IEEE article

A first draft of the IEE article can be found here.

I also finished the first chapter of my thesistext, which can be found here. This file will be updated when new chapters are added.

Second version of second presentation

In this draft, I refer more to the context-awareness of the application: presentation.pdf

First version of second presentation

The 17th of march, I have to do a second presentation about a topic related to my thesis. For that I chose “privacy and anonymity in ubiquitous systems”.

A first draft of this presentation (in .pdf  form) can be found here: presentation2_v1.

Popular article, reworked version

I reworked the previous version of my popular article, to expand the part about how I would tacle the privacy problem, and to include a part about “related work”.
This new version can be found here.

Thesis follow-up december

For my thesis follow-up of december, I had to make a detailed planning of my work, for the next 6 to 7 months. This planning can be found here for reference.

Intermediate thesispresentation

I did an intermediate thesispresentation this week, the pdf files of which can be found here.

During this presentation, I showed screen prints of my first application. What this application does is explained in the presentation. The .jar files to run the application can be found here:

• the application itself (needs to run to have a GUI);
• the “person” plugin;
• the location plugin;
• the reasoner;
• version 5.0 of the MUSIC context middleware;

To run the application, install each of these .jar files in equinox, and start them (if you want to see the plugins appear in the GUI of the application, start the application first, but the other way around works too).

If there are any questions, feel free to leave a comment or send me a mail.

Thesis follow-ups october and november

To be able to go back to my thesis follow-ups (to see whether I’m still on schedule), I will post them here from now:

• Thesis follow-up for october 2009;
• Thesis follow-up for november 2009.

Popular article in the making

The new version of my popular article (now entitled “Het leven delen op een need-to-know basis”) can be found here.

At the time of this post, it is not completely finished yet. I will update the file while I continue writing, so the link will end up pointing to the finished article.

summary of popular article

Based on the subjects that I want to write about in my popular article, I made a summary of my popular article to be sent in with my november thesis follow-up:

“Ubiquitous systemen, waaronder context-aware systemen, worden alsmaar meer wijdverspreid. Dit soort systemen die op de hoogte zijn van hun omgeving moeten efficiënt werken, zonder daarbij de batterij van de gebruikte apparaten “dood” te bloeden. Daarom wordt middleware zoals MUSIC gebruikt bij het ontwikkelen van context-aware applicaties.
Bij het gebruik van context-aware systemen ontstaan wel een aantal security en privacy problemen, aangezien heel veel informatie gedeeld kan worden met de omgeving. Dit kan voor Big Brother situaties zorgen wanneer de omgeving altijd op de hoogte is van waar de gebruiker zich bevindt. Of voor situaties waarin mensen dingen over u te weten komen, die eigenlijk privé zijn en dus niet met hen gedeeld mochten worden. Het is dus belangrijk dat informatie dus enkel op een “need to know” basis wordt gecommuniceerd. In mijn thesis zal ik dus systemen zoeken om dit te bekomen. Onder anderen zal gebruikt gemaakt worden van Quality of Context, machine learning om sociale relaties en regels te beschrijven, en certificaten.”

Popular article, take 2

The first draft of my popular article ended up not being “scientific” enough. So I decided to start anew, making sure I knew which aspects of my thesis should be mentioned in the article. In the new version, I will try to describe the following points:

• Short introduction about Ubiquitous systems, and specifically Context Aware systems;
• Explanation of MUSIC;
• Example of why one would only want to share their life on a “need to know” basis;
• Based on the above example, a description of the security/privacy problems that can arise in context aware systems;
• Possible solutions to solve these security/privcacy problems, that I will try to use in my implementation;
• Conclusion, recapitulation of the paper.

[I have to give a short summary of this article in my november thesis follow-up, so I will soon post it here]