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Hello, my name is Jessie Dedecker and I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Programming Technology Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I was a doctoral fellow funded by the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders until October 2006. My research context centers around Mobile Computing, Ambient Intelligence (also known as Ubiquitous Computing or Pervasive Computing). In my Ph.D. dissertation I have defined the Ambient-Oriented Programming paradigm, a paradigm that defines a breed of object-oriented languages specifically geared towards dealing with the concurrency and distribution issues that arise in the context of mobile networks.

My research evolves around the design and implementation of programming languages and new programming abstractions for concurrent and distributed programming. In this context I have recently started to investigating the use of biological metaphors to structure mobile computing and ubiquitous computing applications.