http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/ News of the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence en http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/fileadmin/img/rss.gif http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/ News of the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 04 May 2012 14:44:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ In CONET's newsletter #17 you can find articles on a collaborative robotic deployment and on the Noptilus project, as well as a guest article from João Barros, a report about EWSN 2012 and member profiles of FBK and UniTN. Sidebar Fri, 04 May 2012 14:44:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2012-awards/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2012-awards/ The fourth CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards were handed over at EWSN 2012. Sidebar Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:06:00 +0100 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ 2012's first newsletter contains on the SPINE2 framework, co-operative Air Traffic Management, the makeSense project and SCHNEIDER's member profile. Sidebar Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:57:00 +0100 http://conet2012.cister-isep.info/ http://conet2012.cister-isep.info/ The Third International Workshop on Networks of Cooperating Objects is organized again by CONET and will be co-located with CPSWeek 2012. Submission deadline is January 30th, 2012. Sidebar Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:33:00 +0100 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/news/singleview/66/4752d8c7b0f7210364d4281f7d9d19bb/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/news/singleview/66/4752d8c7b0f7210364d4281f7d9d19bb/ *** Extended deadline for applications: December 31st, 2011 *** The Chairs of the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award Competitions in the area of Cooperating Objects. The prize is donated... *** Extended deadline for applications: December 31^st, 2011 *** The Chairs of the 9th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2012) and the CONET Consortium are pleased to announce the Master and PhD Thesis Award Competitions in the area of Cooperating Objects. The prize is donated by CONET, the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence. Cooperating Objects combine the strong functional aspects of embedded systems, pervasive computing and wireless sensor networks. Cooperating objects entities federate themselves into dynamic and loose networks in order to reach a common goal. This common goal will typically be related to sensing or control. Theses eligible for the competition

• have to be written in English;
• have to be supervised to a major part by an official European university (EU and EFTA);
• and have to completed between Dec 1^st, 2010 and Nov 30^th, 2011.

Candidates must submit the following materials (in English) in electronic format until Dec 31st, 2011:

• Application letter, including the name of the student, the title of the thesis, its duration, and its date of completion, the date of the defense, the overall grade and a report on the outstanding contributions of the thesis.
• Letter of recommendation from Advisor.
• The thesis itself.

Submission of a single document file in PDF format must be done thru EDAS at http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11675. The award will be assessed by CONET members. Criteria for selecting the winner are scientific originality, scientific significance for the field of Cooperating Objects, quality of the presentation and potential for practical application. Each category of thesis (MSc or PhD) will have separate prizes assigned by separate academic and industrial juries, for a total of 4 prizes:

• MSc Academic - 250 Euros
• MSc Industrial - 250 Euros
• PhD Academic - 500 Euros
• PhD Industrial - 500 Euros

The jury can decide not to award some of the prizes if the quality or significance of the submitted works is not relevant. The jury will decide on which track the thesis will be evaluated. The winners of each category will be awarded during EWSN 2012. If you have questions concerning the awards please contact Paulo Gandra de Sousa at awards@cooperating-objects.eu.]]> Sidebar Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:07:00 +0100 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ In CONET's 15th newsletter you can find the guest column "A Mining Technique for Body Sensor Network Data Repository", Telecom Italia's member profile, a presentation of PLANET, and a report on the 3rd CONET summer school. Sidebar Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:07:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ The 14th newsletter contains a guest column "Quo vadis, WSN Internet Integration?", an article about the SPINE (Signal Processing In Node Environment) Framework, and the ETHZ member profile. Sidebar Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:29:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ Newsletter issue no. 13 has been published. It contains SAP's member profile, a guest column, two articles by CONET partners and a short outlook on the CONET summer school. Sidebar Tue, 24 May 2011 16:11:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/newsletter/ The 12th issue of the CONET newsletter is ready for download, containing a guest column "Service Architecture for the Integration of UAS Applications", BRTE's member profile and articles about Contiki 2.5 and the CONET Award 2011. Sidebar Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:09:00 +0200 http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2011-awards/ http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2011-awards/ The third CONET Master and PhD Thesis Awards were handed over at EWSN 2011. Sidebar Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:07:00 +0200