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Chen, Xu, Li and Professor Helal Receive The IEEE/IPSJ SAINT 2010 Best Paper Award
Nov 30, 2010
CISE professor Sumi Helal and Ph.D. students Chao Chen, Yi Xu, Kun Li received the prestigious best paper award for their research article entitled “Reactive Programming Optimizations in Pervasive Computing.” SAINT 2010 - the 10th 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 E-SODA a reactive (rule-based) programming model intended for pervasive computing systems along with Atlas Reactivity Engine (ARE) that implements the E-SODA model. Without careful optimizations, reactive programming could turn into a monstrous power drain of the pervasive system and its limited-energy sensor network. Two optimizations targeting energy efficiency and sentience efficiency were introduced and evaluated, based on the adaptive “push/pull envelope” concept.
As a background information, the Atlas reactivity engine aims at providing a restrained service-oriented environment for “safely” programming pervasive spaces. The Atlas reactivity engine is based on the Atlas sensor platform architecture and middleware developed by Dr. Helal and his students, and commercialized by Pervasa, Inc, a University of Florida start up founded in 2006.
