We present techniques for incrementally managing schedules in domains where activities accrue quality as a function of the time and resources allocated to them and the goal is to ...
Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimmerman, Stephen F. ...
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
In the near future, homes are envisioned to be equipped with numerous intelligent communicating devices. Such smart home needs to exhibit highly adaptive behavior to meet the inha...
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Agents (hardware or software) that act autonomously in an environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. This integration is man...