Matt Stabeler

Main Tasks from meetings
• Lorcan to provide Gumstix device to look at
• Matt to look into Sensor ML

Meeting With Lorcan and Steve 25 Oct 2007

Attached is 17 October Supervisor Meeting minutes, the Main tasks are:

• Reading – paddy will suggest a thesis (or 2) to read, and also get a good paper from the conference, that can be used to get an idea of style etc.
• Spk to Tom re shimmers
• Also speak to lorcan/steve about other sensors we have about the place (MSP’s, gumstix)
• Matt will speak to Simon D and together with paddy will bounce ideas off him
• Matt will setup a blog/wiki for paddy to keep a track of whats going on in Matt’s PhDLand….
• Speak to RAS / Raz about cross layer management – autonomy

Ubitracker management resides at:

http://kind.ucd.ie/~mattstabeler/ubitracker/

Ubitracker Interface:

http://kind.ucd.ie/~tomholland/ubitracker/

Currently Implemented:

XML Location Feed

Tag Meta-Data feed

Pavatar Support for users URL

Ideas to implement:

Add Group iCal to XML Feed

Scrape users site for FOAF data, and attempt to link ‘objects’ together

Scrape for hCard’s and Contact information

Find RSS feeds based on URL

Use XFN Information

Not alot i’m afraid :S

Read so far is the content of my current BibTex database can be found in the uploaded file 🙂

ToRead

is what I have on the list to read 🙂

18 September Meeting

ACM Digital Libratry
Acm.org/dl
IEEE
Search for research title and other keywords – / autonomics/adaptive/reconfigure etc
etc.
Also review papers.
Look into bibdesk
Q’s for paddy
• Student number/ 2nd supr
Simon is 2nd
Modules check:
(Should be doing MSC ones not UG)
Machine learning s2
Dist Systems S2
Natural Comp. S1
Data Mining S1
• Reading
Read about construct and get papers from Steve and Lorcan etc etc.
Paddy will give 2-3 papers, read those then find references etc etc.
*** Read the Abstract, introduction then conclusion to see if paper is worth reading
CREATE a WIKI or similar to keep paddy informed of status/reading/what produced
So he can make sure on the right track, and keep up to date
Observe questions that are being asked, distill them, summarise them
To create a classification Taxonomy to see what has been done and where
there are gaps!
• Goals and timeline:
Learn Construct and contribute to SRG community with mini-project 1 – Month
Create website for SRG members – collab. With joe – 1 month
Lit Review – 3 months
After 2-3 months start a meaty programming project that asks/solves questions in area
of interest,
• Conferences
• Submission Format
After 1 year create transfer report + research plan which will be discussed by panel to
see if to continue
2nd Supr is Simon