SCS 2010 (EX SOPDS)

I am co-organizing a track on Self-Organization Complex Systems at the SAC 2010 Conference.

2010 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING Special Track on Self-Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems. Sierre, Switzerland, March 21–26, 2010

http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/scs2010/

SOPDS 2009

I am co-organizing a track on Self-Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems at the SAC 2009 Conference.

2009 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING Special Track on Self-Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems. Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. March 8-12, 2009.

http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/sopds2009/

Upcoming Talks....

Perada Summer School, 7-13 September 2008 , Rimini (Italy). I will give a talk on Spatial Programming for Pervasive Computing

Bertinoro International Summer School of Natural Computation, 20-27 September 2008, Bertinoro (Italy). I will give a talk on Bio-inspired and spatial abstractions for pervasive computing

IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, 20-24 October 2008, Venice (Italy). I will give a tutorial on Spatial Approaches to Pervasive Computing

How to run Nokia SDK S60 in Eclipse - EclipseMe

We had some difficulties running Nokia SDK S60 applications under EclipseMe. Basically, there are two ways of running Midlets in EclipseMe:

• Directly from the JAR, specifying the main class (Midlet option in EclipseMe)
• Referencing a JAD file, that links to the JAR

Both these two options seem to have bugs:

• Running from the JAR, Nokia SDK complains about a mismatch in the JAR size dimension
• Running form the JAD, NOkia SDK complains about a file not found exception for the JAD

We found a workaround for the latter (JAD) approach.

1. Create the package
2. Modify the JAD file under the 'deplyed' folder and add your midlet in the 'midlet' tab
3. Select the JAD file under the 'deployed' folder
4. Remove the 'file:/' prefix in the JAD URL
5. EclipseMe at this point blocks the run button, apply the change anyway and close.
6. Run the application from the main control panel
   

At this point the application runs without problems. The only glitch is that S60 Emulator is VERY slow. You can consider using the S40 Emulator which is much faster.

SOPDS 2008

I am co-organizing a track on Self-Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems at the SAC 2008 Conference.

2008 ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
Special Track on Self-Organization in Pervasive Distributed Systems
March 16-20, 2008.
Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/sopds2008/index.html

Geospatialweb book

The book Geospatialweb containing a chapter from our research group will be out on 17th of May. Get some information from http://www.geospatialweb.com/

Google Bombing WiMax

La fortissima attesa per il WiMax, tecnologia wireless che molto potrebbe fare per portare la banda larga in quell'Italia che la sogna da anni, potrebbe essere tradita dal modo in cui il Governo intende gestire le frequenze necessarie.
Le frequenze del WiMax saranno assegnate tramite un'asta pubblica che le consegneranno nelle mani dei soliti grandi operatori, togliendo al WiMax quelle potenzialità di pervasività che potrebbero aggredire al cuore il divide digitale italiano. Il costo delle licenze, poi, si ripercuoterebbe sui costi finali del WiMax per l'utente, esattamente come avvenuto con UMTS, tecnologia promettente che tutt'oggi, ad anni dalla sua introduzione, rimane frequentata da una piccola percentuale dell'utenza, quella che se la può permettere.

Review to our book

Arturo Ortiz-Tapia has recently published a nice review on our book Field-based Coordination for Pervasive Multiagent Sysytems.
You can access the review at:

http://polaris.ing.unimo.it/didattica/curriculum/marco/bookreview.pdf