Villalonga Palliser, Claudia

Claudia Villalonga Palliser Institut f. Elektronik ETZ H 64 Gloriastrasse 35 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 68 70 Fax: +41 44 632 12 10 E-Mail:

Claudia Villalonga will pursue her PhD at the Wearable Group of ETH Zürich in Spring 2012. Her PhD Thesis “Opportunistic Information Retrieval in the Real World Internet - Architecture, Methods and Models” provides methods and models for opportunistic information retrieval in the Real World Internet. Functionalities for the lookup and selection of resources that best fit the application requirements; and in dynamic setups, a functionality to adapt the set of selected resources. These mechanisms are based common semantic models that describe the resources in the Real World and the information they deliver. This PhD thesis was developed in collaboration with SAP Research Center Zürich, where she worked from April 2008 to September 2011.
Claudia received her Telecommunication Engineering degree by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2006. She wrote her Master Thesis at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, under the title “A Proxy based Solution for the Local Discovery of Self Promoting Services”. After finishing her Master Thesis, she continued her work at NEC Laboratories Europe for two years.
Claudia has taken part of the IST FP6 European projects MobiLife, MAGNET Beyond and SPICE, and the ICT FP7 European project SENSEI.

Research Interests

• Context recognition and inference
• Modeling and Ontologies

Student Projects

• Do I look like my neighbors? Methods to quantify sensor data similarity
• Modeling of Performance Metrics in Activity Recognition Chains

Publications

• Do I look like my neighbors? A Method to Detect Sensor Data Similarity for open-ended Activity Recognition Systems
  Sarah Neff, Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Eighth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'11), 2011
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• Dynamic Formation of Business Networks: A Framework for ‘Quality of Information’-based Discovery of Resources
  Markus Eurich, Claudia Villalonga and Roman Boutellier
  (2011), in: International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL), 2:4(44-60)
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• Shaping Sensor Node Ensembles according to their Recognition Performance within a Planning-based Context Framework
  Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Eighth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'11), 2011
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• A Resource Model for the Real World Internet
  Claudia Villalonga, Martin Bauer, Fernando Lopez, Vincent Huang and Martin Strohbach
  in: 5th European conference on Smart sensing and context (EuroSSC 2010), Springer-Verlag, 2010
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• Identifying Important Action Primitives for High Level Activity Recognition
  Atif Manzoor, Claudia Villalonga, Alberto Calatroni, Hong-Linh Truong, Daniel Roggen, Schahram Dustdar and Gerhard Tröster
  in: 5th European conference on Smart sensing and context (EuroSSC 2010), Springer-Verlag, 2010
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• Modeling of Sensor Data and Context for the Real World Internet
  Claudia Villalonga, Martin Bauer, Vincent Huang, Jesus Bernat and Payam Barnaghi
  in: PerCom'10 Workshops Proceedings, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2010
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• The SENSEI Real World Internet Architecture, "Towards the Future Internet - Emerging Trends from European Research"
  Vlasios Tsiatsis, Alexander Gluhak, Tim Bauge, Frederic Montagut, Jesus Bernat, Martin Bauer, Claudia Villalonga, Payam Barnaghi and Srdjan Krco
  pages 247-256, IOS Press, 2010
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• Bringing Quality of Context into Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems
  Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen, Clemens Lombriser, Piero Zappi and Gerhard Tröster
  in: First International Workshop on Quality of Context (QuaCon), 2009
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• Context Cells: Towards Lifelong Learning in Activity Recognition Systems
  Alberto Calatroni, Claudia Villalonga, Daniel Roggen and Gerhard Tröster
  in: Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Springer, 2009
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• The Real World Internet: Integrating the Physical World with the Digital World of the Network of the Future
  Mirko Presser, Payam Barnaghi, Markus Eurich and Claudia Villalonga
  (2009), in: Global IEEE Communications Magazine - Newsletter Section, 47:4(1-4)
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• The SENSEI Real World Internet Architecture
  Vlasios Tsiatsis, Alexander Gluhak, Tim Bauge, Frederic Montagut, Jesus Bernat, Martin Bauer, Claudia Villalonga, Payam Barnaghi and Srdjan Krco
  Poster at Future Internet Assembly in Stockholm, 2009
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• Context sessions: a novel approach for scalable context management in NGN networks
  Martin Strohbach, Martin Bauer, Ernö Kovacs, Claudia Villalonga and Nils Richter
  in: MNCNA '07: Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Middleware for next-generation converged networks and applications, Port Beach, California, pages 1-6, ACM, 2007
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• Enabling Technologies for Mobile Services: The MobiLife Book. Chapter 3: Context Awareness and Management
  A. Battestini, A. Flanagan, P. Floréen, S. Gessler, J. Koolwaaij, E. Lagerspetz, S. Lau, M. Luther, M. Martin, J. Millerat, B. Mrohs, P. Nurmi, M. Paolucci, J. Robinson, J. Suomela, Claudia Villalonga and M. Wagner
  John Wiley & Sons, 2007
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• Managing Personal Communication Environments in Next Generation Service Platforms
  Ralf Kernchen, Matthieu Boussard, Cristian Hesselman, Claudia Villalonga, Eric Clavier, Anna V. Zhdanova and Pablo Cesar
  in: 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007
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• Mobile Ontology: Towards a Standardized Semantic Model for the Mobile Domain
  Claudia Villalonga, Martin Strohbach, Niels Snoeck, Michael Sutterer, Mariano Belaunde, Ernö Kovacs, Anna V. Zhdanova, Laurent Walter Goix and Olaf Droegehorn
  in: Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2007 Workshops, Vienna, Austria, pages 248-257, Springer-Verlag, 2007
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