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PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Sentient Processes - Process-based Applications in Pervasive Computing
Users' tasks are typically a sequence of steps. Today, the goal of Pervasive Computing applications ? to support users in their tasks by using context information ? is only p...
Stephan Urbanski, Christian Becker, Kurt Rothermel
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Pushing Doors for Modeling Contexts with OWL DL a Case Study
In this paper we present an integrated view for modeling and reasoning for context applications using OWL DL. In our case study, we describe a task driven approach to model typica...
Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Thomas Springer, Michael Berge...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
YA-TRAP: Yet Another Trivial RFID Authentication Protocol
Security and privacy in RFID systems is an important and active research area. A number of challenges arise due to the extremely limited computational, storage and communication a...
Gene Tsudik
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Situation Determination with Reusable Situation Specifications
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appr...
Graham Thomson, Sotirios Terzis, Paddy Nixon
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Dynamic Graph Algorithm for the Highly Dynamic Network Problem
A recent flooding algorithm [1] guaranteed correctness for networks with dynamic edges and fixed nodes. The algorithm provided a partial answer to the highly dynamic network (HDN)...
Edwin Soedarmadji, Robert J. McEliece
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Maximum Weighted Matching with Interference Constraints
In this paper, we study the problem of utility maximization in multi-hop wireless systems. To study the effect of wireless interference constraints on the utility maximization pro...
Gaurav Sharma, Ness B. Shroff, Ravi R. Mazumdar
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Managing Pervasive Systems using Role-based Obligation Policies
Pervasive systems are complex distributed systems containing heterogeneous and mobile devices, services and applications. Policy-based management is an effective approach for mana...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Roy H. Campbell
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Blueprint for Pervasive Self-Care Infrastructures
Self Care is a recent initiative by the Department of Health in the UK that aims to treat patients with longterm conditions sooner, nearer to home and earlier in the course of the...
George Roussos, Andy Marsh
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Unearthing Design Patterns to Support Context-Awareness
The lack of structured methodologies and software engineering efforts on designing the support of contextawareness in pervasive systems hinders the potential advantages of analyzi...
Oriana Riva, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Russo, Ki...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Dependability and Accountability for Context-aware Middleware Systems
In this paper we present a framework to provide dependability through accountability. Our proposal exploits the asymmetry present in the majority of sensor data processing to chea...
Andrew C. Rice, Alastair R. Beresford