Publications with abstracts by Lappeenranta University of Technology Laakkonen, J. ; Kallonen, T. ; Heikkinen, K. ; Porras, J. ; Usability of Music for Social Inclusion of Children - System and Architecture Requirements for UMSIC Middleware 2010, p. 55 - 61, Volume 5, Issue 1, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine ISSN 1556-6072 ABSTRACT (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5430538) This article is an overview of the system and architecture requirements of middleware for the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)-funded usability of music for social inclusion of children (UMSIC) project. The main objective of the UMSIC project is to use modern mobile technologies to increase social inclusion among children. In this article, the general architecture and the components of the UMSIC middleware are described and its relation to the requirements set by the scenarios is presented. In addition, the relation of the UMSIC project and PeerHood, an existing implementation of peer-to-peer communications and neighborhood concept, is described. Index Terms: middleware, music, peer-to-peer computing, social sciences, PeerHood, UMSIC middleware, children social inclusion, middleware architecture requirements, mobile technologies, music usability, peer-to-peer communications, seventh framework programme   Laakkonen, Jussi & Kallonen, Tommi & Heikkinen, Kari & Porras, Jari Introducing UMSIC Middleware Services.2009, p. 53-60, Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of Finnish-Russian University Cooperation in Telecommunications (FRUCT). Helsinki, Finland, 3-6 November 2009. ISBN 978-5-8088-0483-8. ABSTRACT Service orientation is an acknowledged approach for its capability to abstracting computing from the underlying hardware and software layers. Furthermore, service orientation can also be seen as dominant paradigm for application development. As future networks are required to behave in a dynamic manner, sufficient coordination at abstract level of middleware deployments is required. Peer-to-Peer networking has shown capability in absorbing service orientation and dynamic behavior. In this paper, services for Peer-to-Peer networking in UMSIC project are introduced. Index Terms: Middleware, Service, UMSIC, Application development, PeerHood, Peer-to-Peer   Kallonen, Tommi & Laakkonen, Jussi & Porras, Jari & Heikkinen, Kari & Myllykoski, Mikko & Paananen, Pirkko & Read, Janet C & Rantalainen, Aapo & Hedberg, Henrik. Introducing UMSIC scenarios 2009, p. 5, Wireless World Research Forum 23rd Meeting 20-22 October 2009 in Beijing, China. ABSTRACT In this paper the scenarios, stand-alone, ad hoc, public and networked, of FP7 funded UMSIC project are presented. The objective of these scenarios is to use innovative mobile communication technologies and music technologies to enable social inclusion of children. This paper presents the current status and narration of scenarios. The scenarios were constructed based on the overall goals of the UMSIC project. After the scenarios were constructed, they were used as starting points when collecting the requirements for musical engineering, user interfaces and communication between devices as well as designing the implementation of JamMo application and UMSIC middleware supporting it. Index Terms: scenario, software design, user requirements   Laakkonen, Jussi & Kallonen, Tommi & Porras, Jari & Heikkinen, Kari System and Architecture requirements for UMSIC middleware 2009, p. 4, Wireless World Research Forum 23rd Meeting 20-22 of October 2009 in Beijing, China. ABSTRACT In this paper an overview of system and architectural requirements of middleware in FP7 funded UMSIC project are described. One of the objectives of the UMSIC project is to use modern mobile technologies to enable social inclusion. In the project the social inclusion of children is achieved through the use of a mobile application utilizing modern network technologies. This paper presents collected and derived requirements for the realization of the UMSIC middleware and the architecture. The requirements are gathered from scenarios which describe the usage of the application from the user point of view. One of the scenarios is used as an example. The specification for the UMSIC middleware and its architecture is derived from the requirements. In this paper the general architecture and the components of the UMSIC middleware is described and the relation to requirements set by scenarios is presented. In addition the relation of the UMSIC project and PeerHood, an existing implementation of Peer-to-Peer communications and neighborhood concept, is described including the benefits, which can be gained when using the approach provided by PeerHood. Index Terms: Middleware, Requirements, UMSIC.