Speakers - The Internet of Things and Services 2008 Workshop (1st edition) - September 18-19, 2008 - Sophia Antipolis

	ADEDAYO ADETOYE IMSS Research Centre, University of Reading Adedayo Adetoye is a Research Fellow at the IMSS Research Centre, University of Reading, working on Security in Middleware environments. He is interested in all aspects of end-to-end security in computing systems, and in particular the formal aspects of security engineering, security policies and their enforcement, as well as the formal analyses of system security. His PhD research at the University of Birmingham, UK was on the analysis and enforcement of secure information flow in computer programs. He had an advanced Masters degree, with distinction, in Data Communications, Networks and Distributed Systems at the University College London where he worked on a multi-agent based network intrusion detection and response system. He holds a 1st class Honours degree in Computer Science.


	SAFDAR ALI Associate Project Manager in SmartHEALTH Project Safdar Ali was born in Gujrat, Pakistan in 1977 where he got diploma in Electrical A. Engg. and B.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked for 3 years as Software Engineer in IT companies in Pakistan before he came to the University of Saarland, Germany in 2002. He completed his M.Sc. in Computer Science with distinction in 2004 and afterwards he is pursuing his Ph.D in Computer Science (Medical Informatics) from the University of Saarland and participating as Associate Project Manager in SmartHEALTH Project at the Dept. of Intelligent Health Systems of Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering. His interests include Ambient Intelligence, Semantic Web, Web Services, Description Logics Reasoning, Ad-hoc P2P Networking.


	PABLO ANTOLÍN RAFAEL Pablo Antolín Rafael is a R&D Engineer in the Digital Home Equipment Department of Telefónica I+D (TID). He studied Computer Science at the University of Valladolid, Spain. There, he collaborated with the Digital Libraries and Information Recovery Systems Investigation Group, as honorific collaborator. As an expert in SOA and web development, he is being involved in many European projects from different programs, among them 6th FP (Hydra, eu-DOMAIN, AMI4SME, AMIGO, BIOSEC, NM2, INTELLIDRUG), eContent (MOBIGUIDING), SIAP (POESIA) and ETEN (RePUBLIC).


	ATTA BADII Founding Director - IMSS Atta Badii, Founding Director of IMSS, is a Professorial Research Fellow with a multi-disciplinary academic and industrial research experience in the fields of Distributed Intelligent and Interactive Systems, Cooperative and Pervasive Technologies, Pattern Recognition, Security & Trust Architectures and Workflow and Enterprise Application Integration. He led the research on Workflow Integration, Multimedia Adaptation and Mobile Distribution within the EU FP6 IP Axmedis IP (www.Axmedis.org), is the Coordinator of the EU FP6 Network Security Real-time IDS STREP FastMatch (www.FastMatch.org), Scientific and Technical leader of EU Project MoveON and the Coordinator of EU project CompanionAble, the technical leader/ reviewer/invited expert for a number of other EU projects. Atta Badii Chaired of the Security Architectures and Virtualisation Taskforce of the European RoadMap Security Project SECURIST (www.securitytaskforce.org). Atta has had over twenty years of ICT research experience including the management of major collaborative research programmes. This has involved research funded by the UK EPSRC, DTI as well as the Aerospace and Telecommunications industries and MoD Grand Challenge in areas such as hybrid Neural Networks and AI-based solutions in complex task domains e.g. real-time computer speech recognition, dynamic AI contingency planning and problems of representation and control in hybrid pattern-directed inference systems. Atta has made fundamental contributions to pushing forward the frontiers of research in Security Context Representation and Mitigation, Access Technologies, Ontology-based Semantic Integration, Usability Evaluation and Human-Computer Interaction (e.g. Dynamic Usability Theory, Web-mediated Online Usability Evaluation Systems, Advanced Personalisation) and Workflow Integration. He has over 90 publications to-date including refereed journal publications, refereed specialist research conferences publications and book chapters and serves on various editorial, steering and senior academic appointment boards.


	DR. SHARON COX Reader and Head of Research at the Department of Computing - Birmingham City University Dr Sharon Cox is a Reader and Head of Research at the Department of Computing at Birmingham City University in the UK. She previously worked for Jaguar Cars, leaving to accept a PhD studentship from Aston University. Following completion of her PhD in 1996, she formalised the ISDABS methodology (Information Systems Development Aligned with Business Strategy) which assists companies in developing IS/IT and e-business strategies. This methodology uses tools to analyse the business context and has been successfully used in an action research programme with a major UK manufacturer, contributing to the development of their e-business strategy and the implementation of e-collaboration systems in their supply chain. Her recent work includes the development of approaches to support context analysis in home, education and business environments. Her other research interests include: the strategic alignment of information systems, approaches to formulate e-business strategies, e-business collaboration in the supply chain and corporate data management. She is a member of programme committees for a number of international conferences and has published in a range of conferences and journals. Her recent publications include the Encyclopaedia of E-Collaboration and Encyclopaedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration.


	DR. MARKUS EISENHAUER Head of the Mobile Knowledge group - Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Information Technology (FIT) Dr. Markus Eisenhauer heads the Mobile Knowledge group at the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Information Technology (FIT). He has a PhD in cognitive science and is an expert on participatory system development, human factors in human-computer interaction, ergonomic evaluation methodology, cognitive experiments, adaptive and adaptable information systems, cognitive and user modelling, and nomadic information systems for information presentation. Markus has in-depth experience in consultancy, managing and realisation of international multicultural projects and he is currently the coordinator of two major EU-projects MACE an eContentPLus project on Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe and Hydra an Integrated Project on Networked Embedded System Middleware for Heterogeneous Physical Devices in a Distributed Architecture (further current major projects EU: Etracking, Intermedia. Prolearn, Bilateral: GiGaMobile, (Cooperation with TelematicaInsituut) AILB, Vibelle (Cooperation with RWTH Aachen), German: SAiMotion (funded by the BMB+F), Industry: MICA (funded by SAP).


	STEPHAN ENGBERG Founder and CEO - Priway Stephan Engberg, Founder and CEO of Priway, has been lecturing at Copenhagen Business School and the Danish IT University for a number of years on Trust Socio/Economics and Context Security & Privacy in both eBusiness and Direct Marketing. He has been an invited speaker at a range of highlevel security and privacy related conferences such as Trust in the Net, EU Security Research Conference 2007, Public Service Summit and EU-US Summit on Cybertrust. He founded Priway (formerly Open Business Innovation) in 1999 focusing on designing privacy and balanced security into technology aiming to enable National Id 2.0. Among many PET innovations, he was behind the zero-knowledge based PET technologies for RFID which is being commercialised by the Danish SME RFIDsec as an example of successful PET products balancing security requirements under extreme constraints. Stephan Engberg has since 2001 been actively involved in Security & Identity Research roadmapping for both EU FP6 and FP7 – lately as member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the EU Security & Dependability Taskforce. He has a theoretical background in both economics and computer science specialising in eBusiness Innovation Strategy & Trust Socio/Economics combined with 15 years of experience prior to establishing Priway from banking, optical telecommunications and executive consulting.


	DR. GERNOT GRAEFE Business Developer and Principal Management Consultant - Siemens AG, Siemens IT Solutions and Services Dr. Gernot Graefe is Business Developer and Principal Management Consultant at Siemens AG, Siemens IT Solutions and Services. He graduated and received his PhD in Business Administration from Paderborn University. His research interests are innovation management and information quality on the Internet.


	ANDREA GUARISE Andrea Guarise in 2001 took a master degree in Telecommunication Engineering at Università di Bologna in Italy. In September 2001 he worked in a joint activity between Università di Trento and Centro Ricerche Fiat. In 2002 he has become Centro Ricerche Fiat employee in the Info-Telematic group of the company branch in Trento. Since that period he participated in different research projects, both at national and at international level. He worked in the European projects "Gallant" and "Galilei" within the GALILEO GJU EC program and "ActMAP" within the IST EC program as technical and management reference for CRF. He was involved in the preparation of the "FeedMAP" project as well as in the working group of the "SAFESPOT" integrated project. In January 2006 he was appointed as Project Coordinator of the "WATCH-OVER" project, within the IST EC program (FP6). In June 2007 he moved to Innova S.p.A., a consultancy Company for technology transfer and R&D projects. Andrea Guarise has a distinctive technical knowledge in the field of wireless and wired network applications, satellite localisation and digital road maps, public transport management and floating car data applications.


	MARIO HOFFMANN Head of the research department “Secure Mobile Systems” - Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation (SIT), Darmstadt (Germany) Mario Hoffmann is the head of the research department “Secure Mobile Systems” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Telecooperation (SIT), Darmstadt, Germany. In addition, since February, 2004, he holds the vice chair of the Special Interest Group “Security & Trust” of the Wireless World Research Forum. Mario Hoffmann studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and at CAMTech, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and graduated in 1998. After that as a research assistant at the University of Freiburg, Germany, he laid the foundations for his main research focus in IT-Security. In the middle of 1999 he joined SIT to contribute to an international project with IBM Watson, NY, USA, and the City of Kitakyushu, Japan. Since 2001 he has led several publicly and industrially funded projects on Mobile Computing and Mobile Security. Besides project management he focused on hid PhD research on "Multilateral secure Identity Management for Mobile Context-aware Services".


	ANSGER JACOB Ansger Jacob studied Industrial Engineering at the Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany, and received his diploma degree “Diplom Wirtschaftsingenieur” (M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering) in November 2002. After his studies he worked as a consultant in business process and IT optimization in the financial sector for 2 years. Currently he is PhD student and research assistant at the Information Systems Institute 2 at Universität Hohenheim. In his research he addresses the use of context and sensor technologies in supply chains. He is currently involved in the research project IT FoodTrace funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, which targets the tracking and tracing in meat supply chains.


	PROF. DR. STEFAN KIRN Prof. Dr. Stefan Kirn studied Economics at the University of Munich (BW), Germany and Informatics at the Universität Hagen, Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. in Informatics in 1991 and was called to lead the Institute for Information Systems 2 at the University of Illmenau, Germany. In 2003 he followed a call to Universität Hohenheim, Germany, and since leads Information Systems 2. In 2005 he was co-founder of the Research Centre for Innovation and Services, which is an interdisciplinary institute at Universität Hohenheim. He is working with his team in the two Grid-driven EU projects Akogrimo and BREIN in the role of a business modeller and service developer.


	DR. JAN KRASNIEWICZ Dr. Jan Krasniewicz has a background in software development in industry and currently lectures in programming with research interests in massively parallel and distributed systems, and intelligent systems. He has also worked on a number of European funded projects in pervasive computing.


	PROF. CARLO MARIA MEDAGLIA CATTID - University of Rome “Sapienza” (Italy) Carlo Maria Medaglia was born in Rome, Italy in 1974, he had her degree in physics at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, in 1999. He has got his PhD in Remote Sensing at the Engineering faculty of University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy in 2004. Since 1999 He is working at several international research institutions around the world as ISAC-CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate),NASA (National Atmospheric and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), NOA (National Observatory of Athens) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration). He also worked as visiting professor in several universities as: University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Baltimore, University of Washington. Now he is working as consultant in the RFID/Wireless Group of the CNIPA (National Center for Informatics in the Public Administration), as full professor of Human Computer Interaction at Mass Communication Department of University of Rome “La Sapienza” and as Coordinator of the RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for Television Applications and Distance Learning Techniques) of University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He has more than 90 contribution in peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle research activities are RFID, Geolocalization, satellite remote sensing and mobile/wireless communication.


	FRANCISCO MILAGRO LARDIÉS Francisco Milagro Lardiés is an Engineer in the Digital Home Equipment Department of Telefónica I+D (TID). He studied Telecommunication Science at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has worked as V2V and P2P communications expert in several European Projects, such as Hydra, Com2React and GoodRoute.


	MARCUS MUELLER Marcus Mueller studied Economics at the Universität Hohenheim, Germany. He received his diploma degree “Diplom Ökonom” in September 2007. During his studies he worked as a self-employed IT-consultant for the tax adviser sector. Currently he is PhD student and research assistant at the Information Systems Institute 2 at Universität Hohenheim. His work focuses the use of sensor networks in economic value systems. At the moment he is involved in the research project BEinGrid funded by the European Commission. Within this project he works in the business experiment AgroGrid, which targets the use of Grid-technologies in the agricultural sector.


	PETER ROSENGREN Peter Rosengren is the managing director of CNet Sweden and one of the founders of the company. He has a Master's degree and a degree of Licentiate of Technology in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He is one of the architects and developers behind Visual Net Server, a semantic annotation server. He has long-time experience in service oriented architectures and his current work is focused on web service architectures, semantic web interoperability, ontologies, mobile and wireless ambient intelligence applications. He has been involved as a project manager for projects in application domains like e-learning, ehealth, intelligent homes, building automation, media and publishing. He is currently the Technical Coordinator of Hydra, a pan-european integrated project in the field of "Internet for things", where a semantic-based middleware for networked embedded devices is developed to allow building of applications for intelligent homes, ehealth and agriculture.


	PROF. DR.-ING JENS SCHUMACHER Prof. Dr.-Ing Jens Schumacher received his Master Science in computer science in 1992 at the University of Bremen. He started as research Engineer at BIBA in 1992 where he was work package leader for several ESPRIT and ACST projects. In 1997 he became Manager of the "Centre of Research for Electronic Commerce in logistics" at the University of Bremen. From 1998 onwards he was Head of Department for "Logistics and Globally Distributed Production" at BIBA. From March 2003 until 2005 he was a research assistant at the University of Bremen. From 2005 he has been appointed to a research professorship at the University of Applied Science Vorarlberg. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Schumacher is currently involved in several EU Projecs and is Dissemination Manager for the IP Project EURIDICE - "European inter-disciplinary research on intelligent cargo for efficient, safe and environment-friendly logitics" (FP7-ICT-2007-216271).


	ALEXANDRU SERBANATI Alexandru Serbanati was born in 1980 in Bucarest, Romania. He completed his Physics studies at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy in 2005 with a thesis held at ISAC - CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate – National Research Centre) that involved the development and evaluation of a morphing-based algorithm for nowcasting in orographically complex environments. Since the beginning of 2006, he joined as researcher the RFID Lab, a research center mainly targeted to the study of the Radio Frequency Identification technology and it’s applications. After initial studies on the security of RFID systems, he participated in the design and development of mobile projects for visually impaired people, most notably as overseer of the SeSaMoNet software development team. Current activities mainly regard the design and development of applications based on Wireless Sensor Networks, with interests also in RTLS, security and mobile.


	JESPER THESTRUP Chairman of the Technical Board - Hydra Project Jesper Thestrup received his Maters Degree qualification from the Technical University of Denmark and has degrees in business administration from the Copenhagen Business School and INSEAD. He is a specialist in ICT health networks, ubiquitous services and ambient intelligence ecosystems. He was a Technical Manager of the eu-DOMAIN project and is the chairman of the Technical Board in the Hydra Project.


	DANIEL THIEMERT IMSS Research Centre, University of Reading, School of Systems Engineering Daniel Thiemert completed his studies in Computer Sciences in 2006 at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Koethen, Germany with a dissertation titled “Implementation and Optimisation of two Strategies for Ensuring the Integrity of Digital Videos of Type MPEG-I/II”. He has a background in IT-Security, particularly in Multimedia Security and middleware technologies for Sensor Networks Integration. Daniels’s technology innovation management experience has included the successful management of several ICT projects. This has encompassed a number of key areas underpinning semantic integration and resolution of context-aware systems and the phenomenological personal-context-aware system as well as models of trust and its transitivity in network-centric systems and services. Before joining the Intelligent Media Systems and Services Research Centre (IMSS) at the University of Reading, School of Systems Engineering in September 2006, Daniel worked at the Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, focusing on the area of digital watermarks for video and audio data. His current research interests involve middleware technologies for sensor networks, security, context awareness, multimedia processing, embedded systems, and ambient assisted living.


	PETER TROXLER Senior Project Manager - Waag Society Peter Troxler (1966) is Senior Project Manager at Waag Society. He is in charge of several GPS- and mobile Internet-based serious gaming projects for educational and recreational applications, in particular MobileMath, Singing City, Learning Game Kit (MLGK), Rituelen (Rituals) and the Digital Dowsing Rod. Further he is running Waag Society's contribution to Creative Commons, and he's co-ordinating Waag's partnership with the Amsterdam Living Lab. Peter has 15 years experience (and counting) as a manager and producer of transdisciplinary projects, events, arts festivals, drama and theatre productions and conferences including and integrating arts, academia, media and public involvement. His first multi-media cross- disciplinary arts experiences date back to the mid 90s with his own theater and performance company zusammenstoss (Lucerne, Switzerland), the network p&s culture net, and urbanNovember (Aberdeen, Scotland) with projects like 'SoundAsArt' and socially engaged 'Oil and the City'. In another life, Peter has worked as a management consultant in the area of strategy development and implementation, community development, and integrated management systems with a variety of customers from industry, non-profit organisations, charities and the public sector. He still maintains his links with the business community through selected consultancy projects. In academia, Peter worked six years as a researcher at ETH Zurich at the interface of industrial psychology, IT and management science; research topics were factory automation, human factors, technology assessment, and the development of integrated management systems; and three years as a research manager at the University of Aberdeen in the area of Knowledge Technology. Peter holds a Dr. sc. techn. in Industrial Management (PhD) and an MSc in Operations Management from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.


	PROF. PASCAL URIEN ENST Pascal Urien is full professor at Telecom ParisTech (ENST). He graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, and received a PHD in computer science. His main research interests include security and smart cards, especially for wireless networks and distributed computing architectures. He holds fourteen patents and about one hundred publications in these domains. He is the father of the internet smart card technology, which won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2000 (Paris) and Most Innovative Product of Year at the Advanced Card Award 2001 (London). He invented the EAP smart card, that won two industrial awards, Best Technological Innovation at cartes'2003 (Paris), and Breakthrough Innovation Award at CardtTech/SecureTech 2004 (Washington DC). In 2006 he won a bronze award at the SecureTheWeb Developer Contest, organized by Gemalto and Microsoft. In June 2007 Pascal was one of the winners of French 9th national contest, for the support of innovative start-ups. Pascal collaborates in several industrial committees like the IETF and multiple French and European research projects.


	ROB VAN KRANENBURG Head of Public Domain - Waag Society Rob van Kranenburg (1964) is Head of Public Domain at Waag Society. He is an innovation and media theorist involved with negotiability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informalin cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy. He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam as programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John hackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a ostgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. For the past three years he has been working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network organization for e-culture, as interim and co-director and programme manager. He taught media theory at Post St Joost (MA Autonomous Art), HKU EMMA (MA Interaction Design) and Medialab Amsterdam (teamcoach). As a freelancer Rob has worked for and with Mediamatic, Waag Society for Old and New Media, TEKS Trondheim, JISC, CTI Patras, Atlantis SA, Open University Netherlands, City of Breda, Institute of Network Cultures, Hobeon, V2, & Technical University Eindhoven, Industrial Design. He is a cofounder of Bricolabs.


	DAVID WHILE Senior Academic, Department of Computing - Birmingham City University David While is a senior academic in the Department of Computing at Birmingham City University. He previously worked in industry as for GEC Telecommunications as a software engineer on real time telecommunications systems. He mainly teaches real time systems and distributed systems. He is also pathway leader for the MSc in Pervasive Computing. His research interests include using smart technology within a domestic environment and mobile devices.


	DR. WEISHAN ZHANG Research Associate Professor, Computer Science Department - University of Aarhus Dr. Weishan Zhang is a Research Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Aarhus. His research is part of the EU HYDRA project. His research interests include intelligent pervasive middleware, software engineering and knowledge engineering with embedded system, mobile computing and software reuse including software architecture and software product line. He was a visiting researcher at the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada from January 2006 to Jan. 2007. He was an Associate Professor at School of Software Engineering, Tongji University from Sept. 2003-2006. From Sept. 2001 to Sept. 2003, he was doing post-doctoral research at the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore.


	SEBASTIAN ZICKAU IMSS Research Centre, University of Reading In 2002 Sebastian Zickau received his Diploma in Computer Science at the Technische Universität Berlin where he worked as a research assistant. He is a specialist in the fields of Smart Cards, Role Based Access Control, secure web applications and computer and network security. In January 2008, he joined the Intelligent Media Systems and Services Research Centre at the University of Reading working on the EU-project ‘Hydra’ project contributing to research on Web Service Security and Context Awareness Frameworks.


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