FP7 SERENOA Project

A graphical notation for modelling software development methodologies

vivian.motti — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:38:24 +0000

We are glad to inform that the paper entitled “Evaluating a graphical notation for modelling software development methodologies” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Visual Languages & Computing (Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 195-212). In this work the authors: Kenia Sousa, Jean Vanderdonckt, Brian Henderson-Sellers and Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, evaluated a graphical notation for modelling software development methodologies. As such, they demonstrate the use of graphical aspects for sharing knowledge among stakeholders responsible for documenting information, understanding and re-using it. The paper emphasizes the importance of having a common graphical notation for creating, using and disseminating information for larger audiences.

By using a cognitive dimensions framework, they performed a standard evaluation of elements and diagrams of a notation proposed to support the ISO/IEC 24744 methodology metamodel standard, considering the trade-offs across dimensions. The main contributions of this work consist in: improving the enactment diagram to facilitate the organization of processes according to a visual timeline, improving action diagrams by adding further details, specifying goals’ types, improving the legibility of the diagrams.

More detailed information about the paper can be retrieved online at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X12000237

Serenoa Workshop

vivian.motti — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:54:00 +0000

The first Serenoa workshop will be held jointly with the Ambient Intelligence conference, in Pisa (Italy), on November, 13th, 2012.

Given the importance of performing context-aware adaptation in a scenario of ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing; this workshop aims at reviewing the state-of-the-art in this domain and promoting the discussion among the interested community.

Besides, we intend to discuss positive and negative experiences, related works, and to highlight criteria and requirements that may drive context-aware adaptation in this scenario.

The workshop is organized by Francisco Javier Caminero Gil (Serenoa project coordinator), Fabio Paterno (CNR – ISTI) and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCL).

This workshop will last half a day, and participants are welcome from any background or discipline that is concerned with the main topic (Context-aware Adaptation).

For further information please refer to the webpage:www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2012

Serenoa Meetings

vivian.motti — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:08:27 +0000

The second review meeting of Serenoa was held in UCL Woluwe (Brussels – Belgium) yesterday. We are glad to inform that all the deliverables for month 18 were successfully approved, no changes were requested, and the demonstration presented was also considered successful for the reviewers and project officer.

We thank all the members of the project for the collaboration and the work done, and the reviewers for the valuable advices provided. The feedback will be carefully considered for our next phases.

The next face-to-face meeting of Serenoa is confirmed for June 12th and 13th and it will be held in Pisa in CNR/ISTI venues. This meeting is co-located with the next face-to-face meeting of the W3C MBUI Working Group.

Consortium and Review Meetings

vivian.motti — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:01:46 +0000

The next consortium and review meetings of Serenoa will take place the next week, on 16th and 17th April. In UCL Woluwe (Brussels), from 9a.m. to 6p.m., UCL will host both meetings. 15 members of the project already confirmed their participation. There, they will discuss the last achievements, synchronize their results and present to the reviewers the work done during the last period. The feedback provided and the discussions will be then carefully considered in the following phases of the project to assure further improvements.

After Brussels, the following consortium meeting will take place in Pisa (Italy) at CNR – ISTI venues in June.

Serenoa at LREC 2012

vivian.motti — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:16:01 +0000

The paper entitled ‘The SERENOA Project: Multidimensional Context-Aware Adaptation of Service Front-Ends’ submitted to the LREC Conference 2012, was approved and it will be presented by Javier Caminero. This paper is authored by Javier Caminero, Mari Carmen Rodríguez, Jean Vanderdonckt, Fabio Paternò, Joerg Rett, Dave Raggett, Jean-Loup Comeliau and Ignacio Marín.

The LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation) Conference will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from 21st to 27th May. The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. Further information can be retrieved at LREC website.

The paper describes Serenoa project motivates the work on multi-dimensional context-aware adaptation, presents the methodologies proposed by the project, i.e. CADS, CARF, CARFO, describes the Serenoa laguages (ASFE-DL and AA-DL), defines the architecture of the project and its modules. Besides this, some future venues and application scenarios are presented.

Environment-aware Advertisements

vivian.motti — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:47:06 +0000

Due to its significant requirements, the environment is often one underexplored dimension of context in context-aware adaptive applications. Besides requiring a constant sensing of dynamic variables, environment-aware adaptation also requires significant processing capabilities which may cause, among other problems, performance issues. Although, sometimes neglected, the environmental information has a large application for context-aware adaptation.

Aware of such importance, Google requested and got last week, on 20th March, a patent for environment-aware adaptation, named “advertising based on environmental conditions”. Such patent comprises all advertising contents that are created based on environmental information.

In summary, this patent is defined as follows:

Information about an environmental condition of a remote device is received, the environmental condition being determined based on a signal output from a sensor of the remote device or a sensor coupled to the remote device. An advertisement is identified based on the environmental condition, and the advertisement is provided to the remote device.

The complete specification of this patent can be retrieved in its website.

Serenoa Newsletter #3

vivian.motti — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:35:53 +0000

The third newsletter of the Serenoa project has just been published.

In general, Serenoa’s newsletters report recent activities of the project, its the latest results, announcements about scientific publications, and descriptions about the work done. Furthermore, related events are announced, and the details about our achievements within each work package are described too.

At this third newsletter you will find further information specially concerning: the Serenoa roadmap, its requirements, languages (ASFE-DL and AAL-DL), theoretical models (CADS and CARF), ontology (CARFO), the Adaptation Engine, the demonstrator, and also about the Quill (the Serenoa’s authoring environment). The newsletter is concluded with the presentation of a brief summary about the first face-to-face meeting of the W3C Model-based UI Working Group.

Our third newsletter is available online at Serenoa’s website. Feel free to share it with any person interested in the domain of context-aware adaptation.

International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence 2012

vivian.motti — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:24:56 +0000

Call for Participation

The AmI-12 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by invisible technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences. Ambient intelligence combines concepts of ubiquitous technology, intelligent systems and advanced user interfaces putting the humans in the center of technological developments.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to Ambient Intelligence. Contributions are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

objects, devices and environments that embody ambient intelligence
context models and context factors
sensing and reasoning technology
natural and multimodal interaction styles and user interfaces
advanced interface artifacts
end User Development for Ubiquitous Environments
adaptation in Ambient Intelligence
multi-device Interaction
security, privacy and trust
ambient intelligence services
business model and business cases
knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence
autonomic systems, multi-agent architectures and systems
adaptive architectures, symbiotic systems
industrial and commercial applications of ambient intelligence
configuration and control of ambient environments by end-users
user experience and user experience factors (e.g., acceptance)
ambient intelligence for special target groups
ambient intelligence applications (e.g., assisted living, future shopping)
artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
large scale ambient contexts (e.g., intelligent buildings, urban public spaces, smart cities)
social media applications in ambient environments
societal implications of ambient intelligence
distributed software, systems, middleware and frameworks
reflections on the current state and future of ambient intelligence
ambient games and game scenarios
artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
deployments and field tests of ambient intelligence technology

All submissions will be peer reviewed. The main proceedings will appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically via the conference website: http://www.ami-12.org.

Serenoa at Ohloh

vivian.motti — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:42:14 +0000

Serenoa project is now registered at Ohloh, a social community online to manage open source coding.

Ohloh is a software directory for generation of community-driven content. Source code crawlers permit the dynamic monitoring of the development activities. Ohloh will be used from now on as a functional code repository for the Serenoa project. It also permits to crawl the svn, to generate code metrics, and to execute collaborative commits.

Any developer can use Ohloh’s directory to look for projects and softwares, and also to look for developers who are interested in collaborating with open source projects. Ohloh permits the analysis of review reports, the comparison of different projects and languages, and the analysis of contributions per developer.

The most popular projects of Ohloh include: Mozilla Firefox, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP, Linux Kernel and Firebug. The project of Mozilla Firefox, for instance, counts today with 10813 users.

Ohloh’s most active projects include: Gentoo Linux, OpenX, Arch Linux Packages, GNOME, Chromium (Google Chrome), Linux Kernel and Boot to Gecko. The Gentoo Linux project, for instance, has today 7687 comits.

You can find further information about Ohloh’s projects at: https://www.ohloh.net/

MBUI Working Group Meeting

vivian.motti — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:15:18 +0000

The first face to face meeting of the MBUI Working Group was held in DFKI venues from 9 to 10 February in Kaiserslautern (Germany). More than 20 participants were present there to discuss the main points of model based development of User Interface description languages. The benefits and shortcomings of this approach were highlighted, and the main concepts of the abstract levels (task and domain, and abstract UI) were discussed.

The working group received 8 submissions of proposals for UIDLs, these proposals will be continuously analysed and discussed until the achievement of a recommendation candidate by 30 August 2013.

Participants visiting Living Lab – Smart Factory at DFKI, Kaiserslautern (Germany).

More face to face meetings and weekly calls are planned to support the work of the members. Further information about the group are available online at: http://www.w3.org/2011/01/mbui-wg-charter

Gerrit Meixner is the initial chair of the group, and Dave Raggett is the contact person.