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Summer School on Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Objects

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

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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/

********************** BIOGRAPHY: ********************** 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/ ********************** RESEARCH INTERESTS: ********************** 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. ********************** RECENT PUBLICATIONS: ********************** [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 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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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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 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 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 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. -- [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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	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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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 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 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 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 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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	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 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 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 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 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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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 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 ------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ------------------ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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.