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SAMEH
ABDEL-NABY
Department of Information
and Communication technology
- University of Trento
Sameh Abdel-Naby is PhD
Student in University of
Trento, focusing his research
topics on the area of Agent-Oriented
Architectures and Services,
worked with SESA SPA and
had a contribution in the
developing process of a
new mobile platform considering
the latest P2P Mobile Ad-hoc
networks and Agents based
structures researches and
studies, worked with SIEMENS
Mobile Communications R&D
on surveying and enhancing
the latest Mobile Multimedia
Services Applications And
Solutions, which Agents
are expected to leave a
wide impact on. Earned his
Masters Degree in Management
in the Network Economy from
Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore joint with
University of Berkeley (USA),
Worked with Orascom Telecom
Small to Medium Enterprises
division emboldening the
MENA segmentation with the
revolutionary Internet connections
and communication methods
simultaneously with his
B.Sc. educational period
of time from the Modern
Academy for Computer Science
and Management Technology
in association with University
of District of Columbia.
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Prof
Dr SAHIN ALBAYRAK
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Prof. Dr. Sahin Albayrak
holds a professorship chair
for Agent Technologies in
Business Applications and
Telecommunication (AOT)
at the Technische Universität
Berlin. He is also head
of the DAI-Labor, a distributed
artificial intelligence
laboratory, currently employing
about 100 researchers, graduate
students, postdocs and support
staff. Sahin Albayrak obtained
his Dr.-Ing. degree in 1992
and a habilitation (German
postdoctoral lecture qualification)
in 2002, both from the TU
Berlin.
Prof. Albayrak is member
of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) and the Association
for Computing Machinery
(ACM), as well as of Gesellschaft
für Informatik (German
Computer Science Society,
GI), and the American Association
for Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI). He is also member
of the steering board of
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
(T-Labs) and a member of
the research initiative
"Vernetzte Welten"
of the incentive circle
initiated by the German
Government for cooperation
between industry and academia
"Partner für Innovation".
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EVE
ATALLAH
XLIM UMR CNRS 6172 University
Of Limoges
Eve Atallah is PhD. Student
at the University of Limoges
on the “Authentication
and Secured Exchanges in Mobile
Network”. She is co-supervised
by Pierre-François
Bonnefoi and Serge Chaumette
(LaBRI, University Bordeaux
1) since September 2004.
She obtained is Master at
the University Bordeaux
1. The subject of her Master thesis
was “Graph Relabelling
System (GRS) & Mobile
ad-hoc Networks (MANETS)”.
Her favourite research interests are
Computer Science, Network
and Security.
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GILLES
BARTHE
Director of Research - INRIA
Sophia-Antipolis
Director of Research at
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis,
Head of the Everest team,
G. Barthe has been involved
in security projects within
France and Europe. In particular,
he is leading the projects
CASTLES on smartcard security
and SPOPS on operating systems
security, and is the scientific
coordinator of the IST FP6
FET IP MOBIUS project. His
research interests lie in
the areas of formal methods,
programming languages and
security.
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MARCO
BLUMENDORF
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Marco Blumendorf is a PhD
student at the DAI-Labor
of the Technical University
of Berlin. He participated
in several research projects
funded by the German government,
the Deutsche Telekom, Sun
Microsystems and others.
His research interest covers
multimodal human-computer
interaction, focussing on
model-based development
of user interfaces for smart
home environments. Currently
he is working in the Service
Centric Home (SerCHo) project
(funded by the German government)
covering the development
of services for the home
environment.
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DARIO
BONINO
Ph.D - Politecnico di Torino
Dario Bonino (Ph.D) is a
research assistant in the
e-Lite research group at
the Department of Computer
Science and Automation of
Politecnico di Torino. He
received his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Electronics and
Computer Science Engineering,
respectively, from Politecnico
di Torino in 2002 and 2006.
His current research interests
include Semantic Web technologies,
with a particular focus
on architectures for semantic
annotation, indexing and
retrieval of web resources,
domotics and semantic-aware,
home-related technologies,
distributed systems, multi-agent
systems and semantics-aware
web architectures. Currently
he is "technical manager"
of the H-DOSE open source
semantic elaboration platform
(http://dose.sourceforge.net)
and collaborates to several
other open source projects
including ontosphere3D (http://ontosphere.sourceforge.net).
He published 15 papers at
international conferences.
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PIERRE-FRANÇOIS
BONNEFOI
XLIM UMR CNRS 6172 University
Of Limoges
Pierre-François Bonnefoi
is Assistant Professor at
the XLIM Laboratory (UMR
CNRS 6172) of the University of
Limoges (France). He obtained
his Ph.D at the University
of Limoges (France) in June
1999 and since january 2004 he
is the leader of the Security
of Information team. Since
december 2005, Pierre-François
is responsible for Limoges of
the SARAH (Services distribués
Asynchrones pour Réseaux
Ad Hoc / Delay-Tolerant
Distributed Services for Mobile
Ad Hoc Networks) project.
This project funded by the
ANR (Agence Nationale pour
la Recherche / National Agency
for the Research) involves
the LaBRI (Bordeaux, France),
LIH (Le Havre, France),
VALORIA (Vannes, France)
and XLIM (Limoges, France)
laboratories.
His favourite research interests
are Computer Science, Network
and Security.
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FRANCO
BORELLO
Politecnico di Torino
Franco Borello (M.S.) is
a research assistant in
the e-Lite research group
at the Department of Computer
Science and Automation of
Politecnico di Torino. He
received his M.S. degree
in Electronics Engineering
from Politecnico di Torino
in 2004. He has been involved
in a collaboration with
Fiat-Auto and Politecnico
di Torino concerning the
development of UML-based
modelling techniques and
of prediction methodologies
for functional and reliability
characterization of automotive
electronic systems. His
current research interests
include domotics, home-related
technologies and digital
terrestrial television technologies.
Currently he is involved
in the development of the
TV-Smart project sponsored
by Progetto Lagrange-Fondazione
CRT and C.R.I.T.-Rai.
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JOSÉ
BRAVO
Associate Professor, Information
Technologies and Systems
Department - Castilla-La
Mancha University
José Bravo is the
lead of the MAmI research
group of Castilla-La Mancha
University (http://mami.uclm.es)
. The priority research
area is Ambient Intelligent
with the secondary nexts:
- Context-Awareness
- Natural Interaction (Implicit
& Embedded Interactions)
- RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification)
- Ubiquitous Computing
José Bravo is the
Program Chair of some AmI
events:
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1st Workshop of Ubiquitous
Computing & Ambient
Intelligence (WUCAmI'03)
- S. Sebastián (Spain)
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1st Symposium of Ubiquitous
Computing & Ambient
Intelligence (UCAmI'05)
- Granada (Spain)
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2nd Workshop of Ubiquitous
Computing & Ambient
Intelligence (WUCAmI'06)
- Puertollano - C. Real
(spain)
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2nd Symposium of Ubiquitous
Computing & Ambient
Intelligence (UCAmI'07)
- Zaragoza (Spain)
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CELINE
BURGOD
XLIM UMR CNRS 6172 University
Of Limoges
Céline Burgod is
PhD. Student at the University
of Limoges and she is co-supervised
by Pierre-François
Bonnefoi and Serge
Chaumette (LaBRI, University
Bordeaux 1) since October
2005. She received her Bachelor
of Science in Computing
from Napier University in
Edinburgh, Scotland in 2004.
She obtained is Master at
the University Bordeaux
1 (France). The subject
of her Master thesis was
“Cooperation incentives
for a secure routing based
on
micropayments with secure
processor”. Her favourite
research interests are Computer
Science, Network and Security.
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JACQUES
BUS
Head of Unit, D4 - ICT for
Trust and Security
DG Information Society -
European Commission
Jacques Bus, born in the
Netherlands in 1947, studied
Mathematics at the University
of Amsterdam and obtained
his PhD with a thesis in
Numerical Mathematics. He
worked as a researcher at
CWI (Amsterdam) for 15 years.
In 1988 he joined the European
Commission services in the
Unit for Computer Integrated
Manufacturing in the Esprit
programme. Since then he
has been responsible for
programme wide operational
and organisational affairs
in the Esprit and IST programme
and for Informatics support
in DG Information Society.
From June 2000 till March
2004 he was Head of the
Unit Software Technologies
and Distributed Systems
in the IST programme, which
included the coordination
of activities on Open Source
Software within the IST
programme. Since early 2003
he has been active in the
preparation of a European
Security Research Programme
addressing development of
multidisciplinary, integrated
solutions for the security
of citizens. From March
2004 he has taken responsibilities
for the unit ICT for Trust
and Security in the IST
Programme, which includes
Research and technology
Development for Network
and Information System Security,
Trustworthy Computing and
DRM, Biometrics, Identity
management and Critical
Information Infrastructure
Protection.
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Dr
STEFANO CAMPADELLO
Principal Scientist, Nokia
Research Center
Stefano Campadello received
his M.S. in electrical engineering
from the University of Padova
in 1995 and his Lic. Tech.
and Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University of Helsinki
in 2003. In 2001 he joined
Nokia Research Center (NRC)
in the Software Technology
Laboratory, where he has
contributed as a technology
expert in several projects
related to SW architectures
and platforms. Examples
include trust and privacy,
security implications of
social applications, and
security in P2P networks.
Stefano has been a strong
contributor in the preparation
and planning of several
EU-projects and has also
acted as a reviewer of EU-project
proposals. He has several
international publications
and his research interests
are in trust and security
as well as user interaction
aspects of SW platforms
and architectures for de-centralized
computing networks.
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FULVIO
CORNO
Associate Professor - Politecnico
di Torino
Fulvio Corno (Associate
Professor) is an Associate
Professor at the Department
of Computer Science and
Automation of Politecnico
di Torino. He received his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electronics and Computer
Science Engineering, respectively,
from Politecnico di Torino
in 1991 and 1995. He is
(or was) involved in several
European IV FP ESPRIT (ATSEC,
FOST) and V FP IST projects
(AMATISTA), SOCRATES-ODL
(MOISE), SOCRATES-MINERVA
(CABLE), e-Learning (PRAISE),
IV FP NoE (COGAIN).
His current research interests
include computational intelligence
applied to network applications,
e-business web architectures,
intelligent agents for user
interfaces, domotics, and
semantic elaboration platforms.
He published more than 100
papers at international
conferences and 10 on international
journals.
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HARMKE
DE GROOT
Lead Program Manager EMIC
- European Microsoft
Innovation Center
Mrs. Ir. Harmke de Groot
is currently working as
lead program manager at
the European Microsoft Innovation
Center in Aachen, which
has the mission to create
technology through collaborative
applied research. EMIC researchers
work on Pervasive Networking,
Sensor and context management,
Web Services , Dynamic Security,
Service Level Agreement
and Workflow solutions that
can be applied in the home,
mobile and enterprise domain.
Before joining Microsoft
she was Ambient Intelligence
system architect and European
project manager at Philip
Research, working on connected
home platforms and leading
the IST FP6 Amigo and BETSY
projects. She started her
industrial career at Philips
Semiconductors, now NXP,
as a system architect in
the area of communication
systems, where she contributed
to the standardisation and
development of the first
Bluetooth baseband solution.
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Dr
SABINE DELAITRE
Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies of
Seville Joint Research Center
- European Commission
Sabine Delaitre is a Computer
Scientist with a Doctorate
(since December 2000) in
the areas of Artificial
Intellience, Knowledge Management
and Risk Management from
the Ecole des Mines de Paris
and in collaboration with
the French Research organisation
INRIA at Sophia Antipolis.
During the period 2001-2004,
she worked on a number of
EU-funded projects in areas
of computer network security,
Knowledge Management for
eGovernment, eBusiness and
eLearning domains. In July
2004, she joined the ICT
unit, IPTS, European Commission's
DG JRC. She is currently
working on projects related
to Cybersecurity activities
(Future of Identity, Privacy,
Security, Threat and Ambient
Intelligence Space) and
on FIDIS: Network of Excellence
for the Future of IDentity
in the Information Society.
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BERNADETTE
DORIZZI
Project Coordinator
Bernadette Dorizzi was born
in 1955 and she got her
PhD (Thèse d'état)
in Theoretical Physics at
the University of Orsay
(Paris XI-France) in 1983,
on the study of integrability
of dynamical systems. She
is Professor at Institut
National des Télécommunications
since September 1989, at
the head of the Electronics
and PHysics department since
1995 where she is in charge
of the Intermedia (Interaction
for Multimedia) research
team. Her present reseach
activity is related to the
biometric domain. She is
coordinator of the Bio-Identity
GET research project (http://www.int-evry/biometrics)
and of the BioSecure Network
of Excellence (http://biosecure.info).
She is author of more than
300 research papers and
has supervized 15 Phd thesis.
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WOLFGANG
EFFING
Executive Vice President
/ Technology Division New
Business - Giesecke &
Devrient
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M.
CARMEN FERNÁNDEZ-GAGO
Research Assistant - School
of Informatics at the University
of Malaga
M. Carmen Fernández-Gago
is a post-doctoral research
assistant. She holds a PhD
in Computer Science from
the University of Liverpool
(UK). Her research interests
are in the area of formal
methods applied to security
engineering. She has been
involved in EPSRC (British
Research council) funded
projects as a postdoctoral
research assistant.
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SEBASTIAN
FEUERSTACK
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Sebastian Feuerstack is
currently working on his
Ph.D. thesis in the area
of model-based user interfaces
at the Technische Universität
Berlin (TUB), where he received
his computer science diploma.
The subject of his diploma
thesis was "An Architecture
for Ubiquitous Service Access
in Distributed Systems".
His research interests include
model-based generation of
user interfaces and methodologies
for designing interactive
applications. He has participated
in several research projects
founded by the German Federal
Government, Deutsche Telekom
AG and others.
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ALESSANDRO
GARBO
Dipartimento di Automatica
ed Informatica, Politecnico
di Torino
Alessandro Garbo (M.S.)
is a Ph.D student in the
e-Lite research group at
the Department of Computer
Science and Automation of
Politecnico di Torino. He
received his M.S. degree
in Informatics and Computer
Science Engineering from
Politecnico di Torino in
2003. His current research
interests include Human
Computer Interaction, with
a particular focus on eye
and head tracking technologies,
computer vision and face
recognition, Argumentative
Augmentative and Alternative
Communication, with a particular
focus on ambiguous keyboards
and symbolic communication,
usability and accessible
interfaces, domotics and
home-related technologies.
Currently he is involved
in the COGAIN European project
IV FP NoE. He published
1 paper at international
conferences.
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MARTIN
GIERSICH
Mobile Multimedia Information
Systems Group - Rostock
University
Martin Giersich received
his diploma in computer
science at University of
Bremen, Germany in 1999.
From 1999 to 2004 he was
scientific assistant at
the Fraunhofer Institute
for Computer Graphics in
Rostock, Department Mobile
Multimedia Tech-nologies.
Since 2005 he is working
as scientific assistant
at the chair for Mobile
Multimedia Information Systems
at Rostock University and
is engaging in localization,
situation awareness and
intention analysis.
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PAOLO
GIORGINI
Department of Information
and Communication technology
- University of Trento
Paolo Giorgini is researcher
at University of Trento.
He received his Ph.D. degree
from Computer Science Institute
of University of Ancona
(Italy) in 1998. Between
March and October 1998 he
worked at University of
Macerata and University
of Ancona as research assistant.
In November 1998 he joined
the Mechanized Reasoning
Group (MRG) at University
of Trento as pos-doc researcher.
In December 1998 he was
researcher visiting at the
Computer Science Department
of University of Toronto
(Canada) and more recently
he was visiting researcher
at the Software Engineering
Department of University
of Technology in Sydney.
He has worked on the development
of requirements and design
languages for agent-based
systems, and the application
of knowledge representation
techniques to software repositories
and software development.
He is one of the funder
of Tropos, an agent-based
oreineted software engineering
methodology. His publication
list includes more than
130 refereed journal and
conference proceedings papers
and eight edited books.
He has been the coordinator
for University of Trento
of the European's Network
of Excellence for Agent-Based
Computing (AgentLink I,
II, and III), and he has
contributed to the organization
of international conferences
as chair and program committee
member, such as CoopIS,
ER, CAiSE, AAMAS, EUMAS,
AOSE, AOIS, and ISWC. He
is Co-editor in Chief of
the International Journal
of Agent-Oriented Software
Engineering (IJAOSE).
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ANNE
HARDY
SAP Research Center Sophia
Antipolis Director
Anne Hardy is the Director
of SAP Research SRC Sophia
Antipolis.
She holds an engineering
degree from the Ecole Nationale
Superieure des Telecommunications,
Paris, France and a Master
of Business Administration
from the Theseus Management
Institute, Sophia Antipolis,
France.
She is member of the SAP
Research's Executive Leadership
Team and executive sponsor
of Security and Trust Research
at SAP.
Prior to joining SAP, Anne
Hardy was consultant for
Sophia Euro Lab, a seed
investment fund based in
Sophia Antipolis, France.
Before that she spent many
years successively in product
development, strategic research,
advanced technology investments
with Nortel Networks in
Santa Clara, California,
USA, where she successively
held development and management
positions.
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THOMAS
HEIDER
Mobile Multimedia Information
Systems Group - Rostock
University
Thomas Heider received his
diploma in communications
engineering at the University
of Rostock, Germany in 1999.
From 2000 to 2004 he worked
as a scientific assistant
at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Computer Graphics in
Rostock, Department Mobile
Multimedia Technologies.
Currently he is a scientific
assistant at the chair for
Mobile Multimedia Information
Sys-tems at Rostock University.
His research interests include
Distributed Systems, Intelligent
Assistance and Artificial
Intelli-gence.
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AXEL
HEßLER
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Axel Heßler is a researcher
at the DAI-Labor. He has
worked on numerous projects
within the lab, including
the JIAC IV agent-platform.
Currently he is finalising
his PhD thesis about agent-oriented
methodologies.
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Dr
BENJAMIN HIRSCH
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Dr. Benjamin Hirsch studied
Artificial Intelligence
at the University of Amsterdam,
and obtained his PhD at
the University of Liverpool
(with distinction, and currently
pending for the "distinguished
dissertation award 2006"
of the BCS). He is the Director
of the Competence Center
Agent Core Technologies
at the DAI Labor of the
Technische Universität
Berlin. Under his supervision,
the competence center staffs
several projects related
to serviceware frameworks
and service engineering.
He is also managing director
of the project offices of
the DAI Labor. Furthermore,
he is actively involved
in research on agent technologies
and has authored a number
of papers, as well as reviewed
in numerous agent related
conferences.
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WIDE
HOGENHOUT
Future & Emerging Technologies
Unit - European Commission
Wide Hogenhout obtained
his first degree in computer
science at the Free University
of Amsterdam. He holds a
Ph.D. from the Nara Institute
of Science and Technology
in Japan, on the topic of
natural language processing
and machine learning. After
this he worked in industry
for a number of years doing
research on automatic speech
recognition and dialogue
management for speech recognition
systems. In 2004 he joined
the Future and Emerging
Technologies unit of the
European Commission, where
he is responsible for initiatives
around Global Computing
and Situated and Autonomic
Communication.
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Dr
SILKE HOLTMANNS
R&D Specialist - Nokia
Research Center - Helsinki
Dr. Silke Holtmanns studied
Mathematics with Computer
Science at the Heriott Watt
University Edinburgh (Scotland)
and University of Paderborn
(Germany), where she received
her Diploma in 1996. She
was working in research
and education a the University
of Paderborn as a Scientific
Employee and received in
2000 her Ph. D. in Mathematics.
In 2000 she started at the
Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland
GbmH Aachen (Germany) in
the Research department
of Service Networks and
Applications Technology.
Since 2004 she is affiliated
with the Nokia Research
Center in Helsinki (Finland)
Software and Applications
Technology Department. She
has written many scientific
articles on mobile security,
privacy and trust and was
working in several program
commitees. She has been
involved and in various
standardization bodies e.g.
3GPP Security, TISPAN, OMA,
Liberty Alliance and is
currently rapporteur of
five ETSI specifications.
She was team member of several
European Union projects
such as SERENITY, PAMPAS,
MobiLife and Ambient Networks.
Her research interest lies
on the creation of trustworthy
relationships in mobile
communities and networks.
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Dr
MARTIN ILLSLEY
Director - Accenture Technology
Labs Europe
Dr. Martin Illsley is Director
of Accenture Technology
Labs Europe. He is an expert
on all aspects of emerging
technologies and technology
innovation, including identifying
strategic technology trends,
their business implications
and applied research and
development.
As Director of the Labs,
Martin leads Accenture's
European technology R&D
organization whose mission
is to turn technology innovation
into business results. He
heads up the Labs' team
enabling organizations across
all industries to access
innovative, patent-protected
technology solutions and
prototypes to help them
enhance their business performance.
For example, he created
a retail banking vision,
from conception to project
planning, and for an oil
and gas company he developed
a vision of how their industry
is being affected by new
technologies.
Often quoted in the media
in publications such as
The Financial Times, Information
Week, Computing, Retail
Week Store of the Future,
The Guardian, Martin is
sought out for his provocative
points of view on technology
trends and his visionary
presentations.
Since joining Accenture
in 1991, Martin has worked
with many clients from some
of the world's largest companies
across a wide range of industries
advising C-level executives
on new technologies and
innovation. Martin has worked
on identifying business
implications of many technologies
ranging from mainframe,
batch and legacy systems
through ecommerce and multimedia
to silent commerce and intelligent
systems. He studied mathematics
at Brunel University and
received a PhD in Computer
Science from Edinburgh University
in 1988.
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THOMAS
KIRSTE
Mobile Multimedia Information
Systems Group - Rostock
University
Thomas Kirste studied computer
science at Technical University
of Darmstadt and received
diploma and PhD. As head
at the Fraunhofer Institute
for Computer Graphics he
installed the new departments
Mobile Multimedia Technologies
(in Ros-tock) and Interactive
Multimedia Appliances (Darmstadt).
In December 2004 he was
appointed Professor at Rostock
Uni-versity and since holds
the chair for Mobile Multimedia
Information Systems. Along
with his associates Thomas
Kirste re-searchs technologies
for situation aware spontaneous
cooperation of information
appliances.
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THOMAS
KONNERTH
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Thomas Konnerth studied
computer science at the
Technische Universität
Berlin. Since finishing
his Diploma, he has been
working as a Researcher
at the DAI-Labor on several
projects including the JIAC
IV agent-platform. Currently
he is working on his PhD
thesis which is focused
on the subject of integrating
agent-oriented techniques
with service oriented approaches.
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GRZEGORZ
LEHMANN
DAI-Labor, Technische Universität
Berlin
Grzegorz Lehmann is a student
at the DAI-Labor of the
Technical University of
Berlin. He participated
in the Seamless Home Services
project funded by the Deutsche
Telekom and is currently
working in the Service Centric
Home (SerCHo) project (funded
by the German government).
Both projects cover the
development of services
for the home environment.
His research interest covers
ambient intelligence, model-based
user interfaces development
and object-oriented software
engineering.
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MIKKO
LEHTONEN
Information Management,
ETH Zurich
Mikko Lehtonen is a PhD
candidate at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology
Zürich (ETH Zürich)
since January 2006. He gratuated
from Helsinki University
of Technology (HUT), Finland
in 2006 with a Master of
Science from the department
of Electrical and Communications
Engineering. He also has
a diploma from the Multimedia
Communications department
of Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis,
France.
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BRIGITTE
LONC
Project Manager - Renault
S.A.S.
Her technical expertise
is on IT & communication
systems, including distributed
system architecture, wireless
& mobile communications,
real-time embedded systems,
Web Services, internet technologies,
security solutions, Smart-cards
and mobile devices.
In Renault, she worked on
several projects in the
area of Intelligent Transport
Systems: GST (open platform
for Telematics Services),
TRASCOM (development of
an m-Marketplace to support
users for inter-modal transport).
Previously she was in charge
of the specification of
the vehicle's "key-card"
for the M2-S car range (Laguna2)
and of the development of
the Services Integration
Platform using this contactless
card.
She got a PhD on Computer
Science on Protocols formal
specification and validation
at CNAM- Paris in 1988.
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IOANNIS
MAGHIROS
Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies of
Seville Joint Research Center
- European Commission
Ioannis Maghiros holds a
Master's Degree in Information
Science from the University
of Birmingham, UK, having
originally studied Physics.
He currently works at the
European Commission's DG
Joint Research Centre, Institute
for Prospective Technological
Studies, in Seville Spain
as a Principal Scientific
Officer in charge of the
Cyber-security sector. He
has been working for the
European Commission since
1990 as a scientific Officer
engaged in various research
activities in the field
of Information and Communication
Technologies including leading
the team working on the
development and operation
of the e-payment systems
Observatory (ePSO). He was
also in charge of the production
of 'The IPTS Report' and
the development and implementation
of the European Science
and Technology Observatory
(ESTO) Network. Prior to
joining the European Commission
he had been working for
IBM in Greece.
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PETER
MIKULECKY
University of Hradec Králové,
Czech Republic
Born in 1948 in Slovakia.
He studied Mathematics with
graduation in 1971, and
received the PhD. in Computational
Mathematics in 1981. In
1990 he became a head of
the first Department of
Artificial Intelligence
in Czechoslovakia.
From 1994 Prof. Peter Mikulecký
serves as the head of the
Department of Information
Technologies at the University
of Hradec Králové.
He is a member of numerous
scientific committees. Since
2004 he is a member of the
Accreditation Commission
of the Government of the
Slovak Republic.
His professional interests
cover knowledge technologies
and systems, knowledge management,
artificial intelligence,
and human - machines cooperation
and interaction.
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ANTONIO
MUÑOZ
Research Assistant - School
of Informatics at the University
of Malaga
Antonio Muñoz is
a research assistant and
holds an MSc degree in Computer
Science (University of Malaga,
Spain, thesis received higher
honours). His principal
research interests are in
the area of Multi Agent
Systems Security and Ubiquitous
Computing Security. He has
been involved in the EU
Framework project UBISEC
and he is currently involved
in SERENITY.
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MARKETTA
NIEMELÄ
Research Scientist - VTT
Technical Research Centre
of Finland
Marketta Niemelä (M.
Psych., Ph.D.) is a Research
Scientist at VTT Technical
Research Centre of Finland.
She received her doctoral
degree in user-friendly
computer interfaces and
visualisation in 2003. Currently
her research interests consider
human-centred design, user
experience, and ethical
issues of ambient intelligence
and smart environments.
In particular, she works
in mobile-centric ambient
intelligence projects.
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KAMILA
OLŠEVICOVÁ
University of Hradec Králové,
Czech Republic
Kamila Olševicová,
Ph.D. is an assistant professor
at the Faculty of Informatics
and Management, University
of Hradec Kralove, Czech
Republic. She received her
master degree in secondary
school teaching of mathematics
and informatics (2001) and
doctoral degree in information
and knowledge management
(2005). Her doctoral dissertation
was focused on application
of knowledge management
principles in virtual learning
environments. Main research
interests of Dr. Olševicová
are knowledge modeling,
intelligent applications
in education and development
of knowledge-based systems.
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YVES
PUNIE
Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies of
Seville Joint Research Center
- European Commission
Since May 2001, Yves Punie
works as a researcher at
the Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies (IPTS)
in Seville, one of joint
research centres of the
European Commission. In
general, his projects deal
with the socio-economic
and technological monitoring
and analysis of the future
of domestic new media technologies
such as Ambient Intelligence.
Punie holds a Phd. in Social
Sciences (Media Studies)
at the Free University of
Brussels (VUB). His doctoral
thesis was on the use and
acceptance of ICTs in everyday
life, also known as domestication
of ICTs (June 2000). He
was interim Assistant Professor
in the Sociology of Technology
& Media at the VUB and
senior researcher at SMIT
(Studies on Media, Information
and Telecommunication).
His expertise is on social
studies of new technologies,
especially in relation to
the domestic environment
and the future of media
industries.
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FRANCISCO
SANCHEZ-CID
Research Assistant - School
of Informatics at the University
of Malaga
Francisco Sanchez-Cid is
a research assistant and
holds an MSc degree in Computer
Science (University of Malaga,
Spain, thesis received higher
honours). His principal
research interests are in
the area of software engineering
and security engineering.
Francisco has been involved
in two EU Framework projects,
namely CASENET (for University
of Malaga) and SECSE (for
City University of London).
Currently, he coordinates
the UMA team in the SERENITY
project.
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DAMIEN
SAUVERON
Assistant Professor, XLIM,
UMR CNRS 6172 – University
of Limoges
Since 2004/09 Damien Sauveron
is assistant Professor at
the XLIM Laboratory (UMR
CNRS 6172) of the University
of Limoges (France) where
he is member of the "Security
of Information" team.
He obtained his Ph.D in
Computer Science at
the University Bordeaux
1 (France) in December 2004.
The subject of his thesis
that he carried out in the
Distributed Systems and
Objects team of the LaBRI
was on the Java Card security
(development of an emulator
to experiment attacks against
Java Card platform and applets;
modeling some security problems).
He introduced the concept
of pre-persistance in Java
Card and he highlighted
a new category of attacks
on the open multiapplication
smart cards. From 2001/09
to 2004/09, he worked on
the Java Card security in
the ITSEF (Information Technology
Security Evaluation Facilities)
of SERMA Technologies. From
2006/02 to 2006/04, he was
invited researcher at the
Royal Holloway, University
of London and from 2006/04
to 2006/08 he was in a postdoctoral
position of the Smart Card
Centre (SCC) in the Information
Security Group (ISG) of
the Royal Holloway. His
research interests are Security
of
Smart Card (at hardware
and software level), Security
of the Java Card technology
and multiapplication smart
cards, Security of Mobile
ad hoc networks, Security
of Distributed Objects and
Systems, Security evaluation/certification
processes, and Smart Card
applications.
Damien Sauveron is member
of the IFIP WG 8.8 Smart
Cards and of the IFIP WG
11.2 Small System Security.
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DANIEL
SERRANO
Research Assistant - School
of Informatics at the University
of Malaga
Daniel Serrano is also a
research assistant and holds
an MSc degree in Computer
Science from University
of Malaga. His principal
research interests are in
the area of automated software
engineering and security
engineering. Daniel has
previously participated
in the ASD project funded
by the regional government
of Andalusia.
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PASCAL
SPADONE
SAP Research
Pascal joined SAP Research
Sophia Antipolis in December
2003.
He is currently working
on the R4EGov FP6 project,
as a member of the "Business
Process Management and "Semantic
Integration" research program.
Prior to this he worked
2 years in the Securityand
Trust program for the eJustice
project, a time during which
his activities included
the design of an access-control
architecture for workflow
management systems,
which lead to several publications
and patents.
In addition Pascal designed
and implemented Gabriel, the
task management component
of the SAP Research tool
suite.
He obtained his master's
degree in computer science
in 2003 from the University
of Nice - Sophia Antipolis.
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Dr
NORBERT STREITZ
Senior Scientist and Strategic
Advisor, AMBIENTE - Smart
Environments of the Future,
Fraunhofer IPSI
Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil.
Norbert Streitz (Ph. D.
in physics and Ph.D. in
psychology)
is a Senior Scientist and
Strategic Advisor with more
than 20 years of experience
in
information and communication
technology. He initiated
and managed the research
division
"AMBIENTE – Smart
Environments of the Future"
at the Fraunhofer institute
IPSI in
Darmstadt, Germany, where
he also teaches at the Department
of Computer Science of
the Technical University
Darmstadt. He has published/edited
16 books and (co)authored
more than 100 technical
papers. He was the Chair
of the Steering Group of
the EU-funded
research initiative "The
Disappearing Computer"
and was involved in many
other EU-funded
projects and efforts. He
is now the co-chair of the
recently established ERCIM
Working
Group “Smart Environments
and Systems for Ambient
Intelligence (SESAMI)”.
(more info: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~streitz)
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CEDRIC
ULMER
SAP Research
Cedric joined SAP Research
in Sophia Antipolis in January
2002.
He is currently working
on risk management related
issues. His focus is on
the eMergency project, which
deals with helping firefighters
onsite through a SAP NetWeaver
portal. It integrates technologies
such as a GIS, geolocalisation
of vehicles, and retrieval
of logistics
data.
Cedric is also part of the
French pole de competitive
Risques that groups industries
and academics interested
in risk oriented topics.
Before this, he worked for
the Consensus project, as
a Workpackage Leader. This
FP5 Project was developing
a Device Independent Markup
Language for User Interfaces,
as well as the adaptation
engine that translates this
new language into a compatible
markup language. He
has been member of the W3C-Device
Independence Working Group
for two years, as editor
of the Core Presentation
Characteristics document.
He holds the Telecom INT
"Grande ecole"
diploma, specialized in
Corporate Communications
at the Eurecom institute.
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ANTTI-MATTI
VAINIO
Institute of Electronics
- Tampere University of
Technology
Antti-Matti Vainio is a
researcher at the Tampere
University of Technology.
He is doing research in
the Personal Electronics
Group at the Institute of
Electronics. His main research
interests include software
systems for smart environments,
user interfaces for these
environments, mobile computing
and adaptive control systems
in smart spaces. He received
his Master of Science in
2006 from Tampere University
of Technology, majoring
in Software Engineering.
He has been working in the
academics for 4 years and
is starting his postgraduate
studies in this research
area.
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MIIKA
VALTONEN
Institute of Electronics
- Tampere University of
Technology
Miika Valtonen is a electronics
student at the Tampere University
of Technology. He has embedded
systems as his major and
focuses in both hardware
and software computing.
He is currently writing
his Masters thesis on proactive
and adaptive control systems
for smart homes. He is doing
his research in the Personal
Electronics Group at the
Institute of Electronics
at the Tampere University
of Technology. His main
interests are ubiquitous
and proactive systems as
well as presentation systems.
Previously he has worked
as a computer administrator
and in aviation related
jobs.
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JUKKA
VANHALA
Institute of Electronics
- Tampere University of
Technology
Mr Jukka Vanhala is a professor
at the Tampere University
of Technology, Institute
of Electronics, being responsible
of teaching embedded systems.
Vanhala is also a head of
the Kankaapää
Research Unit for Wearable
Technology. His research
interests include ambient
intelligence, smart garments
and embedded systems. He
received his Master of Science
in 1985, Licentiate of Technology
in 1990 and Doctor of Technology
in Computer Science in 1998,
all from Tampere University
of Technology. Vanhala has
worked in the academics
for 15 years and in the
industry for 5 years both
in Finland and in the USA.
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ERIC
VETILLARD
CTO - Trusted Labs
Eric Vetillard is the CTO
of Trusted Labs, a spin-off
from Trusted Logic that
provides security-related
services. He is in particular
responsible for the security
evaluation of embedded Java
platforms and applications
(Java Card, J2ME).
Before that, he has been
Chief Architect at Trusted
Logic, and Java Architect
at Gemplus. He has been
an active member of the
Java Card Forum since its
inception in 1997, and he
has contributed to all Java
Card specifications.
Eric Vetillard is a regular
speaker at JavaOne, eSmart,
and other technical conferences.
He holds a M.S. from Florida
State University, and a
Ph.D. from the University
of Marseille.
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Dr
KONRAD WRONA
SAP Research
Dr.-Ing. Konrad Wrona is
a Principal Investigator
at SAP Research Lab in Sophia
Antipolis, France. He has
over seven years of work
experience in an industrial
(SAP Research and Ericsson
Research) and in an academic
(RWTH Aachen University,
Media Lab Europe, and Rutgers
University) research and
development environment.
He is an author and a co-author
of over twenty publications,
as well as a co-inventor
of seven patents. The areas
of his professional interests
include security in communication
networks, wireless and mobile
applications, distributed
systems, applications of
sensor networks, and electronic
commerce.
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ZHENG
YAN
Senior Research Engineer,
Nokia Research Center -
Helsinki
Zheng Yan received her Licentiate
from the Helsinki University
of Technology in 2005. She
has two M.Eng degrees got
from the Xi'an Jiaotong
University in 1997 and the
National University of Singapore
in 2000, respectively. She
joined the Nokia Research
Center in 2000, located
at Helsinki, Finland. Prior
to this, she worked in Singapore
as a research scholar at
the Institute of Information
Research for secure and
fair e-payment research
and a software engineer
at an IBM partner company
for developing an IBM global
electronic ordering system.
She is a member of the IEEE
and the IEEE Computer Society.
Her current research interests
are trust modeling and management,
trusted computing and communications.
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Pr
LAURENCE T. YANG
Saint Francis-Xavier University,
Canada
Professor Laurence T. Yang
teaches at the St. Francis-Xavier
University of Halifax (Canada).
His research interests cover
ambient intelligence in
general as well as design
and test of embedded systems,
high performance computing
and networking, ubiquitous/pervasive
computing and intelligence,
autonomic and trusted computing
and computational science
and engineering. He is editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Ubiquitous
Computing and Intelligence
(American Scientific Publishers)
in which the two best AmI.d
papers will be published.
His contribution to scientific
publications also include
being editor or guest editor
of journals such as the
International Journal of
Security and Networks (IJSN),
the Journal of Computer
Science (JCS). His published
work comprises books for
which he has been appointed
editor-in-chief or editor:
Handbook on Mobile Ad Hoc
and Pervasive Communications
(American Scientific Publishers,
2006).
As a keynote speaker, he
has recently taken part
in leading-edge scientific
conferences such as the
2006 International Symposium
on Embedded Engineering
(Korea) and the 11th International
CSI Conference on Computer
Conference (CSICC-06, Iran).
He is scheduled as keynote
speaker at the AmI.d conference.
He has also been awarded
Best Paper at the IEEE AINA-06
conference among 521 submissions.
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