Projects Marten van Sinderen

• 2008-2012: U-Care (User-tailored Care service platform; project manager), an IOP GenCom project (IGC0816) aiming at the development of a services platform that facilitates creation and provisioning of user-tailorable healthcare services for the networked home environment.

• 2008-2012: Value-IT, an NWO sponsored project that develops automated techniques for value-based adaptive configuration of multi-supplier commercial IT service bundles. Our focus is on the derivation and deployment of a coordination process and supporting web services, given a value constellation.

• 2006-2008: SPICE (Service Platform for Innovative Communication Environment), a 6th Framework Integrated Project (Ref IST 027617), to design, develop, evaluate and prototype an extendable overlay architecture and framework that supports (1) easy and quick service creation of intelligent and ambient-aware services; (2) cooperation of multiple heterogeneous execution environments; and (3) pan-European seamless delivery of services across operator domains, networks and terminals.

• 2004-2008: AMIGO (Ambient Intelligence for the Networked Home Environment), a 6th Framework Integrated Project (Ref. IST 004182), focusing on the development of open and interoperable middleware as well as services for the networked home environment in which home automation, consumer electronics, mobile communications and PC functionality are integrated.

• 2004-2008: A-MUSE (Architectural Modeling Utility for Service Enabling in Freeband; project manager), a Freeband BSIK project (Ref. BSIK 03025), to research and develop a design methodology for Freeband services, including the necessary architecture, models and tools.

• 2004-2008: AWARENESS (context Aware mobile Networks and Services; workpackage manager), a Freeband BSIK project (Ref. BSIK 03025), to research and design a service and network infrastructure for context-aware and pro-active mobile applications, and validate this through prototyping with mobile health applications. My focus was on the infrastructural support for context-aware applications, including context modelling, context binding and trust/privacy solutions.

• 2004-2006: E-NEXT (Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies; plenary meeting member), a 6th Framework Network of Excellence (Ref. IST 506869). Our focus in this research network was on mobile, ambient and self-aware networking.

• 2003-2003: ArCo (Architectural Concepts for Service-oriented Design; project manager), a project sponsored by the Telematica Instituut. ArCo pursued the development of a conceptual framework for service-oriented and component-based architecture design of distributed applications.

• 2002-2005: EQUANET (End-to-End Quality of Service in Next-Generation Networks), a Dutch TS project (Ref. TS IT 2031), aiming at the development of end-to-end solutions for QoS in multi-domain and multi-level infrastructures. I contributed to the middleware level QoS aspects.

• 2002-2004: MODA-TEL (Model-Driven Architecture for Telecommunications Systems Development and Operations; deputy member of the Project Management Committee), a 5th Framework IST project (Ref. IST 37785), targeting the development of a sound methodology and tool set to support the application of model-driven architectures in the telecommunication domain.

• 2002-2004: WASP (Web Architectures for Services Provisioning; workpackage manager), a Freeband Knowledge Impulse project aims at developing methods and a platform to support context-aware applications and services using web services technologies. My research in this project focused on service-oriented design and the role of web services in this design approach.

• 1999-2000: FRIENDS (Framework for Integrated Engineering and Deployment of Services; member of the Project Management Committee), a Dutch BTS project, which developed an integrated services platform, supporting flexible service development, deployment and exploitation. I contributed to the definition of the overall architecture and service infrastructure solutions.

• 1998-2003: AMIDST (Application of Middleware in Services for Telematics; project manager), a project sponsored by the Telematica Instituut. The project aimed at the development of next generation object-middleware architectures, particularly to provide adaptive support to quality-aware distributed object applications. As project leader, I was responsible for the overall management and coordination of the project. I also contributed to the definition of the overall architecture.

• 1996-1997: MESH (Multimedia services on the Electronic Super Highway), a Dutch BTS project, which developed and demonstrated a multimedia services platform supporting advanced telematics services in the Dutch educational and medical sector. My work concerned the definition of an overall MESH architecture, which forms the basis for implementing, maintaining and extending the MESH system.

• 1995-1998: TESTBED (Testomgeving voor analyse en herontwerp van Bedrijfsprocessen), an initiative of the Telematics Research Centre, sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, which aimed at the development of methods and tools for business process redesign. My work focused on the definition of an architectural model for business process (re-) design, using results from the domain of distributed systems design (e.g., causality-relations for modelling behaviour).

• 1994-1996: PLATINUM (Platform providing Integrated services to New Users of Multimedia), a Dutch BTS project, in which a broadband technology, a middleware technology, and multimedia applications were developed. My work included contributions to the development of an architecture for the middleware and application layers and the design of a shared whiteboard component.

• 1991 – 1993: Cassiopeia, a RACE II project (Ref. RACE 2049) in which an architecture for integrated service engineering was defined and validated. My work was concerned with the evaluation and development of methods, including object oriented methods, for the definition and integration of various relevant architectures.

• 1989-1992: LOTOSphere, an ESPRIT II project (Ref. ESPRIT 2304) in which design methods and tools centred on the FDT LOTOS were developed for exploitation by industry. My work focused on the development of concepts, including specification styles, for structured design and on the application of these concepts to upper layer services and protocols.

• 1985-1987: SEDOS (Software Environment for the Design of Open distributed Systems), an ESPRIT I project (Ref. ESPRIT 119) in which software tools for the design and implementation of services and protocols were developed, associated with the FDTs LOTOS and ESTELLE. My work included the application of LOTOS for the formal description of the OSI session service and protocol standards. The resulting specifications were published as ISO/IEC Technical Reports.

• 1982-1983: Network Interconnection, a COST Action No. 11bis project in which an architecture for the interconnection of different data communication networks was developed. My work included the definition of the network interconnection architecture and the development of a lightweight flexible flow control mechanism in a multi-network environment.