Serenoa Workshop

The first Serenoa workshop will be held jointly with the Ambient Intelligence conference, in Pisa (Italy), on November, 13th, 2012.

Given the importance of performing context-aware adaptation in a scenario of ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile computing; this workshop aims at reviewing the state-of-the-art in this domain and promoting the discussion among the interested community.

Besides, we intend to discuss positive and negative experiences, related works, and to highlight criteria and requirements that may drive context-aware adaptation in this scenario.

The workshop is organized by Francisco Javier Caminero Gil (Serenoa project coordinator), Fabio Paterno (CNR – ISTI) and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCL).

This workshop will last half a day, and participants are welcome from any background or discipline that is concerned with the main topic (Context-aware Adaptation).

For further information please refer to the webpage: www.serenoa-fp7.eu/casfe2012

Serenoa Meetings

The second review meeting of Serenoa was held in UCL Woluwe (Brussels – Belgium) yesterday. We are glad to inform that all the deliverables for month 18 were successfully approved, no changes were requested, and the demonstration presented was also considered successful by the reviewers and project officer.

We thank all the members of the project for the collaboration and the work done, and the reviewers for the valuable advices provided. The feedback will be carefully considered for our next phases.

The next face-to-face meeting of Serenoa is confirmed for June 12th and 13th and it will be held in Pisa in CNR/ISTI venues. This meeting is co-located with the next face-to-face meeting of the W3C MBUI Working Group.

Consortium and Review Meetings

The next consortium and review meetings of Serenoa will take place the next week, on 16th and 17th April. In UCL Woluwe (Brussels), from 9a.m. to 6p.m., UCL will host both meetings. 15 members of the project already confirmed their participation. There, they will discuss the last achievements, synchronize their results and present to the reviewers the work done during the last period. The feedback provided and the discussions will be then carefully considered in the following phases of the project to assure further improvements.

After Brussels, the following consortium meeting will take place in Pisa (Italy) at CNR – ISTI venues in June.

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Serenoa at LREC 2012

The paper entitled ‘The SERENOA Project: Multidimensional Context-Aware Adaptation of Service Front-Ends’ submitted to the LREC Conference 2012, was approved and it will be presented by Javier Caminero. This paper is authored by Javier Caminero, Mari Carmen Rodríguez, Jean Vanderdonckt, Fabio Paternò, Joerg Rett, Dave Raggett, Jean-Loup Comeliau and Ignacio Marín.

The LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation) Conference will be held in Istanbul (Turkey) from 21st to 27th May. The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. Further information can be retrieved at LREC website.

The paper describes Serenoa project motivates the work on multi-dimensional context-aware adaptation, presents the methodologies proposed by the project, i.e. CADS, CARF, CARFO, describes the Serenoa laguages (ASFE-DL and AA-DL), defines the architecture of the project and its modules. Besides this, some future venues and application scenarios are presented.


Environment-aware Advertisements

Due to its significant requirements, the environment is often one underexplored dimension of context in context-aware adaptive applications. Besides requiring a constant sensing of dynamic variables, environment-aware adaptation also requires significant processing capabilities which may cause, among other problems, performance issues. Although, sometimes neglected, the environmental information has a large application for context-aware adaptation.

Aware of such importance, Google requested and got last week, on 20th March, a patent for environment-aware adaptation, named “advertising based on environmental conditions”. Such patent comprises all advertising contents that are created based on environmental information.

In summary, this patent is defined as follows:

Information about an environmental condition of a remote device is received, the environmental condition being determined based on a signal output from a sensor of the remote device or a sensor coupled to the remote device. An advertisement is identified based on the environmental condition, and the advertisement is provided to the remote device.

The complete specification of this patent can be retrieved in its website.