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Chen and Helal Receive IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2009 Best Paper Award
October 21st, 2009
CISE professor Sumi Helal and Ph.D. candidate Chao Chen received the prestigious best paper award for their research article entitled "Device Integration in SODA using the Device Description Language." SAINT 2009 - the 9th Annual International Symposium on Applications and the Internet is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the Information processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
The paper describes a framework along with implementation and a proposed standard of a description language that revolutionizes the way sensors and devices are integrated, interconnected and deployed. The Device Description Language (DDL) enables a network of devices to autonomically and dynamically integrate and interconnect with one another without the need for engineers or system integrators. The framework enables programmers and developers to view the sensor network or the pervasive space as a collection of services, following the service-oriented device architecture. The paper contributes a re-distribution of roles and a clean separation of concerns among the sensor network owner, sensor and device manufacturers, system developers, middleware providers, and the run-time system supporting the entire life-cycle of the sensor network or the pervasive space.
DDL is based on the Atlas sensor platform archietcture and middleware developed by Dr. Helal and his students, and commercialized by Pervasa, Inc, a University of Florida start up founded in 2006.
