A fundamental difficulty faced by groups of agents that work together is how to efficiently coordinate their efforts. This coordination problem is both ubiquitous and challenging,...
Many strategies have been proposed to address the problems associated with managing increasingly complex computing systems. IBM's Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigm is one suc...
CALLAWAY, ROBERT DAVID. An Autonomic Service Delivery Platform for Service-Oriented Network Environments. (Under the direction of Michael Devetsikiotis and Yannis Viniotis.) Servi...
Robert D. Callaway, Michael Devetsikiotis, Yannis ...
Visions of smart homes have long caught the attention of researchers and considerable effort has been put toward enabling home automation. However, these technologies have not bee...
A. J. Bernheim Brush, Bongshin Lee, Ratul Mahajan,...
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...