The third newsletter of the Serenoa project has just been published.

In general, Serenoa’s newsletters report recent activities of the project, its the latest results, announcements about scientific publications, and descriptions about the work done. Furthermore, related events are announced, and the details about our achievements within each work package are described too.

At this third newsletter you will find further information specially concerning: the Serenoa roadmap, its requirements, languages (ASFE-DL and AAL-DL), theoretical models (CADS and CARF), ontology (CARFO), the Adaptation Engine, the demonstrator, and also about the Quill (the Serenoa’s authoring environment). The newsletter is concluded with the presentation of a brief summary about the first face-to-face meeting of the W3C Model-based UI Working Group.

Our third newsletter is available online at Serenoa’s website. Feel free to share it with any person interested in the domain of context-aware adaptation.

Call for Participation

The AmI-12 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry and academia working in the field of technologies and applications of Ambient Intelligence. Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by invisible technological means, sensitive and responsive to people and their behaviors, deliver advanced functions, services and experiences. Ambient intelligence combines concepts of ubiquitous technology, intelligent systems and advanced user interfaces putting the humans in the center of technological developments.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work in all areas related to Ambient Intelligence. Contributions are solicited from, but not limited to the following topics:

• objects, devices and environments that embody ambient intelligence
• context models and context factors
• sensing and reasoning technology
• natural and multimodal interaction styles and user interfaces
• advanced interface artifacts
• end User Development for Ubiquitous Environments
• adaptation in Ambient Intelligence
• multi-device Interaction
• security, privacy and trust
• ambient intelligence services
• business model and business cases
• knowledge-based systems, computational intelligence
• autonomic systems, multi-agent architectures and systems
• adaptive architectures, symbiotic systems
• industrial and commercial applications of ambient intelligence
• configuration and control of ambient environments by end-users
• user experience and user experience factors (e.g., acceptance)
• ambient intelligence for special target groups
• ambient intelligence applications (e.g., assisted living, future shopping)
• artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
• large scale ambient contexts (e.g., intelligent buildings, urban public spaces, smart cities)
• social media applications in ambient environments
• societal implications of ambient intelligence
• distributed software, systems, middleware and frameworks
• reflections on the current state and future of ambient intelligence
• ambient games and game scenarios
• artifacts in ambient intelligence environments (e.g., robots)
• deployments and field tests of ambient intelligence technology

All submissions will be peer reviewed. The main proceedings will appear in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically via the conference website: http://www.ami-12.org.

Serenoa project is now registered at Ohloh, a social community online to manage open source coding.

Ohloh is a software directory for generation of community-driven content. Source code crawlers permit the dynamic monitoring of the development activities. Ohloh will be used from now on as a functional code repository for the Serenoa project. It also permits to crawl the svn, to generate code metrics, and to execute collaborative commits.

Any developer can use Ohloh’s directory to look for projects and softwares, and also to look for developers who are interested in collaborating with open source projects. Ohloh permits the analysis of review reports, the comparison of different projects and languages, and the analysis of contributions per developer.

The most popular projects of Ohloh include: Mozilla Firefox, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP, Linux Kernel and Firebug. The project of Mozilla Firefox, for instance, counts today with 10813 users.

Ohloh’s most active projects include: Gentoo Linux, OpenX, Arch Linux Packages, GNOME, Chromium (Google Chrome), Linux Kernel and Boot to Gecko. The Gentoo Linux project, for instance, has today 7687 comits.

You can find further information about Ohloh’s projects at: https://www.ohloh.net/

The first face to face meeting of the MBUI Working Group was held in DFKI venues from 9 to 10 February in Kaiserslautern (Germany). More than 20 participants were present there to discuss the main points of model based development of User Interface description languages. The benefits and shortcomings of this approach were highlighted, and the main concepts of the abstract levels (task and domain, and abstract UI) were discussed.

The working group received 8 submissions of proposals for UIDLs, these proposals will be continuously analysed and discussed until the achievement of a recommendation candidate by 30 August 2013.

Participants visiting Living Lab – Smart Factory at DFKI, Kaiserslautern (Germany).

More face to face meetings and weekly calls are planned to support the work of the members. Further information about the group are available online at: http://www.w3.org/2011/01/mbui-wg-charter

Gerrit Meixner is the initial chair of the group, and Dave Raggett is the contact person.

Serenoa M18 review will be held in Brussels on April 17th. The venue will be at UCL facilities in Brussels (same place than M12 review meeting).
It is a convenient place for the Project Officer and the reviewers and also for some partners.
The previous day (April 16th), Serenoa Consortium will meet to prepare the review.