Gamification, the use of game mechanics in non-gaming applications, has been applied to various systems to encourage desired user behaviors. In this paper, we examine patterns of ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli, David R. Millen, Joan Morr...
Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...
Operating system memory managers fail to consider the population of read versus write pages in the buffer pool or outstanding I/O requests when writing dirty pages to disk or netw...
Alexandros Batsakis, Randal C. Burns, Arkady Kanev...
This paper presents an approach for dynamic software reconfiguration in sensor networks. Our approach utilizes explicit models of the design space of the embedded application. The...
Employees depend on other people in the enterprise for rapid access to important information. But current systems for finding experts do not adequately address the social implicat...
Kate Ehrlich, Ching-Yung Lin, Vicky Griffiths-Fish...