Lightweight data and knowledge exchange for pervasive environments

On September 21, 2016, Xiang Su defended his PhD dissertation titled “Lightweight Data and Knowledge Exchange for Pervasive Environments" at University of Oulu. Xiang Su presented his dissertation with the assent of the Doctoral Training Committee of Technology and Natural Sciences of the University of Oulu, in a publicly open presentation held in Auditorium IT116, Linnanmaa, University of Oulu, and he was able to comment on every questions raised by opponent professor Johan Lilius. The thesis was supervised by professor Jukka Riekki and reviewed by Doctor Ora Lassila and associate professor Kerry Taylor. Part of the research was carried out during a one-year research visit at Aalto University, supervised by professor Sasu Tarkoma. The research work was funded by Infotech Oulu graduate school, NOKIA Foundation, HPY Research Foundation, Tauno Tönning Foundation, Finnish Foundation of Electronics Engineers, Walter Ahlström Foundation, and Tekniikan Edistämissäätiö. Part of the research was carried out in Knowledge Environment for Interacting ROBOt SWARMs (ROBOSWARM) project supported by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, Pervasive Service Computing project funded by the Ubiquitous Computing and Diversity of Communication (MOTIVE) programme of the Academy of Finland, and Internet of Things (IoT) program funded by Tekes. The full text of the thesis, is available on the publication Repository of the University of Oulu at http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/isbn978-952-62-1335-4.