Kevin Doolin

SETU

Precision agriculture or smart farming brings the promise of significantly more efficient systems which lay a substantial foundation for the EU Green Deal in terms of carbon footprint reduction, sustainability, and increased productivity coupled with energy efficiency. However, deployment of technological solutions that enable this new era of agric...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how actors in the farmer’s network influence the adoption of smart farming technology (SFT) and to understand how social media affects this adoption process, in particular focusing on the influence of social media on trust in knowledge dissemination within the network. Design/methodology/approach The methodol...

The digital transformation in agriculture introduces new challenges in terms of data, knowledge and technology adoption due to critical interoperability issues, and also challenges regarding the identification of the most suitable data sources to be exploited and the information models that must be used. DEMETER (Building an Interoperable, Data-Dri...

The article focuses on the information security risks that arise from the use of dubious software as part of a DNA-sequencing pipeline. We show how the perpetrator can use a biologically engineered sample that contains the remote machine's IP address and port number to trigger Trojan spyware previously dormant, and create a connection to the remote...

The evolution of smart farming and precision agriculture during the last decades has led to an increase of the available solutions that can be used by farmers. However, these two paradigms have not yet achieved high acceptance by end user farmers due to various reasons. In this respect, this paper elaborates on an innovative Multi-Actor Approach ar...

We present the work towards strengthening the security of DNA-sequencing functionality of future bioinformatics systems against bio-computing attacks. Recent research has shown how using common tools, a perpetrator can synthesize biological material, which upon DNA-analysis opens a cyber-backdoor for the perpetrator to hijack control of a computati...

CA-MSNs are more intelligent and user-friendly than conventional online or mobile social networks. We first classify CA-MSNs into four categories, and divide their life cycle into four phases: discovery, connection, interaction, and organization. We then introduce personal and community context, and discuss the corresponding taxonomy. Subsequently,...

The technologies associated with the Internet of Things have great potential for application in the domain of food and agriculture, especially in view of the societal and environmental challenges faced by this sector. From farm to fork, IoT technologies could transform the sector, contributing to food safety, and the reduction of agricultural input...

Mobile social computing has exploded into people’s lives during the past 10 years, but to become truly pervasive it needs to be much more context-aware and personalizable. The next generation of social media needs to be able to react and adapt to the physical environments in which people live and act. The SOCIETIES project is integrating research u...

Recommending communities in social networks is the problem of detecting, for each member, its membership to one of more communities of other members, where members in each community share some relevant features which guaranteeing that the community as a whole satisfies some desired properties of similarity. As a result, forming these communities re...

The inherent context-awareness properties of pervasive computing and the need for efficient user profiling and location information management quickly made it obvious that context management would become a top priority requirement in telecommunications service platforms. What we now call social networking was ¿born¿ around the early-mid `00s, a tim...

Traditionally, pervasive systems are designed with a focus on the individual, offering services that take advantage of their physical environment and provide a context-aware, personalised user experience. On the other hand, social computing is centred around the notion of a community, leveraging the information about the users and their social rela...

With the rapid growth of social networks and users communities the need to attain privacy for end-users becomes mandatory especially with the recent privacy breaches and the inefficiency of anonymisation techniques [1]. The problem of maintaining privacy in recommender services become increasingly important since it aims at finding information that...

Professor Nick Taylor of the SOCIETIES project opened the session, explaining why it had been proposed and what the focus would be. He indicated that social computing has some unique characteristics which made it worthy of special treatment in the Future Internet (FI). These are – • Internet users need no encouragement to socialise and use social m...

Daidalos offers a platform for service and identity management that supports secure context-aware and personalizable delivery of service discovery, composition, and adaptation. It also provides a runtime environment for deployment and execution.

Current research in pervasive computing, as well as in the fields of mobile telecommunications and device manufacture are opening the way for convergence between mobile telecommunications and the traditional Internet towards the Future Internet. The ubiquitous computing paradigm integrates information processing into the objects that surround us in...

This paper provides a summary of the research undertaken in the area of pervasive computing in the European FP6 IST project Daidalos II. Pervasiveness is one of the five key concepts underlying the Daidalos project. We provide an overview and motivation for our research, we justify and describe the overall architecture, and we discuss some of the c...

A major research challenge in the IT domain nowadays is to enable new experiences by building intelligent spaces around users, enhanced by pervasive computing services. The European FP7 Project PERSIST (personal self-improving smart spaces) is investigating a novel approach to meet this challenge. PERSIST aims to define an ecosystem on top of which...

The workshop on architectures and platforms was organized at AMI-08 as a collaborative effort involving 4 projects (ASTRA, DAIDALOS, PERSIST, and Ubicollab). These projects address, in different ways, the challenge of developing platforms for Ambient Intelligence. The workshop aimed at bringing together the different perspectives gained in these pr...

This paper discusses service discovery, composition and adaptation, illustrating their usefulness in pervasive mobile environments in which a multitude of services are available to users. It addresses how service discovery and composition, incorporating personalization and context awareness, can provide focused sets of services tailored to a user's...

Natural communication among people happens in flexible ways and is strongly affected by the users’ situation (such as communication tools available, user’s location, and user’s preferences). This situation or context information is seldom used to initiate communication sessions among users. Current communication systems are indifferent about users’...

There is a clear trend towards making multimedia applications context-aware so as to customize them by taking into account any collection of information which may be relevant, such as e.g. user location. However, current multimedia services are dominated by IMS, which is seen as a service platform that uses the SIP protocol to access all services t...

The problem of personalised context aware service selection and composition is an important research area that is addressed within the pervasive service platform being developed by the Daidalos project. This paper briefly outlines the scenarios used and the overall platform architecture that underpin this development. It then describes the approach...

Pervasive computing is a new and emerging technology. The concept of pervasiveness and its deployment into reality are still not well aligned. This is because the vision of pervasiveness is a highly complex area that encompasses a large number of issues. The real vision of pervasiveness will never become a reality if everyone involved needs to repe...

Mobility is now the central focus of the lives of European citizens in business, education, and leisure. This will be enriched by pervasiveness in the future. The Daidalos vision is to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous network technologies that allow network operators and service providers to offer new and profitable services, giving users access...