System Support for Pervasive Computing
Speaker: Prof. Christian Becker,, University of Mannheim, Germany
When: 2008-01-30 10:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Prof Jadwiga Indulska
Abstract:In the vision of Pervasive Computing computers pervade
our daily environment - mostly as embedded systems that
augment our surrounding. Applications can utilize a
number of services that are available in the physical
proximity in order to offer their users services tailored
to their current context. Due to mobility and effects, such
as power saving, services will fluctuate. Applications have
to adapt to compensate fluctuations as well as make use
of "better" services that become available.
In the Peer to Peer Pervasive Computing project 3PC we have
investigated middleware concepts that allow to establish
a so called smart peer group that is formed from devices
with a common mobility pattern. Within this smart peer
group, resources are shared. We named this middleware
BASE and used it as a technical foundation to investigate
concepts and mechanism for automated application adaptation.
In our component system PCOM contracts between components
are enriched in their semantics and thus allow the system
to automatically substitute a component in case of fluctuations
or availability of a better candidate.
The talk closes with an outlook to current research that
builds on the concepts developed in 3PC.
Biography:Christian Becker is a full professor for Information Systems at the
University of Mannheim since 2006. Prior to this he was a visiting
professor for distributed systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen
in Spring Term 2006. He studied Computer Science at the Universities
of Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern where he received the Diploma in
1996. From 1997 till 2001 he was a researcher at the distributed
systems and operating systems group at the University of Frankfurt
where he received his PhD in 2001 with a thesis about Quality of
Service Management in Distributed Object Systems. In 2001 he
joined the distributed systems group at the University of Stuttgart as
Post Doc. His research focussed on system support for Pervasive
Computing and Context-Aware Computing. He was a member of the
Nexus project that investigates concepts for global scale context
management. In 2004 he received the venia legendi (Habilitation) for
Computer Science (Informatik). Christians research interests are
distributed systems and Context-Aware Computing.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Prof Jadwiga Indulska, seminar host (jaga@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)