TSSG at the annual Irish Information Technology and Telecommunication Conference

The TSSG formed a strong presence at the annual Irish Information Technology and Telecommunication
conference, IT&T 2005 held at the National Maritime College, Cork Institute of Technology on 26-27th October this year.
This conference provided a forum for the presentation of current research results from both the IT and Telecommunications research communities. The broad scope of the conference theme reflects the diversity of research in these areas by incorporating computing and
telecommunications systems, architectures and content.
The TSSG published a full paper in the industrial track, presented an invited talk; a tutorial about commercialisation activities, and presented five posters in conjunction with short papers.
Dr Willie Donnelly, Head of Research and Innovation at Waterford Institute of Technology and Director of the TSSG presented on the topic of Commercialisation for the invited talk.
Dr-Ing. Tom Pfeifer, Mr. Barry Downes and Mr. Peter Elgar presented a full paper titled 'A 3G Mobile Services Eco-system: Catalyst'.
The other TSSG presentations at the event were:
Dr-Ing. Tom Pfeifer, Ms. Helene Haughney and Declan Lawlor: Industry Track: Mobile and Wireless: Frameworks and Ecosystems (tutorial)
PhD Candidates Steven Davy and Keara Barrett, Dr Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dr-Ing. Sven van der Meer, Dr Brendan Jennings, Mr. John Strassner: Policy-Based Architectures to Enable Autonomic Communications (poster / short paper)
Ms. Fiona Mahon, Dr-Ing. Tom Pfeifer, Mr.Micheal Crotty: Scenario Based Methodologies in Identifying Ubicomp Application Sets (poster / short paper)Dr Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dr-Ing. Tom Pfeifer: Active Node support for Autonomic Communications supporting Pervasive Systems (poster / short paper)
Mr.Kieran Sullivan, Dr-Ing. Tom Pfeifer: Privacy vs. High Granularity in Location-Aware Services: Mutually exclusive entities? (poster / short paper)
Mr. Gary Gaughan, Dr Brendan Jennings: Two Phase Rating of Dynamically Composed Services (poster / short paper)