Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing
June 1-2, 2006 - Lancaster, UK

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Programme

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Thursday June 1, 2006
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome
9:00 - 9:30
Keynote
Lessons in Deploying Public Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Experiences from the e-Campus Display Deployments
Nigel Davies (Lancaster University)
9:30 - 10:25
Session 1 (3 talks + 10min panel discussion)
Engineering for real – The SECOAS project (15min)
I. W. Marshall, A. E. Gonzalez, I. D. Henning, N. Boyd, C. M. Roadknight, J. Tateson, L. Sacks
Analysing Infrastructure and Emergent System Character for Ubiquitous Computing Software Engineering (15min)
Martin Randles, A. Taleb-Bendiab
Software Considerations for Automotive Pervasive Systems (15min)
Ross Shannon, Aaron Quigley, Paddy Nixon
10:25 - 11:00
Coffee / Tea
11:00 - 12:30
Session 2: Programming (4 talks + 10min panel discussion)
Ambient-Oriented Programming: Language Support to Program the Disappearing Computer (25min)
Jessie Dedecker, Tom Van Cutsem, Stijn Mostinckx, Wolfgang De Meuter, Theo D’Hondt
A Top-Down Approach to Writing Software for Networked Ubiquitous Systems (15min)
Urs Bischoff
Context-Aware Error Recovery in Mobile Software Engineering (25min)
Nelio Cacho, Sand Correa, Alessandro Garcia, Renato Cerqueira, Thais Batista
Towards Effective Exception Handling Engineering in Ubiquitous Mobile Software Systems (15min)
Nelio Cacho, Alessandro Garcia, Alexander Romanovsky, Alexei Iliasov
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Session 3: Formal Methods (4 talks + 10min panel discussion)
Towards Rigorous Engineering of Resilient Ubiquitous Systems (25min)
Alexander Romanovsky, Kaisa Sere, Elena Troubitsyna
Controlling Feature Interactions In Ubiquitous Computing Environments (15min)
Tope Omitola
Dependability Challenge in Ubiquitous Computing (25min)
Kaisa Sere, Lu Yan, Mats Neovius
Concurrency on and off the sensor network node (15min)
Matthew C. Jadud, Christian L. Jacobsen, Damian J. Dimmich
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee / Tea
15:30 - 17:00
Session 4: Model-based Approaches (4 talks + 10min panel discussion)
The Self-Adaptation Problem in Software Specifications (25min)
Klaus Schmid
Adapting Model-Driven Architecture to Ubiquitous Computing (15min)
Julien Pauty, Stefan Van Baelen, Yolande Berbers
Efficient Modelling of Highly Adaptive UbiComp Applications (15min)
Andreas Petter, Alexander Behring, Joachim Steinmetz
Model driven design of ubiquitous interactive applications (25min)
Jan Van den Bergh and Karin Coninx
   
18:00 - 20:00
Reception / Demos / Dinner (Infolab21)

 

 
Friday June 2, 2006
9:00 - 9:55
Session 5: Engineering for Humans I (3 talks + 10min panel discussion)
Surveying the Ubicomp Design Space: hill-climbing, fields of dreams, and elephants’ graveyards (15min)
Michael B Twidale
Connecting rigorous system analysis to experience centred design in ambient and mobile systems (15min)
M. D. Harrison and C. Kray
Addressing Challenges of Stakeholder Conflict in the Development of Homecare Systems (15min)
Marilyn Rose McGee & Phil Gray
9:55 - 10:30
Keynote
Cityware: The City as System
Tim Kindberg (HP Labs)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee / Tea
11:00 - 12:30
Session 6: Engineering for Humans II (4 talks + 10min panel discussion)
‘Palpability’ as an Architectural Quality (25min)
Klaus Marius Hansen
Human-Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (15min)
David Benyon
User Centered Modeling for Context-Aware Systems (15min)
Tobias Klug
Task-Based Development of User Interfaces for Ambient Intelligent Environment (25min)
Tim Clerckx and Karin Coninx
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Session 7: Platforms (3 talks + 10min panel discussion)
Domino: Trust Me I’m An Expert (15min)
Malcolm Hall, Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers
Ubiquitous Computing: Adaptability Requirements Supported by Middleware Platforms (15min)
Nelly Bencomo, Pete Sawyer, Paul Grace, and Gordon Blair
wasp: A Platform for Prototyping Ubiquitous Computing Devices (15min)
Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Simon Han
14:30 - 15:00
Closing