Program

Start End Tuesday, April 1, 2008
8h15 8h30 Opening workshop
8h30 10h30 Invited talks (Session chair: Joerg Kaiser)
Invited talk - Vector-Field Consistency: Middleware for Ad-hoc Gaming and Beyond; Awarded best paper Middleware 2007 (Luis Veiga, Technical University of Lisbon)
Invited talk - Reflections on Developing Adaptive Systems Software (Paul Grace, Lancaster University, UK)
10h30 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 12h30 Session 1: Research paper presentations (Session chair: Gordon Blair)
30' When Cars Start Gossiping (Paolo Costa, Daniela Gavidia, Boris Koldehofe, Hugo Miranda, Mirco Musolesi, Oriana Riva)
30' An End-to-End routing protocol for Peer-to-Peer communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (Ricardo Simón Carbajo, Meriel Huggard, Ciarán Mc Goldrick)
30' Decentralised Dynamic Code Management for OSGi (Holger Schmidt, Jon H. Yip, Franz J. Hauck, Rüdiger Kapitza)
12h30 14h00 Lunch
14h00 14h45 Session 2: Research topic paper presentations (Session chair: Jari Porras)
15' Policy-based management of middleware for distributed sensor applications (Nelson Matthys, Sam Michiels, Wouter Joosen, Pierre Verbaeten)
15' Tailoring a broadcast algorithm to particular network conditions (Carl Ellis, Hugo Miranda, Francois Taiani)
15' Q&A
14h45 15h15 Coffee break
15h15 17h15 Session 3: Demo and poster presentations
Demo - Using Non-Java OSGi Services for Mobile Applications (Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, Gustavo Alonso)
Demo - A Context-aware Instant Messenger Based On A Novel Context-aware Communication Paradigm (Lars Geiger, Frank Dürr, Kurt Rothermel)
Demo - dEVOLVe: Middleware Support for Application Deployment and Maintenance in Distributed EVOLVing Environments (Bart Elen, Sam Michiels, Pierre Verbaeten, Wouter Joosen)
Demo - The POPEYE project (Marco Boero, Softeco Sismat, Nicolas Berthet)
17h15 17h30 Closing workshop
17h30 19h30 Meeting MiNEMA steering committee