenson

RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science 4
Ahornstr. 55
Aachen 52056
Germany

Email: zina@i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Web: http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~zina/
I'm a PhD student in computer science at the RWTH Aachen University. My research interests are secure distributed systems and multi-party cryptographic protocols, especially with regard to sensor networks.

Securing sensor networks requires careful design decisions on which protection goals are necessary and sufficient for a particular class of applications. Besides, designing sensor networks with security in mind calls for novel solutions in all domains, from hardware and radio communication to data aggregation and query processing.

Currently, my research focuses on algorithms for access control to sensor network data.

I'm also interested in dependability issues in sensor networks and consider dependability and security as complementary design goals for computer systems.

Selected publications:

Zinaida Benenson:
Authenticated Queries in Sensor Networks.
2nd European Workshop on Security and Privacy in Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (ESAS), July 2005, Visegrad, Hungary.

Zinaida Benenson, Nils Gedicke, Ossi Raivio:
Realizing Robust User Authentication in Sensor Networks.
Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN), June 2005, Stockholm, Sweden.

Zinaida Benenson, Felix C. Freiling:
On the Feasibility and Meaning of Security in Sensor Networks.
4th GI/ITG KuVS Discussion "Wireless Sensor Networks", March 2005, Zurich, Switzerland.

Zinaida Benenson, Felix C. Gärtner, Dogan Kesdogan:
An Algorithmic Framework for Robust Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks.
2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), January 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Reinhard Bischoff

Reinhard Bischoff Reinhard Bischoff

Empa
Überlandstrasse 129
Dübendorf 8600
Switzerland

Email: reinhard.bischoff@empa.ch
Phone: 01 823 4445
CV:
- MSc in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology completed in autumn '04 at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
- Currently working as researcher at Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa).

Current Work:
- Development of a wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring applications

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Urs Bischoff

Urs Bischoff Urs Bischoff

Lancaster University
Computing Department, InfoLab 21, South Drive
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4WA
United Kingdom

Email: u.bischoff@lancs.ac.uk
Phone: +441524510367
I am a PhD candidate at Lancaster University where I work in the EIS group. My supervisors are Hans-Werner Gellersen and Gerd Kortuem. I am interested in different aspects of smart objects and sensor networks. As part of my research about cooperative artefact networks I have been engaged in localisation and spatial reasoning in these networks. In terms of my dissertation I am working on the concept of a life-long memory for smart objects. Currently, my main interests are therefore the study of spatial and temporal aspects in the cooperation of smart objects and the efficient representation of object histories.

I hold a diploma in computer science from ETH Zurich and an M.Sc. in computer science from Georgia Tech. At ETH I wrote my diploma thesis in the research group of Bernt Schiele. The research was part of the Smart-Its project. I evaluated the feasibility of implementing proactive instructions for furniture assembly on wireless sensor nodes. At Georgia Tech I became interested in the human-computer interface and other aspects in the design process of interactive systems. Furthermore, I worked on algorithms for compressing geometry of 3D datasets.

http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~bischoff/">Homepage

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Paul Bowman

Paul Bowman Paul Bowman


BT, Orion Bldg, Floor. 3, Room 7, PP4, Adastral Park
Ipswich, Suffolk IP5 3RE
United Kingdom

Email: paul.bowman@bt.com
Phone: +44 1473 644105
Having been involved in a wide range of telecommunications activities at BT (British Telecommunications) in the UK, I am currently a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Pervasive ICT engaged in a number of M2M, RFID and dense wireless activities with the current focus being the development and deployment of a sensor network to support a collaborative research project aimed at determining the well-being of elderly people living alone at home.

This research into well-being has culminated in a trial sensor network being installed into two ‘real’ homes and although this activity currently has a very specific aim, it is starting to open up other potential applications in the intelligent spaces domain.

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Jeppe Brønsted

Jeppe Brønsted Jeppe Brønsted

University of Arhus, Computer Science Department
Åbogade 34
Århus N 8200
Denmark

Email: jb@daimi.au.dk
Phone: +89425665
I am a PhD. student at the computer science department at the University of Aarhus in Denmark affiliated with the LIWAS project – a life saving traffic warning system (www.liwas.dk – in Danish). The idea is to mount an array of sensors on cars and alongside roads that detect road slipperiness. This information is distributed to the driver and to other cars with the LIWAS system using WiFi ad hoc communication backed up by GSM/SMS communication in case of low network density. The current status of the project is that a first prototype of the sensors have been constructed and tested in the field. The next step is to implement the communication part of the system.

My focus of research is ad hoc protocols for mobile sensor networks. The sensor system classifies the status of the road up to 36 times per second, and therefore the amount of data traveling in the network is potentially large. This amount of information should be translated into a good resolution model of the road without congesting the network too much.

Two protocols for the LIWAS system based on geographic flooding and aggregation have been implemented and simulated using the network simulator ns2.

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Maria Victoria Bueno Delgado

Maria Victoria Bueno Delgado

Polythecnic University of Cartagena
Doctor Fleming s/n
Cartagena, Murcia 30201
Espana

Email: mvictoria.bueno@upct.es
Phone: 679229355
Web: http://www.upct.es
2002- Technical Telecomunication Engineering, Telematics degree from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (Spain)

2004- Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena(Spain)

Since September 2004 - I am working in an novel industrial project (www.ecomovistand.com) designing active tags and developing communication protocols focused in efficient power consumption with simulator tool OMNeT++.

Since October 2004 - I am studing the first course of Ph.D at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain. I am working on Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID with Professor Joan Garcia Haro.

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Paolo Casari

Paolo Casari Paolo Casari

University of Padova
via G. Gradenigo, 6/B
Padova, PD 35161
Italy

Email: pcasari@gmail.com
Phone: 049 8277753
I have been working since the last year of my University course in the field of Sensor Networks. My thesis topic was also on Sensor Networks, in particular on the simulation of GeRaF, a promising geographic forwarding algorithm by Rao and Zorzi. In Oct 2004, I started a collaboration with the University of Ferrara with sensor networks as the main research issue.
Since Jan 2005, I started a Ph'D Course in Telecommunication Engineering at University of Padova studying the problem of MAC and Routing in Ad Hoc networks formed by nodes equipped with multiple antennas. I am currently involved in both fields of research as a Ph'D student at the University of Padova. My main research interests are focused on wireless sensor and ad hoc networks. More in particular, I'm interested in the development of MAC and routing algorithms, exploitance of cross-layer interactions, on multiuser cooperation diversity, smart broadcasting and on neighbor discovery algorithms.

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Sara Coverdale

Sara Coverdale


4A Redbourne Drive, Aspley
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG8 3LR
United Kingdom

Email: szc@cs.nott.ac.uk
Phone: +447779266584
I am a BEng Computer Science graduate in the first year of my PhD with the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham. My area of research is spatial- and context-aware, mobile, distributed systems, and their applications. I am currently extending the Equip system (http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/~cmg/Equator/) to apply spatial, awareness-based information delivery techniques, used in Virtual Reality Environments like Massive, to combined real and virtual environments. From this I hope to gain insights into the benefits of, and problems with, reasoning both across and within the real and virtual worlds that users today inhabit.

In distributed and mobile computing I am largely self-taught as the university at which I studied my undergraduate degree (York) does not have a strong research background in the field and provides only one theoretical networking module for its undergraduate students. I believe this summer school will provide me with a broader view of mobile technologies, and their real-world applications and weaknesses, than I have been able to attain through personal study. I am especially interested in the wireless sensor networks, middleware, and interaction topics and feel further knowledge of these would immensely benefit my research at this stage.

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Julia Downes

Julia Downes Julia Downes

Graduate of University of North Florida, currently working at Sonaptic Ltd
29 Kings Barn Lane
Steyning, West Sussex BN44 3YR
United Kingdom

Email: jdownes@z6.com
Phone: +44(0) 7939 220190
I have been researching in the field of wireless sensor networks and mobile ad-hoc networks - both as a student and research assistant at the University of North Florida. My thesis presented the results of a project between the university and the National Weather Service USA, to provide real-time mesoscale weather data from wirelessly connected sensor nodes. The National Weather Service is currently implementing the solution, and a paper describing the work is due for publication in the autumn ("Wireless Ad-Hoc Environmental Sensor Networks: Protocols and Setups"). My attention so far, has focussed on the real-time gathering and distribution of information from low-complexity nodes with low-power protocols, including 802.15.4 and the Zone Routing Protocol. Following this research I am particularly interested in the interaction between different sensor devices and the establishment of protocols to facilitate connectivity between the many platforms and device types. I believe that only when devices can overcome their heterogeneous nature and interact spontaneously, will ubiquitous computing become a reality.

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Cormac Duffy

Cormac Duffy

University College Cork, D-SYSTEMS
Apartment 9, Waterside Quay, Hanover st
Cork, Munster CORK
Ireland

Email: cd5@cs.ucc.ie
Phone: +353 87 2039750
After committing to PhD study, I felt it was important to gain a good background in the wireless sensor network paradigm, so for the first four months I focused on a wide variety of Wireless Sensor Network research topics, which I believe has given me a good base in which to begin my research and focus my PhD research objective, to research the possibility of sensor networks in time critical environments.

I felt it was important to analyse and compare a small variety of operating systems, so under the encouragement of my supervisor I began to learn avr-c programming and port two operating systems to UCCs sensor platform the dsys25. During that period I undertook a 2 week oversees project with the collaboration of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) to port the SICS’s contiki operating system, which in addition to being a project success has formed a good academic relationship.

To date I have found that good research has only been possible with the suggestions support of other researchers. I think that given the opportunity to socialise with other academic researchers in the same field of study would be invaluable, and will hopefully lead collaborative projects and in the short term a joint publication. The class lectures, in addition to complementing my knowledge of the wireless sensor network paradigm would give me a chance to meet and question leading researchers in the TinyOS field. I feel the workshops would jump start my TinyOS knowledge and hopefully my study will be sufficient to influence and assist other researchers.

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Ozlem Durmaz Incel

Ozlem Durmaz Incel

Phd Student
University of Twente, Department of Computer Science, PO-Box 217
Enschede 7500AE
Netherlands

Email: durmazo@cs.utwente.nl
Phone: +31 534893798
Web: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~durmazo/
Research areas:Distributed Systems and Algorithms, Wireless Ad hoc & Sensor Networks.

Short bio: I got my Msc. from Yeditepe University, Turkey. The master thesis was entitled, "Reliable Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks". Currently I am a Phd student in the University of Twente, Netherlands. My current research is Resource Management and QoS issues in WSN an I'm with the SmartSurroundings Project.

Publications:
# S.Baydere,Y.Safkan,Ö.Durmaz, Lifetime Analysis of Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Volume E88-B, Number 6, June 2005.
# Ö.Durmaz, Reliable Data Delivery in Wireless Sensor Networks (REWISE), Msc. Thesis, Yeditepe University, January 2005.
# Impact of Message Aggregation and Reliability on Sensor Network Lifetime, Özlem Durmaz, Sebnem Baydere, Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications, (SANPA 2004), Boston, August 22, 2004.
# Constructing Wireless Sensor Networks via Effective Topology Maintenance and Querying, Sebnem Baydere, Mesut Ali Ergin, Özlem Durmaz, Proc. of the Third Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2004), Bodrum, June 27-30, 2004.

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Robert Eigner

Robert Eigner Robert Eigner

Prof. Dr. J. Schlichter, Technical University of Munich
Boltzmannstrasse 3
Garching bei Muenchen 85748
Germany

Email: eigner@in.tum.de
Phone: +49 89 289-18684
Fax: +49 89 289-18657
Web: http://www11.in.tum.de/lehrstuhl/personen/eigner/
Biography

I studied computer science at the Technische Universität München and became are research staff member at the chair Informatik XI: Applied Informatics / Cooperative Systems, Prof. Dr. J. Schlichter in September 2004. I'm working towards a PhD in the field of context-aware applications for mobile ad-hoc networks.

Research Interests

I'm currently involved in the NOW project, which is short for "networks on wheels" and aims at specifying and standardising a communication system for transmission of sensor data und further information (e.g. hazard warnings) between vehicles based on standard WLAN technologies. The system is going to be demonstrated in a reference implementation conducted by several German car manufacturers.

Our task is to conduct research in the field of applications for mobile ad-hoc networks in order to design, implement and deploy suitable applications. We distinguish between two application classes: active safety applications for driver assistance und the minimisation of the number of accidents severity of accidents. The second class consists of the so-called deployment applications that come from the fields of information, entertainment and driving comfort. Deployment applications are necessary to provide a visible added value to users already in early stages of the NOW network in order to support the spread of NOW technology as long as the system is not fully functional due to low market penetration.

Concerning active safety applications, our goal is to select, specify and implement promising applications. Another aim is to gain information about the behaviour and of application and the impact they have on the traffic situation. We try to collect this information by conduction of simulation of representative scenarios, simulating both mobility (of network nodes = vehicles) by using traffic simulators and network behaviour by using network simulators, e.g. ns-2.
Besides from that, our tasks are especially:
- Selection of evaluation criteria for applications
- Evaluation of application with the criteria found
- Design and formal specification of applications
- Specification of APIs to user interfaces and control components
- Specification of application-specific message formats and communication protocols on application layer
- Simulation of application behaviour in depending on market penetration
- Implementation of a prototype
- Test and integration in the NOW reference system
- Standardisation of interfaces
- Documentation

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Onur Ergin

Onur Ergin Onur Ergin

MSc Student and Research Assistant at Yeditepe University
Yeditepe Universitesi 26 Agustos Yerlesimi Kayisdagi / Kadikoy
Istanbul 34755
Turkey

Email: moergin@cse.yeditepe.edu.tr
Phone: 2165780429
Web: http://cse.yeditepe.edu.tr/tnl/wisent/htmls/people/moergin.html
I am continueing my studies in the area of ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. During my BSc studies, I fulfilled the implementation of a service discovery and routing protocol, SeMA.

Currently I am working as a research assistant at Yeditepe University with Prof. Sebnem Baydere. Our research group is a partner of Embedded Wisents. Also, my studies in the area of wireless sensor networks are continueing.

From summer school, I expect to know the studies of other partners and share our experiences. I also want to know about other research and developement environments used by different groups and want to see how we can speed up our studies and in what ways we can support each other.

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Benjamin Fabian

Benjamin Fabian Benjamin Fabian

Humboldt University Berlin
Ruhlebener Str. 141 F
Berlin 13597
Germany

Email: bfabian@wiwi.hu-berlin.de
While my initial background is mathematics I spent some years in practical IT security including work as security analyst for an international managed security service provider. Since beginning of 2005 I am back to science as Ph.D. student at the Institute of Information Systems, Humboldt University Berlin.
I am project co-manager at HU for the study "Technology Assessment of Ubiquitous Computing and Informational Self-determination" (TAUCIS) on behalf of the German BMBF. My current research interests include ad-hoc, sensor and p2p network security, IPv6, RFID and the EPC network.

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Elisabetta Farella

Elisabetta Farella

DEIS - University of Bologna
v.le Risorgimento 2
Bologna 40136
Italy

Email: efarella@deis.unibo.it
Phone: +390512093787
Fax: +390512093785
Web: http://www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/~farella
Elisabetta Farella is a post-doc researcher at DEIS (Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems) in University of Bologna. She is also a research consultant at CINECA Supercomputing Center (www.cineca.it). She is part of the Ami group at Micrel lab (www-micrel.deis.unibo.it), where she is involved in research about wireless sensor networks as enabling technology for Ambient Intelligence applications. Her research interests include VR systems, Cultural Heritage, Wireless Sensor Networks, Pervasive Computing and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). She has a B.S. degree in electrical engineering at University of Bologna. Prize for Laurea thesis given by C.N.A. (National Confederation for arts and crafts and little and medium enterprises). She was P.h.D. student at University of Ferrara. Her doctoral thesis is about “Natural User Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence Applications”. She is winner of the first prize for the Design-In Award 2005 organized by ASSIPE (Italian Association for Electronics Design) with the project: “Bio-feedback Wireless Weareable System”.

In the AmI group, we are working on WSN at different levels: from hardware/software design to communication protocols implementation. We are working with many different sensors (inertial sensors, PIR, cameras, etc.). My particular interest is in application of WSN to ambient intelligence scenarios. I’m actually working on implementation of Body Area Network for different purposes, for example human body tracking, biofeedback, gesture interfaces, biometrics.
A publication list and other information about me and my research interests can be recovered at http://www-micrel.deis.unibo.it/~farella/

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Elena Fasolo

Elena Fasolo Elena Fasolo

University of Padova
Via Gradenigo 6/B
Padova, PD 35131
Italy

Email: fasoloel@dei.unipd.it
Phone: +39 049 8277753
I'm a PhD student since January 2005 at DEI (Department of Information Engineering) of University of Padova. My research project concerns routing and MAC protocol for ad hoc and wireless sensor networks. In particular, I focus my attention on the use of standard IEEE 802.11 in Wireless Sensor Networks to design energy efficient algorithms. In this context I'm also studying some issues concerning broadcasting in inter-vehicular networks. The main aim is to develop a distribuited position-aware broadcast algorithms which performs rather closely to an MCDS-based algorithms.
Moreover I'm working within a project to design, develop and evaluate an hybrid system (WiFi-UMTS).
In general my interests are in wireless networks and in MAC and network layers.

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Szymon Fedor

Szymon Fedor

RINCE, Dublin City University
Collins avenue
Dublin 9
Ireland

Email: szymon.fedor2@mail.dcu.ie
Phone: 00353857243803
Web: http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~bssl/
Currently I am a PhD student in the Switching and Systems Laboratory (SSL) at Dublin City University. I graduated from the French engineering school, INSA Lyon (Telecommunications school) in 2004. As a result of my exchange, I received Masters in Telecommunciations with 1st Class Honours from Dublin City University in 2004. In November 2004 I joined the SSL and in cooperation with the RF Modelling and Simulation Group we are working on a Wireless Sensor Network project. The aim of the project is to provide a long lifetime, scalable WSN system with self-organizing nodes.
The main concern of my research are the medium access and routing protocols. I work on the protocols which would improve the performance of the WSN in terms of the energy efficiency, latency, self-configuration and scalability. My recent paper submitted to the IEEE SoftCOM conference describes the routing protocol, called SCALE, which improves the LEACH protocol in terms of network lifetime over 60%.

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Christian Frank

Christian Frank Christian Frank

ETH Zurich
Clausiusstr. 59
Zürich 8092
Switzerland

Email: chfrank@inf.ethz.ch
Phone: +41446324426
Web: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~chfrank
In my PhD work, I am concerned with high-level programming abstractions for wireless sensor networks. I am currently working on configuration support, where certain functions are assigned to sensor nodes, based on sensor node properties (such as hardware configuration or network neighborhood). Using a configuration language the network programmer may specify sensor node functions (roles) and the conditions for the assignment of each role. We call the developed abstraction generic role assignment.

Recently, we have developed distributed algorithms for generic role assignment, including a probabilistic scheme that is able to estimate role probabilities from given programmer-specified conditions for assuming each role. These probabilities can be used for initialization preceding a later deterministic role-assignment phase.

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Gerhard Fuchs

Gerhard Fuchs Gerhard Fuchs

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Informatik 7
Martensstr. 3
Erlangen 91058
Germany

Email: gerhard.fuchs@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Phone: +49 (91 31) 8 52 74 14
Fax: +49 (91 31) 8 52 74 09
Web: http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~fuchs/
Born in November 1977 in Fürth/Bay., Germany, I finished my M.Sc. studies in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inf.) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany in June 2004. My major subjects were "Distributed Systems and Operating Systems", "Computer Architecture", and "Computer Graphics", my minor subject "Sensor Systems and Process Measurement Technique". The title of my mater theses was "Mobile autonomous services and their profiling".
In July 2004, I started my PhD studies of Computer Science as a member of the Autonomic Networking Group at the Chair of Computer Networks and Communication Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Using a combination of stationary sensor networks and mobile robot teams (we call it "mobile sensor network") the group has the following research issues:

* monitoring and simulation of the system
* task allocation, localization and navigation
* energy-efficient operation, QoS, and security
* bio-inspired methodologies for communication and self-organization


My field of interest is:

* autonomous deployment / reconfiguration of sensor notes with mobile robots
* middleware for the mobile sensor networks
* energy-aware task allocation in mobile sensor networks with real-time constraints

In addition to engineering methods I want to investigate in bio-inspired methodologies to address these issues. Currently, I’m primarily concerned with mobile robots.

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Matthias Gauger

Matthias Gauger Matthias Gauger

University of Stuttgart
Universitätsstraße 38
Stuttgart 70569
Germany

Email: Matthias.Gauger@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
Phone: +49 711 7816 295
Fax: +49 711 7816 424
Web: http://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/?id=matthias.gauger
I am a new PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. I am working in the Distributed Systems department with Prof. Dr. Kurt Rothermel. In the Distributed Systems department I am a member of the Sensor Networks Group led by Dr. Pedro José Marrón.

Before starting as a PhD student, I finished my Computer Science Diploma (Diplominformatiker) at the University of Stuttgart this spring. I also have a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia which I received in summer 2003.

I first got involved with the wireless sensor networks domain last fall when I started working on my diploma thesis in the Sensor Networks Group of the Distributed Systems department. In my thesis I developed a mechanism for code updates on Mica2 sensor nodes equipped with TinyOS. The new concept of this mechanism is to segment a TinyOS application into several components before installing the software and deploying the sensor nodes. In the case of code updates only the changed components need to be distributed to the sensor nodes where they are dynamically integrated and linked to the installed code base.

My current interest in sensor networks is focused on the integration of actuators in sensor networks and on the different challenges associated with code updates and code distribution.

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Pablo Guerrero

Pablo Guerrero Pablo Guerrero

Databases and Distributed Systems Group
Hochschulstr. 10
Darmstadt, Hessen 64289
Germany

Email: pablo.guerrero@gmail.com
Phone: +49 6151 166237
Fax: +49 6151 166229
Web: http://www.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
I'm a PhD candidate at the Databases and Distributed Systems Group @ TU Darmstadt (Germany). I've started a couple of weeks ago and I'm focusing my work on the area of WSN, specifically on privacy and security aspects. I've aready spent 6 months at SAP Labs in Palo Alto working on
the Auto-ID and Smarts Item Research Program.

A first goal is to immerse myself to the WSN field, inspect the current perspectives for the area. I already have a first impression on what can be done with TinyOS, TinyDB and the motes since I’ve assisted to a couple of talks and demos regarding WSN from Intel @ Berkeley.

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Cyrus Hall

Cyrus Hall Cyrus Hall

University of Lugano
Via Motta 28
Lugano, Ticino 6900
Switzerland

Email: hallc@lu.unisi.ch
In general, my background has been in networking. This interest stems from an interest in enabling human communication, both with other humans and the physical world around us. It is the second of these two goals that lead me toward sensor networks during my Masters degree at the University of Colorado.

My M.S. thesis focused on content-based routing and forwarding in sensor networks, and presents a process called Distance-Vector/Dynamic Receiver Partitioning, or DV/DRP (see [1]). While distance-vector by itself is a well known technique, DRP offers an innovative way to optimally forward content in sensor networks. While working on DV/DRP, I also contributed to a new, multithreaded operating system for sensor networks, the MultimodAl Networks of In-situ Sensors OS, or, for short, MANTIS OS [2].

I am currently a first year Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.

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[1] C.P. Hall, A. Carzaniga, J. Rose, and A.L. Wolf "A Content-Based Networking Protocol For Sensor Networks". Technical Report CU-CS-979-04, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado, August, 2004. http://www.inf.unisi.ch/carzaniga/papers/cucs-980-04.pdf

[2] http://mantis.cs.colorado.edu/

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Kasper Hallenborg

Kasper Hallenborg

Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55
Odense M 5230
Denmark

Email: hallenborg@mip.sdu.dk
Phone: +45 65503585
Fax: +45 66157697
Web: http://www.mip.sdu.dk
I have a very strong interest in Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing, and have recently finished my PhD thesis concerning various components to support perceptional aspects of pervasive computing, from low-level control of sensor nodes to cognitive modules for adjusting services and behaviors of the systems.
I am very interested in stuff related to context interpretation and wireless sensor networks, thus I assume the Summer School would give me a strong basis for exploring these topics.

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Ezra Hoch

Ezra Hoch Ezra Hoch


Rachel Hameshoreret, 19/9, Beit Hacerem
Jerusalem 96348
Israel

Email: hre199@zahav.net.il
I'm interested in distributed algorithms and have done research in two subfields. One is in the area of anonymity and the other in mobile ad-hoc routing.

Email: ezraho@cs.huji.ac.il

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Clemens Holzmann

Clemens Holzmann

Department of Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Altenberger Straße 69
Linz 4040
Austria

Email: clemens.holzmann@jku.at
Phone: +43 732 2468 1226
Fax: +43 732 2468 8426
Web: http://www.soft.uni-linz.ac.at/About_Us/Staff/Holzmann/
I am a PhD student at the University of Linz/Austria and I received a Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2004 in computer science. My master thesis was about location-sensing for context-aware applications. Since 2003, I have been working as a researcher at the Department of Pervasive Computing (Prof. Alois Ferscha); additionally, I am studying business informatics, also at the University of Linz.

I am currently working on a project with Siemens Munich in the field of context computing and human computer interaction. My research interests include pervasive and ubiquitous computing in general, context-awareness, sensor technologies and human computer interaction. I am particularly interested in location- and orientation- awareness, which will be the research areas for my PhD thesis I started in spring 2005. My current work focuses on orientation sensing in general as well as the relation between orientation, location and time. As there is much to say about it and there are many open issues which are to be addressed, I would also like to contribute to the participants workshop with an overview of my current work.

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Marcin Karpinski

Marcin Karpinski

Distributed Systems Group at CS Department, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
DSG, Computer Science Department, Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland

Email: karpinsm@cs.tcd.ie
As a part of the Aithne (http://aithne.dsg.cs.tcd.ie) Project I'm in charge of building a sensor network for detecting and tracking vehicles along public roads. We want to investigate the applicability of sensor networks deployed along roads and streets to increasing safety of driving and also, by developing this particular prototype we want to end up with a more general middleware suitable for such applications.

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Hans-Joerg Koerber

Hans-Joerg Koerber Hans-Joerg Koerber

Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Holstenhofweg 85
Hamburg 22043
Germany

Email: hj.koerber@hsu-hh.de
Phone: +49 406541 2638
Fax: +49 406541 3786
Web: http://emt.hsu-hh.de
Hello, I am a PhD student at the chair of electrical measurement engineering of the Helmut Schmidt University, University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg.

Research Field:
My research focus is wireless sensor and sensor systems. Currently i am embedding a Microchip based platform into TinyOS. The platform (TCM 120) is already commercially available and is marketed by Enocean for a variety of applications, at the moment mainly for home and building automation purposes. My goal is to bring this platform into "real world" wireless sensor networks applications.

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Ioannis Krontiris

Ioannis Krontiris Ioannis Krontiris

Research Assistant, Athens Information Technology
Markopoulo Ave., P.O. Box 68
Peania, Attiki 190 02
Greece

Email: ikro@ait.edu.gr
Phone: +30 210 668-2734
Fax: +30 210 668 2703
Web: http://www.ait.edu.gr/research/Wireless_and_Sensors/overview.asp
Scientific interests:
I am a Ph.D student and research assistant at the Athens Information Technology institute. My research interests are focused on sensor networks, and especially routing and security issues. My theoretical work so far has been mainly on designing new secure communication protocols that provide confidentiality, integrity and freshness in routing and aggregation procedures of sensor networks. I am also interested in intrusion detection and autonomous defense against adversaries. I have also done some experimental work on real-life sensor nodes and currently working on setting up a real application.

Short CV:
I hold the following degrees:
Diploma in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece, 2001.
Master in Information Networking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, 2004.

Since March 2005 I have been working as a research assistant in Athens Information Technology.


Recent Publications:
- T. Dimitriou, I. Krontiris and F. Nikakis. "SPEED: Scalable Protocols for Efficient Event Delivery in Sensor Networks". Networking 2004, Athens, Greece.
- T. Dimitriou, I. Krontiris and F. Nikakis. "Fast and Scalable Key Establishment in Sensor Networks". IEEE Monograph on Sensor Network Operations, 2004.
- T. Dimitriou, I. Krontiris and F. Nikakis. "A Localized, Distributed Protocol for Secure Information Exchange in Sensor Networks". 5th IEEE International Workshop on. Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, WMAN 05.
- T. Dimitriou and I. Krontiris, "Autonomic Communication Security in Sensor Networks". 2nd International Workshop on Autonomic Communication, WAC 2005.
- T. Dimitriou and I. Krontiris, "Secure Aggregation", invited book chapter in "Security in Sensor Networks" (edited by Prof. Yang Xiao), to be published by CRC Press in early 2006.
- I. Krontiris and F. Nikakis. "Secure and Efficient Data Delivery in Sensor Networks". Master Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University (December 2003)

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Mickaël Le Baillif

Mickaël Le Baillif Mickaël Le Baillif

IRISA / INRIA Rennes
IRISA, campus de Beaulieu, Avenue du Général Leclerc
Rennes Cedex 35042
France

Email: mickael.lebaillif@irisa.fr
I am currently working as an intern with the ACES team leaded by Michel Banâtre, from IRISA / INRIA Rennes, as part of my last term of engineering studies. I will continue working with this team through a PhD starting in October, focusing on ubiquitous computing integrated in small-scale architectures, using the SPREAD software.

SPREAD (Spatial PRogramming Environment Ambient computing Design) is a software system enabling simple and elegant programming of ubiquitous computing applications. SPREAD is based on the concept of physical "tuples'', which are structured pieces of data associated with a shape surrounding a physical object. SPREAD allow processes to use the physical space as a simple database or associative memory, where data are represented by physical objects and data flow are implicitely related to object movements.

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Yann-Ael Le Borgne

Yann-Ael Le Borgne Yann-Ael Le Borgne

Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Boulevard du Triomphe - CP212
Bruxelles 1050
Belgium

Email: yleborgn@ulb.ac.be
Web: http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/map/yleborgn/index.html
I started my PhD in october 2004 in the Machine Learning Group (www.ulb.ac.be/di/mlg) - headed by Gianluca Bontempi - at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

I am mostly interested machine learning techniques and in wireless sensor networks. As measures collected by sensors deployed over an environment are likely to be strongly correlated in space and time, my research aims at designing predictive models and making use of compression techniques to both reduce sensor's energy consumption and network traffic.

Current work involves:
- Prediction of a sensor's measurements using lazy learning techniques. This follows work from Goel and Imielinsky on prediction-based monitoring and buddy protocols.
- Cross prediction at the sensor network level, aiming at finding minimum subsets of sensors whose measurements can predict remaining sensor's measurements within a predefined confidence interval.
- Adaptive organization of a sensor network in clusters, that aims at balancing the different tradeoff between energy consumption, bandwidth utilization, and system accuracy.

Publication:

G. Bontempi, Y. Le Borgne. An adaptive modular approach to the mining of sensor network data. Workshop on Data Mining in Sensor Networks. SIAM SDM April 2005, Newport Beach, CA, USA.

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Mihai Marin-Perianu

Mihai Marin-Perianu Mihai Marin-Perianu

University of Twente
Drienerlolaan 5
Enschede 7522 NB
Netherlands

Email: m.marinperianu@utwente.nl
Phone: 0031534893798
I have obtained my Diplomat Engineer degree at "Politehnica" University of Bucharest in 2002 and afterwards I have followed post-graduated studies (one year) at the same university. Since November 2004, I am a PhD student at University of Twente, within the Embedded System group.
The focus of my research is represented by the collaboration mechanisms that can be conceived for smart objects, with a particular interest towards wireless sensor networks. The challenges are not only to devise such collaborating objects, but also to study how they can become benefic and usable in complex real-world applications. I belive that cooperation is a fundamental process that enables objects to achieve intelligent behaviour, initiative and to respond to complex tasks required by user applications.

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Alejandro Martinez-Sala

Alejandro Martinez-Sala


Campus de la Muralla del Mar s/n
Cartagena, Murcia 30202
Spain

Email: alejandros.martinez@upct.es
Phone: +34 968326535
Fax: +34 968325973
I received the Electrical Engineering degree in 2000, from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena(UPCT) in Spain. Since 2001, I work at the Telematics Research Group at the same university. I am working on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and Wireless Sensor Networks with
Professor Joan Garcia Haro (headmaster of the research group). My research interest is in energy-efficient MAC protocols related to active RFID tags and for WSN and the cross-layer dependencies between the radio and physical layer with the MAC layer.

I am focusing my PhD on developing and analysing energy-efficient MAC protocols for RFID active tags. The goal is to identify a big number of RFID active tags ( that it is not known in advance by the master reader) in a bounded time with demanding constraints of battery-lifetime.
In addition, I am researching on power transmission control algorithms to save energy in a WSN.

I am also involved in two R&D projects related to WSN (Spanish national funded) and in an industrial cooperation program for the development of RFID active tags (hardware, protocols and middleware) for a novel logistics system (www.ecomovistand.com).

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Michael McHugh

Michael McHugh

CDVP, Dublin City University
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Ireland

Email: mmchugh@computing.dcu.ie
I graduated with a BSc in Computer Applications, and spent 5 years working for Sun Microsystems in Ireland, so my main background is in computer programming, rather than engineering. I have recently started a PhD with a focus on event detection in wireless audio sensor networks, working in the Centre for Digital Video Processing, at Dublin City University. This is one of three laboratories that together make up the Adaptive Information Cluster. The AIC is a cross-disciplinary research cluster that has been awarded €5.6 million by the Science Foundation of Ireland. The mission of the AIC is to integrate research on adaptive sensor networks, content extraction and adaptive utilization and to collaborate with industry partners and state bodies to develop applications in areas such as health management, traffic management, environmental monitoring and personalized retailing.

The aim of my research is to find out if we can determine an expected audio profile for a given location, and recognise deviations from that profile as events. As the expected profile would vary over time, the definition of an event would also depend on the time the deviation is detected.

We intend to use a network of wireless audio sensors to both generate the expected profile, and monitor the location thereafter. The network should be self-organising, and nodes should be able to learn - once the profile for a node in a given location has been established, moving that node to a new location should reduce its effectiveness, until it re-learns the profile for the new location. Operating in a network should make it easier to discard random data noise, and to confirm significant events as multiple sensors are triggered.

My activities so far have focused on the audio part of the field, both in terms of gathering data and investigating various forms of analysis. As the project proceeds, we'll need to bring in more aspects of wireless sensors, and this workshop appeals to me as it provides the opportunity to get a broad overview of all of the issues that are involved. At the moment, we're aware that there are issues around power consumption, time synchronisation, security/identity and handshaking, but there are bound to be others that we haven't identified yet.

As the focus of the AIC is on the development of adaptive sensor networks - of which audio sensor networks is one example - we feel that participation in the summer school would be very helpful for our overall organisation. Elsewhere in the AIC we are developing sensor networks for environmental monitoring, sensor networks for pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow, and personal sensor networks which gather biometric information from people and use that information in a variety of adaptive and personalised applications, and the broad range of topics that are scheduled to be covered at the school would be very beneficial.

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Steffen Mecke

Steffen Mecke

University of Karlsruhe
Am Fasanengarten 5
Karlsruhe 76128
Germany

Email: mecke@ira.uka.de
Phone: +49 721 608-4245
I'm a doctoral student and research assistant at Prof. D. Wagner's chair of Algorithmics in Karlsruhe, Germany. I've studied mathematics and computer science and graduated with a german "Diplom" (master) in Mathematics. For my PhD thesis I work on topics in wireless sensor networks. My focus is going to be on algorithmic aspects, especially of covering problems. In our research group we try to combine theoretical and practical methods of algorithmics (algorithm engineering). See
http://i11www.ira.uka.de/members/index.php?algouser=mecke for further details.

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Thomas Menzel

Thomas Menzel Thomas Menzel

TU Berlin
Sekr FT5, Einsteinufer 25
Berlin 10587
Germany

Email: menzel@tkn.tu-berlin.de
Background: Diploma Candidate at Telecommunication Networks Group, TU Berlin

Focus of research: Energy efficient medium access for sensor networks

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David Merrill

David Merrill David Merrill

MIT Media Lab
20 Ames St., E15-320R
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Email: dmerrill@media.mit.edu
Phone: 617 253 5027
Web: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/
Hello, my name is David Merrill. I am a first-year Ph.D. student working with Pattie Maes in the Ambient Intelligence group at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, MA USA.

I have a background in cognitive science and computer science (undergraduate and masters degree) from Stanford University, and I have been a graduate student (first masters, now PhD) at the Media Lab since 2002 working on interactive systems in the areas of electronic music controllers, attention-sensitive interfaces and augmented objects. At the lab I worked for a year with Joe Paradiso building a smart music controller that learns the custom physical gestures that a user desires to associate with different musical outputs. The device has many different types of sensors (accelerometers, gyros, force, bend, electric field), and our objective was to develop a natural way for users to easily map input degrees of freedom to control parameters and triggered sounds [1].

Lately I have been working on “Invisible Media”, a platform to augment physical objects with media and informational content in a way that can both direct, and respond to, the focus of a user’s visual attention and task context in a personalized, multimodal manner [2]. We have created a training scenario with the platform, with the goal to create an interaction that feels like having a domain expert standing next to the user telling them about what they are looking at, and pointing out items of interest – but without a lot of cumbersome gear. The system can monitor which augmented objects are in the user’s visual field, and can cause any of them to signal visually in order to draw the user’s attention. Coupled with speech input and output, it has become a flexible and interesting platform.

At the summer school I am looking forward to meeting and sharing ideas with the lecturers and other participants. At the stage in my PhD that I am at now (1 year completed, 2 or 3 yet to come), I have a lot of ideas for potential projects and research directions but have not made up my mind about where to focus my research for a dissertation. A week of discussion and learning about tools and new ideas in the field will be extremely valuable to my future work. I am also particularly interested in learning more about the current tools (TinyOS, etc) and what ways people are using them. Spending a year working with Joe Paradiso has made me a competent electronics hacker (both analog and digital), and his group is currently focusing on fundamental issues in sensor networks. Now that I am working with Pattie Maes I have been thinking about smart objects from a human-computer-interaction point of view.

David Merrill
dmerrill@media.mit.edu

[1] FlexiGesture: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/adaptive_controller.html
[2] Invisible Media: http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/invisible_media.html

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Christian Metzger

Christian Metzger Christian Metzger

Information Management, ETH Zürich
Kreuzplatz 5
Zürich 8032
Switzerland

Email: cmetzger@ethz.ch
I graduated with a MSc in information technology and electrical engineering from ETH Zurich in 2004. During my studies, I worked with Prof. Gerhard Tröster (ETH) and Prof. Thad Starner (Georgia Tech) in the area of wearable and ubiquitous computing.

As a PhD student in the Moblie and Ubiquitous Computing Lab (ETH Zurich), which has a strong focus on Ubiquitous Computing for Business Applications, I do research in the areas of sensor-equipped RFID tags, localization, and smart products.

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Antonio Miraglia

Antonio Miraglia Antonio Miraglia

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Università del Sannio in Benevento Italy
Piazza Roma 18-24
Benevento, Italy 82100
Italy

Email: antonio.miraglia@unisannio.it
Phone: 0039 0824 305560
Fax: 0039 0284 325246
Web: http://www.grace.ing.unisannio.it/home/amiraglia
I took my laurea degree (5 years) at the Università degli Studi del Sannio (Benevento - Italy) in May, 2004 .
My thesis work was about the analysis of real time multithreaded control algorithms for automotive applications developed through the Giotto methodology.
The work has been carried on collaboration with Elasis,
an automotive research center.
Currently, I’m working at the G.R.A.C.E. (Group for Research on Automatic Control Engineering, http://www.grace.ing.unisannio.it) at the same University .
My work at G.R.A.C.E. concerns about:

-- sensors networks architectures and their
applications to real time control systems for
environmental monitoring;

-- constrained optimization algorithms and object
oriented simulation for complex manufacturing
systems.

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Selene Mota

Selene Mota Selene Mota

Technical University of Eindhoven (Tu/e) in the Netherlands
Den Dolech 2, HG. 2.44
Eindhoven 5612 AZ
Netherlands

Email: s.a.mota-toledo@tue.nl
Phone: +31-40-247-4019
I am a first year Ph.D. at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Tu/e) in the Netherlands. I am interested on Multimodal Pattern Recognition of Signals coming among different sensor sources, Awareness Systems, Human behaviour Understanding and Affective Computing.

Currently, I am working in a project with TU/e and Philips Research called “Ambient Awareness”. This project explores how to combine Ambient Intelligence with an Awareness System in order to connect households with mobile individuals. Also, it aims to build a social intelligent component that works in real time and tells the system how to behave based on the automated capture of social context.

I hold a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from the Monterrey Institute of Technology(ITESM)in Mexico, and a Master in Media Arts and Sciences from the Institute of Technology (MIT) in USA. During My masters I worked at the MIT Media Lab Affective Computing Group and, there, I developed a “Smart Sensor Chair”. This is a device that tracks and interprets postural behavior while a student is sitting on a chair. Further, it gives a prediction of the student’s interest level, while he is working on a math related task in front of a computer.

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Kavitha Muthukrishnan

Kavitha Muthukrishnan

University of Twente
Hallenweg
Enschede 7522 NB
Netherlands

Email: k.muthukrishnan@ewi.utwente.nl
Phone: 0031 53 489 3798
I obtained my MSc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Twente ,The Netherlands in January 2004. Since August 2004, I am working towards my PhD in the Embedded Systems Group, University of Twente. The overall objective of my research is to work towards developing general architectural framework for localization mechanism within smart surroundings project. Currently I am working on WLAN based localization. In future, I would focus on sensor node localization and sensor fusion.

Selected Publications:

Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Maria Lijding, Paul Havinga, "Towards Smart Surroundings: Enabling Techniques and Technologies for Localization", Proceedings of First International Workshop on Location and Context awareness(LOCA 2005), May 2005, Munich, Germany.

Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Nirvana Meratnia, Georgi Koprinkov, Maria Lijding and Paul Havinga, " SVGOpen Conference Guide: An overview" , SVG Open 2005 Conference Proceedings, August 2005,(to be published) Enschede, The Netherlands

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Michele Nati

Michele Nati Michele Nati

Computer Science Department at Rome University
Strada di Santa Lucia, 4
Narni, Terni/Umbria/Italia 05035
Italy

Email: nati@di.uniroma1.it
Fax: 068541842
Web: http://reti.dsi.uniroma1.it/eng/nati/
Laurea degree in Computer Engineering from Rome University "La Sapienza", with the evaluation of 110/110.
I'm Ph.D. Student in Computer Science (first year).

My interest is on Wireless Sensor Networks, mainly the design of Latency-Aware Medium Access Control (MAC) and Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Protocols for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks. I'm interesting also to designed of integrated MAC/Routing protocol in sensor network with channel attenuation phenomena.

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Luca Negri

Luca Negri Luca Negri

Politecnico di Milano
Via Ponzio, 34/5
Milano, MI 20133
Italy

Email: lnegri@elet.polimi.it
Web: http://www.elet.polimi.it/upload/lnegri
Here is a summary of my past/present research:

Undergraduate
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Final Master Thesis: “A New Cache Coherence Protocol for Multiprocessors”, within the area of shared-memory multiprocessors, with particular focus on cache-coherence protocols.

Major PhD research
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Currently working in the field of pervasive computing systems, especially focusing on low power consumption issues in wireless networks. This research is supervised by prof. Mariagiovanna Sami, Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Marco Bianchessi, STMicroelectronics. A general methodology and tool chain has been developed to model and optimize the power consumption of a wireless protocol. This has been applied to Bluetooth, for which some point-to-point and network-level optimization policies (topology, link policy etc.) have been proposed. Ongoing work includes power analysis of 802.11 and other protocols.
I am currently a research guest at the TIK institute, ETH Zurich, working in the group of prof. Lothar Thiele on the BTNode project (http://btnode.ethz.ch).

Minor PhD research
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As part of an E-Learning project with focus on remote tutoring, I designed and developed the ALaRI Intranet (www.alari.ch/intranet) platform, which serves now as the main community portal for the ALaRI (Advanced Learning and Research Institute) institute (www.alari.ch).

My publications list is available at www.elet.polimi.it/upload/lnegri

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Thomas Nicolai

Thomas Nicolai Thomas Nicolai

University of St.Gallen - Institute for Media and Communications Management
Blumenbergplatz 9
St.Gallen 9000
Switzerland

Email: thomas.nicolai@unisg.ch
Phone: +41 (71) 224 27 74
Web: http://www.mcm.unisg.ch
The kind of how we use computers and interfaces will be rapidly changing in the next years. Out of my background I'm writting my PhD thesis in the area of ubiquitous computing with a special focus on the as we call it "Web of Augmented Physical Objects" or even known as "smart objects" connected to their digital counterparts.

In the last year I've been developing the new digital research platform Alexandria [http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch] for the University of St.Gallen. The next step will be a prototyp which will try to realize the concept of the "Web of Augmented Physical Objects" to cross the border between the digital library and the physical library and additionally explore new ways of interaction e.g. can we use a book as an interface?!?!

I've been studying computer science (informatics) in my undergraduated studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After this I finished my postgraduated studies at the University of the Arts Berlin with the Diplom Designer Electronic Business Degree. Since 2004 I'm a doctoral student at the Institute for Media and Communications Management St.Gallen.

You can see my whole scientific way at the Alexandria Research Platform of the University of St.Gallen:
http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/index.php?NAV[context_pid]=iss3-src0&NAV[pid]=iss3&NAV[permid]=1

I'd like to present the idea of a physical library which is connected to his digital "twin" in this way that we could build up as a first step a system where you can see how many people clicked on your digital publication and how many people got it from the physical library. Furthermore we are thinking about to bring collaborative filters to the real world like "the people how got this book from the physical libary have been also taking this one". Therefor we do need to install any kinds of displays into the libary where we get into interaction with the user and can display "the digital counterpart" or even do this via new audible interfaces. This is just a beginning of the research focus to be developed.

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Dan O'Keeffe

Dan O'Keeffe Dan O'Keeffe

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thompson Avenue
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

Email: do244@cam.ac.uk
Web: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~do244
I am a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where I am a member of the Opera (Distributed Systems) group.

I am interested in context modeling and data processing in large scale pervasive environments. In particular, how can we extend existing context-aware architectures to provide programming support for energy constrained sensor systems such
as wireless sensor networks.

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Dikaios Papadogkonas

Dikaios Papadogkonas Dikaios Papadogkonas


9 Heath Road
Harrow HA1 4DA
United Kingdom

Email: dikaios@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Phone: +447855978016
Web: http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~dikaios
I started my PhD in January 2005 at Birkbeck College, University of London under the supervision of Dr. George Roussos and Prof. Mark Levene. I have a BSc in computer Science from the University of Liverpool and an MSc in Distributed Systems engineering from Computing department Lancaster University.

During my MSc project I first got involved in the sensors network research area by contributing to the development of the CommonSence toolkit (http://cstk.sourceforge.net/) and investigating different classification algorithms for activity recognition with the use of different accelerometer sensors.

My research is focused on navigation in ambient intelligence landscapes. This involves recording user trails in monitored areas by using different smart objects and analyzing those by using different statistics in order to be able to identify navigation flaws and predict user behaviour in similar environments.

Furthermore, I am working as a software engineer, developing a mobile application for the Urban Tapestries project (http://urbantapestries.net/). A research framework and experimental location-based wireless application for public authoring in partnership with the London School of Economics, Hewlett Packard Research Labs and Orange with Ordnance Survey and France Telecom R&D.

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Stefan Resmerita

Stefan Resmerita Stefan Resmerita

Institute for Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University
Altenberger Strasse 69
Linz 4040
Austria

Email: resmerita@soft.uni-linz.ac.at
Phone: +43-732-2468-1341
Fax: +43-732-2468-8426
Web: http://www.soft.uni-linz.ac.at/About_Us/Staff/Resmerita/index.php
I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. My Ph.D. research foused mainly on the problem of resource sharing in multi-agent systems. Since 2004, I have done research on topics related to mainstream Pervasive Computing: Embedded Systems, Software architectures for context computing, and Human-Computer Interaction.

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Silvia Santini

Silvia Santini Silvia Santini

ETH Zurich
Clausiusstrasse 59
Zurich CH-8092
Switzerland

Email: santinis@inf.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 44 632 4142
Fax: +41 44 632 1659
Web: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/santinis/
Background:
M.Sc. in Electrical and Telecommunication engineering from University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy); Master Thesis: “GLRT detection techniques for subsurface radar sounders”; Internship at Philips Research Laboratories in Aachen (Germany), Medical Imaging Group; strong background in radar detection/estimation systems; since September 2004 teaching assistant and PhD student at the Distributed System Group, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

Research interests:
My research interest is nowadays focused on wireless sensor networks. I’m particularly interested in topics related to the accuracy with which a sensor network is able to supply the user(s) with measuring data. In order to provide a sufficient (may be user-specified) accuracy and at the same time preserve network resources from excessive exploitation, coordination among sensor nodes is required. Realizing this coordination while reducing as much as possible the related communication overhead and preserving scalability is the focus of my current research.
By the mean of student projects, I’m also testing the performance of (typical) adaptive sampling algorithms on real sensor nodes.

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Ingo Simonis

Ingo Simonis Ingo Simonis

University of Muenster, Institute for Geoinformatics
Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28
Muenster 48149
Germany

Email: simonis@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +492518330057
Fax: +492518339763
Web: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~simonis
I am a research associate at the Institute for Geoinformatics and just finishing my dissertation. I am deeply involved in the Sensor Web Enablement Initiative of the Open Geospatial Consortium (see http://www.opengeospatial.org/functional/?page=swe) and mainly interested in interoperability issues of sensor networks (see http://www.52north.org/index.php?swe).

I am currently working on a sensor simulation framework that shall help to investigate sensor movement strategies to optimize detection rates of arbitrary phenomenon. and would like to present this work during the participant’s workshop.

As I will focus on geosensor networks in my future research, I would like to use the opportunity of this meeting to make contacts with other researchers in this field and exchange opinions about general sensor related issues.

Additionally, I am currently planning to set up a sensor hard- and software interest group at the institute. Playing around with Lego mindstorms, I hope to provide a plattform to investigate real sensor related issues.

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Patrik Spieß

Patrik Spieß Patrik Spieß

Doctoral Student at SAP Research / University of Karlsruhe
Vincenz-Prießnitz-Str. 1
Karlsruhe 76131
Germany

Email: patrik.spiess@sap.com
Phone: +49721690267
Fax: +4962277844398
Web: http://www.sap.com/
I studied at the University of Karlsruhe and obtained a University Diploma (master-equivalent) in computer science. My focuses during my studies were user interfaces and ergonomics and especially computer networks, protocols and sensor networks. In October 2004, I started working for SAP Research in Karlsruhe. They have set up a 3-year doctoral program together with the University of Karlsruhe that I joined.

I am researching in the area of scalable and efficient management, configuration and reprogramming of wireless sensor networks. I am still at an early stage, doing mainly project work for SAP, trying to find a topic for my German "Doktorarbeit" (PhD equivalent).

Together with my colleagues from SAP and consortium partners, I am working on CoBIs, an EU funded project, where we try to connect sensor networks to business applications, enabling them to execute parts of business logic right on the item at the point of action rather then within the backend. This leads to business processes that have more timely and accurate information by eliminating the media breaks between the enterprise, as it exists in the real world, and its model that represents it in the IT infrastructure.

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Giovanni Vanini

Giovanni Vanini

Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Via Ponzio 34/5
Milano 20133
Italy

Email: vanini@elet.polimi.it
Phone: +390223993476
Web: http://www.elet.polimi.it
I received the Dr.Ing Degree in electronic engineering in 2002 at University of Pisa, Italy. Currently, I am Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Milano. My background is on application level methodologies for the analysis and synthesis of information-processing systems. In the last year I've focused on the application of these methodologies on WSN, in particular to extract feasible indexes to evaluate localization capability, power consumption or complexity of WSN application. My research group, headed by prof. Alippi, has grown around the MICA2 platform and TinyOS, of which I have a very good knowledge.

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Andrea Vitaletti

Andrea Vitaletti

DIS - University of Rome
via Salaria 113
Rome 00198
Italy

Email: vitale@dis.uniroma1.it
Research area:

We are working on designing simple, localized, low energy consuming, reliable protocols for oneto-all communication in large scale wireless sensor networks.

Our first proposed technique, called the Irrigator protocol,
relies on the idea to first build a sparse overlay network,
and then flood over it. The overlay network is set up by
means of a simple, distributed, localized probabilistic protocol and spans all the sensor nodes with high probability.

Based on the algorithmic ideas of the Irrigator protocol
we then develop a second protocol, dubbed Fireworks, with
similar performance that does not require any overlay network to be set up in advance. We provided asymptotic analytical results which assess the reliability of the Irrigator and Fireworks techniques. The theoretical analysis of the proposed protocols is complemented and validated by a (simulation based) comparative performance evaluation that assesses several advantages of our new protocols with respect to gossiping and simple flooding. Differently from previous studies, we analyze and demonstrate the performance
of our protocols for two different node distributions: The
typical uniform distribution and a newly defined “hill” distribution, here introduced to capture some of the important and more realistic aspects of node deployment in heterogeneous terrain.

Simulation results show that the proposed
schemes achieve very good trade-offs between low overhead,
low energy consumption and high reliability. In particular,
the Irrigator and Fireworks protocols are more reliable than
gossiping, and significantly reduce the number of links along which a message is sent over both flooding and gossiping.

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Timo Vuorela

Timo Vuorela Timo Vuorela

Tampere University of Technology / Institute of Electronics
Korkeakoulukatu 3
Tampere 33720
Finland

Email: timo.vuorela@tut.fi
I am a post graduate student at the Tampere University of Technology Institute of Electronics. I have complited my M.Sc degree in December 2002. Since summer 2000 I have been working at Institute of Electronics, first as a research assistant and after graduation as a research scientist. My research topics at the moment are smart clothing and power consumption optimization in embedded systems. I am affiliated with finnish graduate school GETA (Graduate School on Electronics Telecommunication and Automation). Planned time to finish my P.hD thesis is in year 2007 or 2008.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
M.Sc degree from Tampere University of Technology in December 2002
Thesis Work: Wireless Data Transfer in Smart Clothing

Working experience
Different summer jobs 1995 - 1999
Research Assistant 2000-2002 Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics
Research scientist 2003- Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics

Resent publications
Timo Vuorela, Jaana Hännikäinen, Katja Vähäkuopus, and Jukka Vanhala. Textile Electrode Usage in A Bioimpedance Measurement. Accepted for publication in Ambience05. 19-20 september 2005. Tampere. Finland.

Jaana Hännikäinen, Tiina Järvinen, Timo Vuorela, Katja Vähäkuopus, and Jukka Vanhala. Conductive fibres in smart clothing applications. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Automation ICMA2004, Osaka, Japan, November 24 (Wed) - 26 (Fri), 2004, pp. 227 – 232.

Vuorela, T., Kukkonen, K., Rantanen, J., Järvinen, T., & Vanhala, J. Bioimpedance Measurement System for Smart Clothing. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Wearable Computers ISWC 2003, 21-23 October, White Plains, New York, USA. pp. 98 – 107.

Vuorela, T., Kukkonen, K., Rantanen, J., Alho, T., Järvinen, T., Vanhala, J. 2003. RF Data Link for a Smart Clothing Application. Adjunct Workshop Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. Held at IEEE 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Providence Rhode Island, USA, May 19 – 22, pp. 7 – 12.

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Pasi Välkkynen

Pasi Välkkynen Pasi Välkkynen

VTT Information Technology
P.O.Box 1206
Tampere 33101
Finland

Email: pasi.valkkynen@vtt.fi
Phone: +358 20 722 3353
I got my MSc in 2001. My background is in software engineering, and more specifically usability and user interface design. I work at VTT, the technical research centre of Finland, in the Ambient Intelligence User Interfaces team.

Two years ago I started my PhD studies. The topic of my thesis is user interaction in pervasive computing, especially physical browsing. Physical browsing is a tag and mobile terminal based user interaction paradigm for associating physical objects with digital information about them.

Currently I am also working on EU FP6 integrated project Mimosa. In Mimosa we are building an architecture for interfacing RFID tags and other nodes with sensors and interacting with all of them by using a mobile phone.

My recent publications about user interaction in ambient intelligence include:

1. Välkkynen, Pasi; Korhonen, Ilkka; Plomp, Johan; Tuomisto, Timo; Cluimans, Luc; Ailisto, Heikki; Seppä, Heikki. 2003. A user interaction paradigm for physical browsing and near-object control based on tags. Proceedings of Physical Interaction Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, Udine,IT, 8-11 Sept., 2003. University of Udine, HCI Lab., Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, ss. 31 - 34
http://www.vtt.fi/inf/julkaisut/muut/2003/paradigm_browsing.pdf

2. Välkkynen, Pasi; Tuomisto, Timo. 2005. Physical browsing research. Proceedings of the Workshop Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices. München, May 2005. Enrico Rukzio, Media Informatics Group, University of Munich, ss. 35 - 38. Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2005). München, May 2005
http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/permid2005/pdf/PasiVaelkkynen_Permid2005.pdf

3. Tuomisto, Timo; Välkkynen, Pasi; Ylisaukko-oja, Arto. 2005. RFID Tag reader system emulator to support touching, pointing and scanning. Pervasive Computing. München,May 2005. IN: Advances in Pervasive Computing. Austrian Computer Society, ss. 85 - 88
http://www.vtt.fi/inf/julkaisut/muut/2005/tuomisto2005.pdf

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Lucas Wanner

Lucas Wanner Lucas Wanner

Federal University of Santa Catarina
Douglas Seabra Levier, 140/107A
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina 88040410
Brazil

Email: lucas@lisha.ufsc.br
Phone: +55 48 331-7552
Fax: +55 48 331-9770
Web: http://www.lisha.ufsc.br/~lucas
I am a graduate student of Computer Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Antonio Augusto Fröhlich (http://www.lisha.ufsc.br/~guto). I obtained by B.Sc in 2004 also at UFSC, and thesis title was "The EPOS System Supporting Wireless Sensor Networks".

My current research focuses on run time support systems for embedded networked sensing devices. Our research group at the Laboratory for Software and Hardware Integration (http://www.lisha.ufsc.br) works primarily on software engineering and operating systems development.

For further info and publications please refer to my homepage: http://www.lisha.ufsc.br/~lucas

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William Wong

William Wong William Wong

Cambridge University
Institute for Manufacturing, Mill Lane
Cambridge CB2 1RX
United Kingdom

Email: ww250@eng.cam.ac.uk
Phone: 0044(1223)765607
Fax: 0044(1223)766142
Web: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ww250
Research Interests:
Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Networked Radio Frequency Identification (N-RFID) Systems

Background:
I am a first year PhD student in Cambridge Auto-ID Lab under the supervision of Dr.Duncan McFarlane. I am interested in real-time systems, networked RFID, wireless sensor/actuator networks and embedded control systems.

Publications:
W. Wang, D.C. McFarlane and J. P. Brusey, Timing Analysis of Real-Time Networked RFID Systems, 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS05) 4th Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN05), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July, 2005.

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Eiko Yoneki

Eiko Yoneki Eiko Yoneki

University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory
J J Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

Email: ey204@cl.cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44 1223-764-743
Fax: +44 870-056-1103
Eiko Yoneki

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

Email: ey204@cl.cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1223 763743
Web: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ey204

I am a PhD student in the Distributed Systems Group of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Previously, I have spent several years with IBM (US, Japan, Italy and UK) working on various networking protocol implementations.

My general research interests include event-based middleware, asynchronous group communication, mobile ad hoc networking, and event correlation.

My current research focus is on event-based middleware bridging wireless sensor networks to Internet. We need to develop a new type of open platform, where sensed data can be shared among different applications in global computing. Our current approach is towards an integration of service grids and event broker grids over heterogeneous network environments. Adding event correlation will bring the system onto the next level, performing data aggregation and distributing filtered data based on contents. Event management will be a multi-step operation from event sources to final subscribers, combining information collected by wireless devices into higher-level information or knowledge. Recent specific topics I am working on are:

(1) Integrate data semantics to a delay/connection tolerant mobile ad hoc networking for efficient and accurate data dissemination

(2) Unified semantics for events aggregation, filtering and correlation over time and space to manage high volume and faulty sensor data and complex temporal and spatial relationships among correlated events from heterogeneous network environments.
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