GSD 2012

( Global Software Development )
ITU + UFPE

Intended Learning Outcomes:

Product (70%):

Process (30%):

Project Description

The goal of this project is to design, develop, and deploy web service robot(s) (aka., "programmable personal assistant(s)") that function on top of the internet, as it is.

The idea is that such programmable robots could then assist people in their everyday lives by automatically surfing web pages and web services, automatically extracting and submitting information, and automatically managing and coordinating various tasks. We expect that a lot of tasks could be automated and a lot of coordination taken care of by such services. Additionally, a lot of completely new things become possible.

The robots will interact with people via SMS which means that they will work for everyone, everywhere, all the time; even in developing countries where many people do not have access to the web, but often still have a cell phone!

This project will happen in collaboration with students from UFPE (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) in Recife, Brazil. We hope that the services developed could later be deployed in Brazil. Such robots should be able to make a substantial difference for people there.

Keywords:

TENTATIVE Schedule:

Kick-off & Related Work Survey

Danes only: Kick-off & Related Work Survey + Taxonomy of existing SMS-Based Services

[ SLIDES ]

(Brazilian Carnaval: Feb 17-22)

Feb 2012

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Web Robot Toy Service

Brazilians and Danes agree on group constitution, social software usage, and start developing the toy service.
Feb/Mar 2012

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Web Robot I

First Smash-Up service robot (without infra-structure vs. service-instance separation).

(Easter: Apr 03-09)

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Web Robot II

Second Smash-Up service robot (with infra-structure vs. service-instance separation).
Apr/May 2012

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Evaluation & REPORT

Evaluation. Deployment in field. REPORT!
May 2012

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SPL'ification

Brazilians: SPL'ification.
Danes: Exam
May/Jun 2012

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Advisors

Paulo Borba (Full Professor, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil) [ Brazilian advisor ]
Claus Brabrand (Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) [ Danish advisor ]

Assistance

Jakob G. Thomsen (Ph.D. Student, Aarhus Uni.) [ Technical assistance (SMS, scraping, Smash-ups) ]
Rodrigo Andrade (Ph.D. Student, UFPE) [ Technical assistance ]
Sebasian Buttrich (Research Lab Manager, PITLab, ITU) [ Technical assistance (SMS, network) ]
Radoslav Hristov Todorov (M.Sc., TA at ITU) [ Technical assistance (Deployment server) ]
Rosalba Giuffrida (Ph.D. Student, ITU) [ Social software assistance ]
Yoo Falk Jensen (ILU, ITU) [ Audio/Video assistance ]

Groups:

Group A:
André Aike Baars (aaba)
Stanka Ilieva Aleksandrova (sili)
Casper Hjemitslev Jensen (chje)
Andreea Vasile (andr)
Mads Tinggaard Pedersen (mtpe)
Martin Stanly Watts (mwat)
Christian Normann Larsen (cnor)
Filipe Wanderley Lima (fwl)
Natanael Joaquim da Silva Junior (njsj)
Guilherme Cavalcanti (goc2)

Group B:
Daniel Lingberg Winther (dlin)
Ionel Dan Blaguiescu (danbl)
Vaidas Sirtautas (vsir)
Jesper Vestergård (jeve)
Tan Phong Phan (tanp)
Torben Christoffer Andersen (tcan)
Søren Buron (sobu)
Lino Alves (laoj)
Bruno Rodrigues (bgcr)

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