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Reasoning about context in pervasive computing systems
Lecturer: Professor Arkady Zaslavsky, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009
Time: 14:15 - 15:15
Room: IT116
Abstract
The focus of this presentation is on context awareness in pervasive computing. Reasoning about context, context validation and formalization will be presented. Context Spaces theory will be introduced and a number of projects using this theory will be presented.
Bio
Arkady Zaslavsky is a Chaired Professor at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. He is also an Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. He received MSc in Applied Mathematics majoring in Computer Science from Tbilisi State University (Georgia, USSR) in 1976 and PhD in Computer Science from the Moscow Institute for Control Sciences (IPU-IAT), USSR Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Arkady Zaslavsky has published more than 200 research publications throughout his professional career. He organised and chaired many workshops and conferences in mobile computing area, including "Mobility in Databases and Distributed Systems", Mobile & Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM2008), and International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM2003. He is an editorial board member for Elsevier journals "Computer Communications". He is a "Distributed databases" area editor for IEEE Computing-Online. His research interests include mobile and pervasive computing; distributed and mobile agents and objects; wireless networks; distributed computing and database systems; distributed object technology and mobile commerce.
Arkady Zaslavsky has been awarded and involved in many research grants and projects including DSTC's "M3: Enterprise Architecture for Mobile Computation", "Context-rich mobile agent technology to support information needs of financial institutions", "Adaptive Distributed Information Services", "Mobile City" and others.
He is a member of ACM,IEEE Computer and Communications Societies.
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