| Marco Aiello is a professor of Distributed Information Systems in the Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RuG) where he coordinate the Service Oriented Systems group (SOS) and the Distributed Systems and Software Engineering unit. His research interests lie in the fields of Distributed Systems, Service Oriented Computing and Spatial Reasoning. His research focuses on four main areas which are tied by the thread of space meant as spatial distribution of computation, spatial representation, and spatial reasoning. In particular, the fields of his research interests are Service-Oriented Computing, Domotics, Computer Vision, and Spatial Reasoning.
Website: http://web.me.com/aiellom/aiellom/Home.html |  | Elie el Khoury is currently doing his PhD in Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), under the supervision of Prof. Marco Aiello. he is a member of the Service Oriented Systems group. And mainly working on Web services composition and monitoring. he completed five years of undergraduate studies in computer and communication engineering at Notre Dame University (Lebanon). Did his master studies (master research) in computer science at University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France).
Website: http://elie.el-khoury.me |  | Alexander Lazovik finished PhD programme in Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy in 2006, where he was a member of the Distributed Systems and Service-Oriented Computing research program within the Department of Information and Communication Technologies. He received a degree in Applied Mathematics in the Belarusian State University in 2002. His research interests cover the areas of service-oriented and distributed computing, particularly concerning automatic composition using AI planning and constraint propagation algorithms.
Website: http://dit.unitn.it/~lazovik/pmwiki/ |  | Mahir Can Doğanay received his BSc(2006) and MSc(2008) degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Sabanci University, Turkey. As of December 2008, he is a Phd student in Service Oriented Systems Group in University of Groningen under the supervision of Dr. Marco Aiello. His research interests are Service Oriented Computing, Automated Service Composition and Domotics. |
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Sapienza Universita di Roma |
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 | Roberto Baldoni is an expert of pervasive and p2p computing, middleware platforms and information systems infrastructures. He is the founder of MIDdleware LABoratory (MIDLAB) and he has been PI of many national and european research projects. Recently he has been General Chair of DEBS 2008 and PC chair of the track "Reliable and Dependable Systems" of ICDCS 2009. Finally he belongs to the Scientific Committee of Sapienza Innovazione the technology incubator of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where he is director of the Joint-Lab on Security Research.
|  | Massimo Mecella (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering) is an Assistant Professor at SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy, in the Department of Systems and Computer Science and Engineering. His main research topics are Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Middleware and Web service technologies, Business Process Management (PMS) systems and technologies, Business Process modeling, formal approaches to the above cited areas, MANETs, eGovernment, Emergency Management, Domotics, HRI (Human Robot Interaction). He has extensive experience in EU research projects, and act as the Technical Manager of SM4All. |  | Leonardo Querzoni is Assistant Professor at University of Rome “La Sapienzaâ€. He received a Dr. Ing degree in computer engineering with a work on efficient data dissemination though the publish/subscribe communication paradigm. In the recent past he published peer-reviewed papers in various computer-science fields including overlay networks, publish/subscribe systems, wireless and mobile ad-hoc networks. He regularly serves as a reviewer of international conferences and journals of his research areas. Being part of the MIDLAB research group, he is currently involved in several national and international EU-funded projects.
|  | Tiziana Catarci received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rome, where she is currently a Full Professor. She has published over 150 papers and 20 books in a variety of subjects comprising Database Access, Information Visualization, User Interfaces, Digital Libraries, Usability and Accessibility, Data Quality, Cooperative Information Systems, Data Integration, Web Access. |  | Adriano Cerocchi is a Ph.D. student at SAPIENZA University of Rome. His research topics are mainly focused on large scale dynamic systems and domotics. Since February 2009 he has been involved in the SM4All project, where he is responsible for the development of the distributed repository for the context awareness and the eventing infrastructure, together with Leonardo Querzoni and Roberto Baldoni. Out from SM4All he is investigating about novel approach for large scale aggregation. He took his Master Degree in Computer and System Sciences at SAPIENZA University of Rome, in November 2009.
Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~cerocchi |  | Riccardo De Masellis is a Ph.D. student at SAPIENZA University of Rome, where he is currently a member of the "Data Management and Service-Oriented Computing" group. His main research interests concern Knowledge Representation & Reasoning as well as Automated Service Composition, that was the topic of his theoretical Master Thesis in Computer Science.
Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~demasellis |  | Claudio Di Ciccio is a Ph.D. student at SAPIENZA University of Rome, under the supervision of Prof. Tiziana Catarci and Massimo Mecella. He received there a Master Degree in Computer Science with an eGovernment work, based on a distributed platform, wrapping legacy systems, and offering services for citizens through an accessible web interface. His main interests are Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), Web Service technologies, User Interfaces, Usability and Accessibility, Services Composition.
Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~cdc |  | Fabio Patrizi is a research fellow at DIS - SAPIENZA University of Rome, where he earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, in September 2009, defending the thesis "Simulation-based Techniques for Automated Service Composition". Besides Service Oriented Computing, his interests include Constraint Programming, Formal Verification & Synthesis, Knowledge Representation, and Automated Reasoning. In 2008, he has been a visiting scholar of the DB group at UCSD.
Website: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~patrizi |
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 | Francisco Milagro Lardies is an Engineer in the Future Home Department of Telefonica 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.
|  | Pablo Antolin Rafael is a R&D Engineer in the Future Home Department of Telefonica I+D (TID). He studied Computer Science at the University of Valladolid, Spain. As an expert in SOA and web development , he is being involved in many other European projects from different programs, among them 6th FP (HYDRA, eu-DOMAIN, AMI4SME, AMIGO, BIOSEC, NM2, INTELLIDRUG), eContent (MOBIGUIDING), SIAP (POESIA) and ETEN (RePUBLIC). He will be the manager of the TID team in SM4ALL, where we will lead WP5 (Pervasive layer) and WP8 (Dissemination & Exploitation).
|  | Laura Albornos holds a Computer Science Degree from University of Valladolid. She has collaborated on research projects of the University. She has been involved in many European research projects from different programmes in Telefonica I+D Digital Home Services area. |
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Vienna University of Technology |
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 | Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Internet Technologies heading the Distributed Systems Group, Institute of Information Systems, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he is director of the Vita Lab. He is also Honorary Professor of Information Systems at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands. He is Chair of the IFIP Working Group 6.4 on Internet Applications Engineering and a founding member of the Scientific Academy of Service Technology.
|  | Fei LI is currently working as a project assistant at the Vienna University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. diploma in September 2008 at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China. His research interests are Service Oriented Architecture and Context aware systems. |  | Hong-Linh Truong currently is a senior research scientist at Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology. His main research interest focuses on obtaining an understanding of the behaviour of distributed and parallel applications and systems through monitoring and analysis. His research has been applied to performance monitoring and analysis techniques and tools, P2P and Grid computing, Internet technologies, middleware, collaborative computing, workflow systems, e-science, and autonomic computing. |
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 | Fabio Aloise received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University "Unicala" of Calabria, Italy. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He is involved in different national and european projects with the Neuroelectrical Imaging and Brain Computer Interface Laboratory at Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS (Rome). His principal field of research is non-invasive brain computer Interface (BCI). Specifically, his research interests are in the design and implementation of aid systems for communicating with and controlling domotic environments via BCI.
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Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) |
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 | Rassul AYANI is Professor of Computer Science at the school of Information and Communication Technology (ICT),Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
He has been working on parallel and distributed systems for the past twenty years. His current research interests are in distributed systems, performance analysis of computer and communication systems, distributed simulation and composability of simulation models.
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Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) |
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homes and electrophysiology |  | Clemens Holzner, g.tec - works on BCI technology, Virtual Reality smart
homes and electrophysiology |
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