Contents
Newsletter Editorial Project Status Project Results Project Exploitation Interest Group Invitation
Partner Profile (EMT) Electronic Version Newsletter Archive GAMBAS on Linked-In
Project Facts Events and Publications
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DITORIAL
Welcome to the sixth and final issue of the GAMBAS newsletter, with which we would like to inform you about the results of the GAMBAS (Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services) European research project.
It has been three months since the last issue of the GAMBAS newsletter - in which we have released our key demonstrator application publicly. Since the end of the GAMBAS project has arrived, it is time to summarize the results of the project and to provide an outlook on the upcoming exploitation initiatives that we were able to establish during the last year. As our partner profile in this edition of the newsletter, we present EMT Madrid which – as the public bus network operator of Madrid
– represents a key end user of the GAMBAS project.
In our events section, we report on past events such as at the Annual Polis Conference in Madrid.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue and we invite you to provide suggestions for improving your GAMBAS experience via email to marcus.handte@uni-due.de.
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ROJECT
S
TATUS
The overall objective of the GAMBAS project is the development of an innovative and adaptive middleware to enable the privacy-preserving and automated utilization of behavior-driven services that adapt autonomously to the context of users.
OBJECTIVES
To achieve this overall objective the GAMBAS project has the following scientific and technical sub goals:
1. Development of a generic middleware that encompasses:
Models and infrastructures to support the interoperable representation and scalable processing of context.
Frameworks and methods to support the generic yet resource-efficient multi-modal recognition of context.
Protocols and tools to derive, generalize, and enforce user-specific privacy-policies.
Techniques and concepts to optimize the interaction with behavior-driven services.
2. Validation of the middleware and its components using lab tests and a prototype application in the public transportation domain.
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HASESConceptually, the GAMBAS project is divided into three main phases:
The second phase included the first implementation of the GAMBAS middleware as well as the development of a refined version of the underlying specifications.
The third phase included the development of the second version of the middleware and the prototype applications. Furthermore, it included the final evaluation by means of laboratory tests and user studies.
At the time of writing, the project is at the end of the third phase and close to completion, so it is time for us to look back at three years of
development and to summarize the project’s
main results.
P
ROJECT
R
ESULTS
Over the past three years, the GAMBAS project has delivered upon a number of results that have been made available publicly. On the scientific side, the project has delivered a number of publicly available specifications (PAS) which can be downloaded from the project website. The list of specifications encompasses all components of the middleware and includes:
D1.1 Requirements-Specification
D1.2 Use-Case-Specification
D1.3.1 Architecture Design 1
D1.3.2 Architecture Design 2
D2.1.1 Data Acquisition Specification 1
D2.1.2 Data Acquisition Specification 2
D3.1.1 Privacy Preservation Specification 1
D3.1.2 Privacy Preservation Specification 2
D4.1.1 RDF Sensor Formalisms and Ontologies 1
D4.1.2 RDF Sensor Formalisms and Ontologies 2
D5.1 Intent Aware User Interface Model 1
D5.3 Intent Aware User Interface Model 2
In addition, the project has published 18 papers in scientific workshops, conferences and journals. Some examples include:
Muhammad Umer Iqbal, Marcus Handte, Stephan Wagner, Wolfgang Apolinarski, Pedro José Marrón. Enabling Energy-Efficient Context Recognition with Configuration Folding. In IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, March 19-23, Lugano, Switzerland, 2012
Wolfgang Apolinarski, Marcus Handte, Pedro José Marrón. An Approach for Secure Role Assignment. In 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (Best Paper Award), June 26-29, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2012
Manuel Serrano, Alma Solar, Pedro José Marrón, Marcus Handte. Autonomous Journey Information Services for Trip Planners: E-WISETRIP and GAMBAS Projects, In 19th ITS World Congress, October 22-26, Vienna, Austria, 2012
Danh Le Phuoc, Minh Dao-Tran, Minh-Duc Pham, Peter Boncz, Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink. Linked Stream Data Processing Engines: Facts and Figures. In ISWC, November 11-15, Boston, USA, 2012.
Stefan Foell, Reza Rawassizadeh, Gerd Kortuem.Informing the design of future transport information services with travel behaviour data. In: Workshop on SenCity: Uncovering the Hidden Pulse of a City, 9 Sep 2013, Zurich, Switzerland
A full list is available on the project website at:
Besides from scientific contributions, the GAMBAS consortium has provided an implementation of the GAMBAS middleware and made it available as a Software Development Toolkit in both binary and source format. The toolkit is licensed liberally under an LGPL license which not only enables non-commercial but also commercial exploitation. A description of the SDK can be found on the project website at:
http://www.gambas-ict.eu/api
Last but not least, the GAMBAS consortium has developed a number of prototype applications and services, which have been made available through the Google Play store for Android devices. The list of applications includes:
GAMBAS Middleware
GAMBAS Linked Weather
GAMBAS Voiceprint Launcher
GAMBAS Locator
GAMBAS Madrid Navigator
More details on these applications can be found at http://www.gambas-ict.eu/app
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ROJECT
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XPLOITATION
Given the amount of technical material and applications that have been built during the course of the project, a clear path towards reuse has been developed during the project. By releasing the artifacts (where possible) as open source, the GAMBAS consortium has attracted other European projects to reuse (some of) the results.
For example, SIMON has chosen the GAMBAS Bus Navigator prototype as technical basis for their multimodal navigation software for mobility impaired users. This decision is an excellent showcase for the innovations
regarding trip tracking and user interface models developed by the members of the GAMBAS consortium.
SIMON is a demonstration-oriented project, started in January 2014, with three large-scale pilots in Madrid, Lisbon and Parma. SIMON aims at promoting the independent living and societal participation of mobility-impaired people in the context of public parking areas and multiple transport modes, through the adoption of specific navigation information and access-rights management solutions.
More information about SIMON can be found on the project website at http://ww.simon-project.eu.
In addition to SIMON, SmartKYE has previously chosen the GAMBAS adaptive data acquisition and processing framework as technical basis for the implementation of their complex event processing subsystem. This decision was a great showcase for the genericity of the software and flexibility of the tools developed in the GAMBAS project.
The goal of the SmartKYE project is to develop a system for the future smart grid neighborhood that will enable better business decisions to be made based on real-time fine-grained data. Key end-users targeted are the public authorities who can monitor and manage key indicators in neighborhoods with the goal of better energy efficiency and CO2 reduction.
More information about SmartKYE can be found at http://www.smartkye.eu.
I
NTEREST
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ROUP
I
NVITATION
If you are interested in the GAMBAS project objectives and results, we want to encourage you to join the GAMBAS Interest Group at
http://www.gambas-ict.eu/sig.
In the future, we will invite you to join related interest groups and we will inform you about other projects of members of the GAMBAS consortium. However, as an immediate benefit, you will get access to the publications of the project consortium. Register today!
P
ARTNER
P
ROFILE
(EMT)
The EMT Madrid (“Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid S.A.”) is a public
company created in 1947, it is owned by the Madrid council. It runs the bus transport service in the municipality of Madrid and is the largest company in Spain in its industry. It
is integrated in the “Consorcio Regional de Transportes” (Regional transport authority)
which coordinates the transport offer in Madrid City and surroundings.
Nowadays, EMT employs nearly 8000 workers and 2100 buses are available to travel in 217
routes across Madrid. Yearly, the EMT’s buses
are travelling more than 100 million kilometers, carrying 440 million passengers.
Apart of the transport offer of EMT, which it is positioning the company as the most important in Madrid traffic system, the company is in the cutting edge of Intelligent Transport Systems and Customer Information Systems. The EMT of Madrid is really concern with the fact of improving the service given to the passengers and those investments will mean a better service to the population.
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LECTRONIC
V
ERSION
An electronic version of this newsletter can be found on the GAMBAS website at
http://www.gambas-ict.eu/download.
Access to the electronic version is free of charge.
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EWSLETTER
A
RCHIVE
The GAMBAS website also provides access to the archived versions of this newsletter. If you are interested in receiving the next issue of the newsletter via email, just sign up for the Interest Group so we can forward them to you at http://www.gambas-ict.eu/sig.
GAMBAS
ON
LINKED-IN
The GAMBAS project is now on linked-in. You can join us to be updated on the events and activities for these final stages of the project. We will be happy to count on you; do not forget to tell your contacts! You can find it at
P
ROJECT
F
ACTS
Acronym: GAMBAS
Title: Generic Adaptive Middleware
for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services
Coordinator: Pedro José Marrón
Institution: Universität Duisburg-Essen
Email: pjmarron@uni-due.de
Consortium: Universität Duisburg-Essen
(Germany)
ETRA Investigación y Desarrollo
(Spain)
National University of Ireland,
Galway (Ireland)
The Open University
(United Kingdom)
Aristech GmbH
(Germany)
Empresa Municipal de
Transportes de Madrid, S. A.
(Spain)
Duration: 36 months
Kickoff: February 2012
Budget: 3.105.024 €
Funding: 2.194.000 €
Scheme: EU FP7 STREP
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VENTS AND
P
UBLICATIONS
In the following, we would like to highlight a number of past events and demonstrations that were held by the GAMBAS consortium.
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ASTE
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P
OLIS2014
This year’s annual Polis conference took place in Madrid on November 27th and 28th, 2014.
During Polis, the members of the GAMBAS consortium demonstrated the Madrid Navigator application and the associated services. At Polis, all participants were able to use the Madrid Navigator on their own mobile devices. For more information on the Polis conference you can visit
http://www.polisnetwork.eu/events2/polisco nference/
PUBLICATION
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MADRID NAVIGATORIf you are visiting Madrid, we would like to invite you to test the GAMBAS Madrid Navigator on your own device.
that tells users which bus to take and where to leave.
The key features of Madrid Navigator include:
Hybrid offline maps and offline search for places in Madrid
Retrieval of bus timetables for all bus stops and all bus lines
Computation of walking routes within the city of Madrid
Computation of transit routes using the public bus network of Madrid
Accurate step-by-step navigation for trips with optional audio feedback
Retrieval of real-time in-bus location and route information
Integration of incidents captured by the bus network operator
Retrieval of nearby stops for arbitrary locations in the city
Visualization of the public bus lines and stops
Context-aware help to get new users started quickly
Get it on Google Play and let us know what
you think, it’s free. More information:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id =eu.gambas.prototype.navigator
PUBLICATION
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GAMBAS LOCATORThe GAMBAS Locator – one of the main show cases for the application development on top
of the GAMBAS middleware – is freely available on the Google Play store.
GAMBAS Locator enables users to continuously track their location. They can track visits to locations that are relevant for them and they can share their current location with their friends in a peer-to-peer fashion through the GAMBAS middleware.
In addition, the GAMBAS navigator can capture a user's personal noise exposure during the day and create a global noise map. The features of GAMBAS Locator include:
Energy-efficient continuous location tracking.
Automatic detection of relevant locations.
Map-based visualization of the user's location history.
Tracking and visualization of noise exposure.
Location prediction based on location histories.
Help us with the evaluation of the GAMBAS middleware and try the GAMBAS Locator today. When you're done let us know what you think. It is free. More information:
