Projects
The creation of autonomous public bodies from a European comparative legal perspective: international impulse, national restraint and how to reconcile these trends. University of Antwerp
From smart watches to autonomous cars: securing consumers’ rights and interests in the era of smart technology and the Internet of Things KU Leuven
The number of devices being connected to the internet is growing rapidly. This trend—referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT)—illustrates how everyday objects are gradually turned into smart devices. These smart devices are capable of collecting data from their surroundings and sharing those data over the internet.
The development of the IoT raises several legal questions from a consumer protection perspective. First, the ...
Spring is a new beginning: an investigation into the European Union's autonomous sanctions practice following the Arab spring KU Leuven
In recent years, the European Union (EU) has invoked several sanctions – or restrictive measures in the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) – against its southern neighbors. In 2011, when the Arab Spring struck the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it froze the assets of the former Tunisian and Egyptian regimes and imposed a large number of sanctions on the regimes of Qaddafi (Libya) and Assad (Syria). In 2010-2012, ...
Comparing and explaining the effects of organizational autonomy in the public sector. KU Leuven
Knowledge-driven and component based network architecture for applications with high quality demands Ghent University
Multimedia services over broadband DSL access and aggregation networks such as Broadcast TV (BCTV), Network Based Personal Video Recording and Video on Demand (VoD) have gained a lot of popularity in the last few years. For end users, these services introduce new possibilities such as interactivity and higher video quality. For service operators, they offer increased revenue in their Triple Play offer. At the same time, multimedia services ...
Investigating astrocyte toxicity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using human motor units KU Leuven
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the loss of both upper and lower motor neurons (MNs). In this regard, in the last years the non-cell autonomous contribution of reactive astrocytes has been considered as extremely influential to the course of the pathology. Unfortunately, in-vitro 2D cultures and mouse models are not capable to fully recapitulate molecular pathological features and motor ...
Autonomic deployment of advanced applications on mobile smart clients. Ghent University
Mobile devices that are limited in terms of CPU power, memory or battery power are only capable of executing simple applications. To be able to run advanced applications we will split up the application and execute parts on remote servers. Therefor we search algorithms to determine the optimal deployment and to adapt this deployment to changing context variables.
QoS-aware real-time framework for multiplay service delivery to end-users Ghent University
Today's broadband networks are evolving from a best-effort Internet data packet forwarder to a QoS-aware real-time framework for multiplay service delivery to end-users. This research targets the development of a new network paradigm that guarantees the QoE optimization of multimedia services by autonomically responding to network anomalies as they occur.