System engineering often states that respecting diversity during the upstream stages of a system designing is an unavoidable feature of the designing process. In the field of Infor...
We introduce the concept of neutral emergence (defined by analogy to an information theoretic view of neutral evolution), and discuss how it might be used in the engineering of ro...
Information security and privacy in the healthcare sector is an issue of growing importance. The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation,...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
Integrated architectures promise substantial technical and economic benefits in the development of distributed embedded real-time systems. In the context of diagnosis new diagnos...