A paper by Antti Juustila and Toni Räisänen titled “Atelier Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing” has been accepted to the 30th IRIS conference. Antti and Toni are working for IPCity at the University of Oulu, mainly related to work packages 4, 5, 6 and 7. IRIS (Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia) is organized this year in Tampere, Finland (www.iris30.fi).

IRIS represents probably the oldest yearly IS Conference in the world. The IRIS began in 1978 as an annual working seminar for Scandinavian researchers and PhD students. Over the years, there has been an increasing number of participants from outside Scandinavia.

Abstract of the paper:

Ubiquitous computing systems, running on distributed heterogeneous hardware and operating system platfoms, benefit from an overlaying software infrastructure hiding the complexity of the underlying technology form the applications. A software infrastructure for ubiquitous computing should enable ubicomp software components and applications consisting of these components to communicate with eachother over different types of networks, using different types of protocols. We describe an infrastructure called Atelier Infrastructure for ubiquitous computing systems, aiming at supporting the application developers in building distributed ubiquitous applications in heterogeneous hardware, operating system and programming environments. The Atelier Infrastructure addresses the abstraction, programming language independence, extendability and configurability requirements for an ubicomputing infrastructure by a messaging based communication and a distributed micro kernel software architectural pattern.