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INFORMATION SYSTEM UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING

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University of Applied Sciences of Fribourg,

SwitzerlandProf. Prof. Omar ABOU Omar ABOU

KHALEDKHALED

Prof.Prof. Houda CHABBI Houda CHABBI

Mobile Information Systems Laboratory MISLwww.eif.ch/misl

Ecole d’Ingénieurs et d’Architectes de Fribourg - EIA-FRwww.eif.ch

Prof. Prof. Pierre KUONEN Pierre KUONEN

Prof.Prof. Jean-Frédéric Jean-Frédéric WAGENWAGEN




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What an « HES » is ??• HES = Haute Ecole Spécialisée

–English translation: University of Applied Sciences

• Provide university degrees–Practice oriented (Bachelor of Engineering + dipl. work)

–Master degree: not yet

• Domains–Technique–Management –Art–…

• Deeply anchored in the Swiss economic tissue –Spread over Switzerland in all major cities




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The Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland

• A national network !

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FHNW

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HES-SO

Western Switzerland




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• HES-SO•6 counties

•7 institutions

•~6000 students

•~700 professors

•Annual budget : 240 MSfr (160M€)

•Special Ra&D Swiss Fund :20 MSfr (13 M€)

HES-SO

The Universities of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland




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The University of Applied Sciences of FRIBOURG

• EIA-FR (former name)(Ecole d’Ingénieurs et d’Architectes)

– Numbers•~550 students•~72 professors•~68 assistants•Budget ~24 MSfr (16 M€)•8 departments (next silde)

– Objectives•To provide graduate and postgraduate formation

•To perform applied research and technology transfer to industry




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Departments

Energie électriqueEnergie électrique

ElectroniqueElectronique

MécaniqueMécanique

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The TIC department

Technologie de l’Information et de la Communication

–185 students•95 Computer Science + 90 Telecom

–15 specialized professors•7 Computer Science + 8 Telecom

–12 scientific collaborators •6 Computer Science + 6 Telecom

–10 laboratories•5 Computer Science + 5 Telecom




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MISL

• Vision– Provide the needed expertise and know-how to

SME’s– Shape new trends in the area of emerging Mobile

& Nomadic Information Technologies and Services

• Mission– Applied research & development– Advanced technology watch– Consulting & Expertise




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MISL : Core expertise (1/3)

• Computer Science

–Information systems•Mobile and Wireless software (J2EE, J2ME, .NET, Windows CE,..)

–Ubiquitous computing•Context based services (Web services, UDDI, WSDL, SOAP,…)

•Mobile devices (SmartPhone, TabletPC, PDA, TAG-RF,…)

–Multimodal interfaces•Voice control, key control (VoiceXML, SALT, DMTF,…)




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MISL: Core expertise (2/3)

• Computer Applications

–Multimedia information retrieval•Audiovisual content based description (MPEG-7, MPEG21,…)

–Document engineering•Documents management and publication (XML schemas, XSL, SVG, SMIL,…)

–Distributed HPC•Parallel computing (PVM, MPI, Parallel OOP…)•GRID computing (Globus,…)




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MISL: Core expertise (3/3)

• Telecommunications

–Cellular radio communications• Applications and services using GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, DECT

–Wireless LAN•WiFi, IEEE 802.11a,b,g,…, security•Roaming, mobile IP, traffic shaping (under development)

–Emerging technologies•Ad-hoc networks (WLAN based, hybrid, …)•Software agents (JADE/LEAP, Grasshoper, …)




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Other joint expertise• Synergies computer sciences & telecommunication

– Same department•TIC =Technologie de l’information et de la communication

– Additional expertise in telecommunication

•Industrial networks–Network architecture–Fixed access technology (RNIS, ADSL, CATV, PLC, ...)–Multimodal et multimedia interface (VoIP, H.320, H.323)

•High speed network–Architecture (LAN, ATM, MPLS, ...)–QoS–Performance

•Cisco Academy




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Projects (mobile)• Mobile Infrastructure

– InfraWap•Infrastructure for Wireless Application Protocol used in business environments

– MIMA: Mobile information device profile and Mobile agents– MITECH: Mobile Internet Enabling Technologies– I-Athlete

•Mobile distributed environment to ease the coordination of trainings activities between ski athletes, trainers, physicians and technical collaborators

– VOICE•Voice recognition based services and database web services for dynamic follow-up of training and races for ski athletes and trainers.

– AWLM: Autonomous Wireless LAN Management•Distributed management platform for the optimization of frequency planning in public and private WLAN.

– SiDRE•Investigations of Software and Defined Radio for the regulator




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Projects (Information Systems)

• Ubiquitous Computing– SmartCadie: Smart Articles in a Context-Aware Dynamic Identification

Environment

– Context-based User Interface (C-UI)•User-Context adaptation, Device-Context adaptation

• E-Learning– Classroom 2000

•Authoring Environment for courses setup using computer supported teachware and interactive distant learning.

– Learning Assistant •Web-based authoring system to enhance interactions between students, teachers and course contents in distance education contexts Multimedia Information Retrieval

– FETransfer•Web-based authoring system to manage courses materials in online/offline mode




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Projects (Information Systems)

• Multimedia information retrieval– COALA: Content-Oriented Audiovisual Library Access

•The aim of the project is to design and implement a digital audio-visual archive system for TV broadcasters and video archive owners with facilities to provide effective content-based access to both professional and non-professional users.

• Document Engineering– XML Based e-services (Internet/Intranet/Extranet)

•EIA-FR/HEG web sites

– contractX project•Symfact

– DMSML (Document Management and Sharing Markup Language)

•PhD Thesis – collaboration with DET/University of Florence




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Projects (GRID)• Distributed HPC

– FlooFoS•Floods forecast system in a GRID environment

– POOP•Parallel Object Oriented Programming (PhD in collaboration with EPFL)

– Global Computing•Transparent resources detection and optimal allocation

– CoreGRID•Foundation, Software Infrastructures and applications for large scale distributed, Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies (NoE FP6)

– MSACIHAA •Modeling and simulation of waves propagation using PARFLOW to improve the quality of ILS (Inflight Landing Systems)

– Fluid/structure interaction•High-Order Fluid-Flow Solvers for Moving Domains and Free Surfaces




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MISL: Partners• Industrial

– National • Ericsson, Swisscom, Infoteam, Symfact, Europlex, ...• Microsoft Research Center, OFCOM/BAKOM

– International• Micropole Univers, Fi-System, Synaptique, GFI, Thales,

Cambridge Technologies Partners, etc.• FIAT Research Center

• Academic– National

• UNIFR – IPG, EPFL – LITH, HEVs, …

– International• University of Florence-I, INSA-Lyon-F, INRIA-F,

Fachhochschule Offenburg-D, Sandia-USA, Polytechnique Montréal-CA, Northeastern University-Boston-USA, ...




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EIA-FRUniversity of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland

Bd de Pérolles 80 – CP 32CH-1705 Fribourg, Switzerland

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