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PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario
Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In...
Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish L...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Capacitive Sensing Toolkit for Pervasive Activity Detection and Recognition
In this paper we present a toolkit for realizing capacitive sensing applications for human-computer interaction in pervasive computing systems. We argue that capacitive sensors - ...
Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, ...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Wall-Sized Focus Plus Context Display
In this paper we present a wall-sized input system with high accuracy input in the center and lower precision tracking on the remaining parts of the wall. This work complements th...
Sebastian Boring, Otmar Hilliges, Andreas Butz
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Dynamic Key-Updating: Privacy-Preserving Authentication for RFID Systems
The objective of private authentication for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems is to allow valid readers to explicitly authenticate their dominated tags without leaking...
Li Lu, Jinsong Han, Lei Hu, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. ...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Mining Frequent Trajectory Patterns for Activity Monitoring Using Radio Frequency Tag Arrays
Activity monitoring, a crucial task in many applications, is often conducted expensively using video cameras. Also, effectively monitoring a large field by analyzing images from m...
Yunhao Liu, Lei Chen 0002, Jian Pei, Qiuxia Chen, ...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Macro Programming through Bayesian Networks: Distributed Inference and Anomaly Detection
Macro programming a distributed system, such as a sensor network, is the ability to specify application tasks at a global level while relying on compiler-like software to translat...
Marco Mamei, Radhika Nagpal
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
SMOCK: A Self-Contained Public Key Management Scheme for Mission-Critical Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Mobile ad hoc networks show great potential in emergency response and/or recovery. Such mission-critical applications demand security service be "anywhere", "anytim...
Wenbo He, Ying Huang, Klara Nahrstedt, Whay Chiou ...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction
Although mobile services can be used ubiquitously, their employment and the interaction with them are still restricted by the constraints of mobile devices. In order to facilitate...
Gregor Broll, Sven Siorpaes, Enrico Rukzio, Massim...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Simple Model and Infrastructure for Context-Aware Browsing of the World
The imminent mass deployment of pervasive computing technologies such as sensor networks and RFID tags, together with the increasing participation of the Web community in feeding ...
Gabriella Castelli, Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Fra...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Structural Learning of Activities from Sparse Datasets
Abstract. A major challenge in pervasive computing is to learn activity patterns, such as bathing and cleaning from sensor data. Typical sensor deployments generate sparse datasets...
Fahd Albinali, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday