Pebbles: People and their Current Personal Workplans
Cambridge UK
Dr David
Greaves (leader) Greaves
is working on `code reflection', where controlling entities describe
their proactive behaviour to the environment before being alowed to
join. He is developing a scripting tool chain that includes automated
formal verification for system and user constraints. The current chain
is called Pushlogic.
Prof Jon Crowcroft (advisory)
Mr Tope Omitola
Omitola is using planning tools (currently just a model checker but
later a generic, pluggable planning interface) as a Rule Based Controller.
This can manage a varying population of devices and sensors.
Dr Behzad Bastani
Bastani is exploring UML and IDE representations for UPnP and other reflexive
ubi-comp software architectures.
Mr Atif Alvi is working on a domain checker that ensures all
participating application scripts and devices share a consistent set
of rules and constraints. He is studying dynamic rehydration
of executable scripts and consistency rule in response to changes in a
dynamic worldview that is part of a more-stable ontology. Currently
his application scripts are written in Pushlogic.
Mr Henry Robinson covers global, persistent data storage,
including tuple space primitives. He is looking at access and locking
primitives as well as semantics applicable to mobile devices where
synchronisation between spaces is needed after a re-connect. He has
also written a WSDL to Pebble synthesiser/compiler.
Mr Ioannis Baltopoulos is penciled in to working on
correctness of synthesis of multi-language, multi-component software
bundles: eg, synthesis from BPEL into multiple java, asp and javascript
fragments.
Dr Anil Madhavapeddy - has just completed his PhD in
online and static formal validation of legacy software, particularly
concentrating on network protocol stacks.
Ms Aisha Elsafty and Mr Stephen Kell are in their first year PhD and
are considering further aspects of dynamic systems assembly from (hardware
or software) components.
Ms Myoung Jin Nam - is working on protocol and interface automata synthesis.
Arif Zeeshan is penciled in to work on
memory-efficient run-time systems that can handle XML and declarative
bytecode on embedded processors with limited resources. This work
involves compiling our declarative bytecode to ROM-able machine code
and developing new parser technology that trades as much RAM for ROM
as possible.
Dr Daniel Gordon - a Research Associate, was responsible for
infrastructure. He has
written a pervasive tuple space distributed system and also the first
version of the Pushlogic interpreter. He has constructed a number of
the hardware Pebbels listed on this site. Also a GUI for debugging a
tuple space.
Dr Rob Hague has completed a dissertation on multi-view script
editing for home automation. His views included speech, text and the
Media Cubes.
Cambridge USA
Prof Umar Saif.
Prof Steve Ward - The project originator.
Dr. Christopher J. Terman - An associate director of LCS who has been involved
with the project from the outset..
Hubert Pham: Hubert is an MEng student in our research group, and is the
lead-student writing code for the pebbles system.
Justin Mazzola Paluska. Justin has recently
started thinking about the Planning layer architecture (the Goals
layer), and will be devoting a large chunk of his time to the Planning
system in the coming months.
Jason Waterman - Jason is part of the core oxygen team; he is
responsible for keeping all the oxygen demos and toys working throughout
the year.
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