PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2012-05-10DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197510
C. Osterwalder
{"title":"Keynote: Google and privacy","authors":"C. Osterwalder","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197510","url":null,"abstract":"Cyrill Osterwalder has been the privacy engineering lead at Google since 2010. His responsibilities at Google include ensuring that effective privacy controls are built into products and internal practices. Before Google, Cyrill was Vice President of the web application security division at Phion. Phion acquired the Web application security company Visonys in 2008 which Cyrill co-founded. Cyrill has a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich with a focus on information security and cryptography, as well as a minor degree in business administration.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125154406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2012-03-19DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197478
K. Aberer
{"title":"Keynote: OpenSense: Open sensor networks for air quality monitoring","authors":"K. Aberer","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197478","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks and publishing of sensor data on the Internet bear the potential to substantially increase public awareness and involvement in environmental sustainability. Air pollution monitoring in urban areas is a prime example of such an application as common air pollutants have direct effect on the human health. However, bringing the vision of public involvement in environmental monitoring to a reality poses today substantial technical challenges for the communication and information systems infrastructure, to scale up from isolated well controlled systems to an open and scalable infrastructure. In this talk we provide first an overview of the OpenSense project for air pollution monitoring. OpenSense takes a holistic, end-to-end systems perspective. The crucial insight is that in designing open scalable sensing system one has to consider dependencies among many system dimensions both for modelling and control, including sensor behaviour, wireless networks, mobility, environmental models, user needs as well as trust and privacy concerns. In the second part of the talk we will discuss in more detail aspects of sensor data processing relevant to the OpenSense project. We will introduce model-based methods for sensor data cleaning, segmentation and multi-query processing. We will show a framework to extract semantic activity information from trajectory data and finally provide some initial results on studying the tradeoffs between privacy and sensor data accuracy in community sensing settings. Finally we will provide an outlook on some of our next steps we plan to undertake within OpenSense towards realizing a community-based approach for addressing health concerns of urban populations.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130504157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2012-03-19DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197479
F. Zambonelli
{"title":"Keynote: Mobility in socio-technical urban organisms: From sensing to steering","authors":"F. Zambonelli","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197479","url":null,"abstract":"I discuss how future urban environments will be sorts of immense socio-technical organisms, in which it will be possible, other than sensing urban mobility patterns, to dynamically steer mobility towards the emergence of specific patterns.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"32 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122963361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2012-03-19DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197491
G. Picco
{"title":"Keynote: Of towers, tunnels, animals, and wireless sensor networks: From research to the real world - And back","authors":"G. Picco","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197491","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been around for more than a decade. Although the research community has become increasingly aware of the importance of real-world deployments, however, the latter represent a tiny fraction of the literature on WSNs. Moreover, of these few real-world experiences, those reporting about long-term, operational systems are themselves a small fraction of the total. In this talk, I will present past and ongoing research from my research group (http://d3s.disi.unitn.it), revolving around real-world WSN deployments targeting real needs. These include: the long-term structural health monitoring of a medieval tower; the closed-loop control of adaptive lighting in an operational road tunnel; the understanding of social behavior of wildlife. In these experiences, we started by applying pre-existing results and tools. However, the real world is often more creative than researchers, and it pushed our research agenda in unexpected directions. The talk gives a brief account of the research roller-coaster we experienced in the last few years.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128772242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2012-03-19DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197459
Sajal K. Das
{"title":"Pervasive computing vs. cyber-physical systems: A perspective from smart environments","authors":"Sajal K. Das","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197459","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid advancements in smartphones, wireless sensors and mobile communications have led to the development of cyber-physical systems, pervasive computing and smart environments with important applications in environmental, civilian, military, industry, and government sectors. Sensor networks and smartphones play significant roles in this context as they not only act as effective interface between physical and cyber worlds, but also bring in human social aspects. However, increasing scale and heterogeneity at all levels — users, devices, networking and computing technologies, information and services — implies a high degree of uncertainty in distributed control and operations of pervasive and cyber-physical systems, thereby posing significant challenges in providing desired information quality, assurance, and reliability for intelligent decision making. This is particularly important for critical applications like smart health care and pervasive security. This talk will examine uncertainty-driven unique challenges and opportunities in cyber-physical and pervasive computing systems and their inter-winding relationships with smart environments. The talk will be concluded with provocative thoughts, open issues and future directions of research.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"227 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123523261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2010-10-26DOI: 10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197472
C. Becker
{"title":"Keynote: The operating system for the computer of the 21st century","authors":"C. Becker","doi":"10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComW.2012.6197472","url":null,"abstract":"Weiser's vision of Ubiquitous Computing has inspired many researchers and an active research community has been established in the past years. Various aspects have been investigated from novel user interfaces, applications to specialized hardware devices and system software helping application developers utilizing the capabilities of a smart world. In my talk I want to address the challenges researchers have addressed in the past. Based on a number of products and prototypes I will identify the problems where concepts and solutions exist and will also highlight open research challenges with a focus on adaptation and self-organization.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115342252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2010-05-24DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470568
T. R. Silva
{"title":"On the resolution of conflicts for collective pervasive context-aware applications","authors":"T. R. Silva","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470568","url":null,"abstract":"Context-aware applications use information related to entities (objects, people or environment) of interest to adapt themselves with the aim of increasing users' satisfaction. The pervasive computing domain has a natural connection with context-awareness, since contexts help such systems on providing personalization and automation of services.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126501263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2010-03-01DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470586
D. Cook, M. Weber
{"title":"First IEEE International Workshop on Smart Environments SmartE 2010: Message from the workshop chairs","authors":"D. Cook, M. Weber","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2010.5470586","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the First IEEE International Workshop on Smart Environments, SmartE. It is our goal that this workshop would serve as a forum for researchers and developers in the area of smart environments to present results and to discuss ways in which we can advance this field. The workshop focuses on the theme of smart environments, in which smart homes, smart workplaces, and other spaces with which humans interact take on the role of intelligent agents. Smart environments inherently integrate ideas, tools, and expertise from a variety of disciplines including ambient intelligence, middleware, wearable sensors, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and social computing.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131022061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2009-03-09DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.53
Chansu Yu, B. Hamdaoui
{"title":"Message from the Workshop Co-Chairs","authors":"Chansu Yu, B. Hamdaoui","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.53","url":null,"abstract":"It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to Galveston, Texas and the 2009 IEEE PerCom Workshop on pervasive wireless networking (PWN09). Wireless connectivity, mobility support, location awareness, and integration of wireless networks to the Internet are key research challenges in pervasive computing and communications. With the advent of inexpensive wireless solutions such as WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and RFID, a number of challenges arise when these protocols are applied to wireless PAN, home networking, wireless LANs, wireless mesh networks, wireless MANs, and wireless broadband. Exploitation of emerging wireless technologies such as transmit power and rate control, spectral agility, adaptive carrier sensing, cooperative communication as well as application of existing technologies to new applications such as wireless mesh networks and sensor networks are emerging, important research areas. Therefore, we are pleased to present twelve high-quality papers contributing to the theory, practice, and evaluation of wireless networks for pervasive computing. We would like to congratulate the authors of accepted papers and also express our gratitude to the Program Committee members for their wonderful job in helping us field an excellent set of papers for the workshop. This year, among those accepted papers, we have a number of invited papers in the emerging areas of pervasive wireless networking, and would like to thank these authors for accepting our invitation. We hope that participants of PWN09 hear about up-to-date issues and challenges in pervasive wireless networking area and find the workshop more useful for their future research. Once again, we hope you enjoy this collection of papers and wish all of you a pleasant stay in Galveston, Texas.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133745134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PerCom WorkshopsPub Date : 2005-03-08DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.41
E. Hamilton, R. Cole, Wayne H. Ward, Chris DiGiano, D. LaBine
{"title":"Interactive Pathway for Learning Design through Agent and Library Augmented Shared Knowledge Areas (ALASKA)","authors":"E. Hamilton, R. Cole, Wayne H. Ward, Chris DiGiano, D. LaBine","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2005.41","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines a recently funded NSF-funded effort to integrate three learning technologies (perceptual agents; collaborative workspaces; and digital libraries). Each has emerged and matured over the past decade and each has presented compelling and oftentimes moving opportunities to alter educational practice and to render learning more effective. The project seeks a novel way to blend these technologies and to create and test a new model for human-machine partnership in learning settings. The innovation we are prototyping in this project creates an applet-rich shared space whereby a pedagogical agent at each learner's station functions as an instructional assistant to the teacher or professor and tutor to the student. The platform is intended to open a series of new - and instructionally potent nteractive pathways.","PeriodicalId":448199,"journal":{"name":"PerCom Workshops","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131103749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}