Dr. Alexandre de Spindler

Alexandre is interested in the design and implementation of architectures, frameworks and platforms, in distributed and collaborative information environments as well as mobile and personal information systems.

Background

Alexandre studied computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. During his studies he focused on software engineering, computational statistics, information systems and neuroinformatics as a minor subject. He joined the Global Information Systems Group in August 2005.

Developments in mobile phone technologies have opened the way for new mobile applications that allow users to interact and share information, along with a growing developer community supported by vendor toolkits. However, current programming platforms for mobile phones provide limited support for information management and sharing, requiring developers to deal with low-level issues such as data persistence, data exchange and vicinity sensing.

Alexandre is looking for high-level abstractions and models that support the development of mobile applications. He is analysing the requirements of mobile applications and designing an application framework simplifying application development. The framework is based on a simple and flexible object model including a meta object protocol. It provides high-level abstractions for information persistence, location-awareness, opportunistic information sharing and vicinity sensing while fostering the orthogonal separation of concerns. Developers benefit from these features and design principles as they simplify the development of advanced applications.

In general, Alexandre is interested in any form of self-organising and decentralised social activities resulting in a collaboration aiming at supporting the participants.

Publications

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Projects

• OMS Avon is a Java implementation of OMS... »»
• OMinho is a prototype Java implementation of a platform for applications in mobile collaborative environments... »»

Teaching

• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2005/2006
• Mobile and Personal Information Systems, Winter Term 2005/2006
• Informationssysteme für Ingenieure, Summer Term 2006
• Information Systems Laboratory, Summer Term 2006
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Winter Term 2006/2007
• Mobile and Personal Information Systems, Winter Term 2006/2007
• Informationssysteme für Ingenieure, Summer Term 2007
• Information Systems Laboratory, Summer Term 2007
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Autumn Term 2007
• Mobile and Personal Information Systems, Autumn Term 2007
• Object-Oriented Databases, Autumn Term 2007
• Informationssysteme für Ingenieure, Spring Term 2008
• Information Systems Laboratory, Spring Term 2008
• Information Systems (Advanced Course), Autumn Term 2008
• Mobile and Personal Information Systems, Autumn Term 2008
• Object-Oriented Databases, Autumn Term 2008
• Informationssysteme für Ingenieure, Spring Term 2009
• Information Systems Laboratory, Spring Term 2009

Student Advisor

• Christoph Lins, Event-based Information Sharing, MSc Thesis, March 2009
• Philip Stutz, Association-Based Framework for Personal Information Systems, MSc Thesis, April 2009
• Christoph Zimmerli, Performance Optimisation in an Object-Oriented Database Management System, MSc Thesis, May 2009
• Oliver Keller, A Collection-Based System for Mobile Phones, MSc Thesis, December 2009