Towards Creating Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensing Environments - the NoE CRUISE

Gabriele Kotsis
(Technical Director in CRUISE)
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institut f"ur Telekooperation, Austria


Abstarct: Technical advances in wireless networks and the miniturisation of digital devices have enabled new computing and communication paradigms and allow us nowadays to embed communication and computation power nearly everywhere in our environments. However, there are still a lot of research and practical issues to be solved if we want to follow the vision of creating intelligent sensing environments, which is the ultimate goal of the European Network of Excellence (NoE) CRUISE.

CRUISE intends to be a focal point in the planning and coordination of research on communication and application aspects of wireless sensor networking in Europe. It brings together a diverse group of partners who will integrate their expertise and knowledge gained in projects on related fields. CRUISE partners share the vision of ubiquitous intelligent sensing environments and are convinced that a NoE in this field is necessary, taking into account t he benefits that sensor networks have to offer to European society and the current weakness and fragmentation in this field in Europe.

In this presentation, an overview of the research topics addresses in CRUISE will be given. The presentation will specifically focus on application scenarios and the associated research challenges as identified within CRUISE.

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Kotsis was born on October 29th, 1967, in Vienna, Austria. She received her masters degree (1991, honored with the Award of the Austrian Computer Society), her PhD (1995, honored with the Heinz-Zemanek Preis) and the venia docendi in computer science (2000) from the University of Vienna.
She was working as a researcher and teacher at the University of Vienna (1991-2001), at the Vienna University for Economics and Business Administration (2001) and at the Copenhagen Business School (2002). Since December 2002 she is holding a full professor position at the Telecooperation Department at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz.
Her research interests include performance management of computer systems and networks, workgroup computing, mobile and internet computing, telemedia and telecooperation.
Prof. Kotsis is author of numerous publications in international conferences and journals and is co-editor of several books. She is member of the steering board of the EuroNGI network of excellence on next generation internet and Technical Director in the NoE Project CRUISE. She is also leading several national research projects and involved in industrial cooperation in Austria and abroad.
Since April 2003 she is president of the Austrian Computer Society.