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Conference Technical Program (pdf)
| February 11 (Monday): Technical program- Keynote and presentations |
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12:50-13:00 Welcome 13:00-14:00 Plenary Session (Keynote) 14:00-14.30 Coffee break |
| 14:30-16:30 Technical Program (5 presentations) |
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1) Enriching Music with Synchronized Lyrics, Images and Colored Lights Gijs Geleijnse, Dragan Sekulovski, Jan Korst, Steffen Pauws, Bram Kater and Fabio Vignoli. |
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2) Inferring User's Context in Ubiquitous Computing Yaser Mowafi and Dongsong Zhang. |
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3) Improving Dialogue Systems in a Home Automation Environment Raquel Justo, Oscar Saz, Victor Guijarrubia, Antonio Miguel, M. Ines Torres and Eduardo Lleida. |
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4) A Formal model to handle the adaptability of Multimodal User Interface nadjet kamel, yamine AIT AMEUR, Sid Ahmed Selouani and habib hamam. |
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5) A vision-based hybrid method for facial expression recognition Xianyi Huang and Yingzi Lin. |
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19:00-20:00 Welcome Reception |
| February 12 (Tuesday): Technical program and dinner |
| 9:00-10:30 Technical Program (3 presentations) |
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1) A Model for Ontology-Based Scene Description for Context-Aware Driver Assistance Systems Simone Fuchs, Stefan Rass, Bernhard Lamprecht and Kyandoghere Kyamakya. |
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2) The Korrontea Data Modeling Emmanuel Bouix, Philippe Roose and Marc Dalmau. |
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3) An MPEG-21-driven Utility-based Multimedia Adaptation Decision Taking Web Service Martin Prangl, Ingo Kofler and Hermann Hellwagner. |
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break |
| 11:00-13:00 Technical Program (4 presentations) |
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1) Deconstructing Ambient Intelligence into Ambient Narratives: The Intelligent Shop Window Mark van Doorn, Evert van Loenen and Arjen de Vries. |
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2) Delivering Interactive Multimedia Services in Dynamic Pervasive Computing Environments Cristian Hesselman, Pablo Cesar, Ishan Vaishnavi, Mathieu Boussard, Ralf Kernchen, Stefan Meissner, Antonietta Spedalieri, Albert Sinfreu and Christian Rack. |
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3) Multi-agent Designs for Ambient Systems Martin Lundell, Dianxiang Xu, Jonathan Pikalek and Kendall Nygard. |
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4) Assisting Elders via Dynamic Multi-tasks Planning - A Markov Decision Processes based Approach Francois Courtemanche, Mehdi Najjar, Blandine Paccoud and Andre Mayers. |
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13:00-14:00 Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 Panel and participant discussion |
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15:00-15:30 Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 Technical Program (3 presentations) |
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1) TaPuMa: Tangible Public Map for Information Acquirement through the Things We Carry Pranav Mistry, Tsuyoshi Kuroki and Chaochi Chang. |
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2) Active Manipulation of Users in Haptic-Enabled Virtual Environments Mehrdad Zadeh, David Wang and Eric Kubica. |
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3) 3D Interaction with Volumetric Medical Data: experiencing the Wiimote Luigi Gallo, Giuseppe De Pietro and Ivana Marra. |
| 19:00-21:00 Banquet dinner |
| February 13 (Wednesday): Technical program and presentations |
| 9:00-10:30 Technical Program (3 presentations) |
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1) Adaptive Data Rate Control for Throughput Improvement and Energy Efficiency in Low Rate WPAN Indong Yeo, Jonghyune Kim and Sunshin An. |
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2) The Development of Wireless Sensor System for Pressure and Temperature Signals Monitoring Essa Jafer and Khalil Arshak. |
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3) Bypass AODV: Improving Performance of Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Ahed Alshanyour and Uthman Baroudi. |
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10:30-11:00 Coffee break |
| 11:00-13:00 Technical Program (4 presentations) |
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1) An Energy Aware and Fault Tolerant Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Azzedine Boukerche and Anahit Martirosyan. |
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2) Cooperative Caching Techniques for Continuous Media in Wireless Home Networks Shahram Ghandeharizadeh and Shahin Shayandeh. |
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3) Context-Aware Content Filtering & Presentation for Pervasive & Mobile Information Systems Kaijian Xu, Manli Zhu and Tao Gu. |
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4) Emergency Response Simulation Using Wireless Sensor Networks Avgoustinos Filippoupolitis, Laurence Hey, Georgios Loukas, Erol Gelenbe and Stelios Timotheou. |
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13:00-14:00 Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 Panel and participant discussion |
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15:00-15:30 Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 Technical Program (3 presentations) |
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1) Provisioning of Multimedia Services over Open NGN Testbed Adel Al-Hezmi, Fabricio Gouveia and Thomas Magedanz. |
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2) Simulating and Implementing Geospatially-based Binding Mechanisms for Mobile Peering Ben Falchuk and David Shallcross. |
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3) A Semiotic Multi-Agent System for Intelligent Building Control Darren Booy, Bing Qiao, Kecheng Liu and Chris Guy. |
NOTE: The three workshops HAS, AMDIT and SOMITAS will run in parallel on February 14, 2008. Please see Workshops program details.
