Previously, the methods used by scientists to locate an earthquake epicenter were so cumbersome, even for scientists, that the epicenter location methodology needed to be simplifi...
Youwen Ouyang, Matthew Lehmann, Katherine Hayden, ...
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...
We explore a dense sensing approach that uses RFID sensor network technology to recognize human activities. In our setting, everyday objects are instrumented with UHF RFID tags ca...
Michael Buettner, Richa Prasad, Matthai Philipose,...
Managing trust is a problem of particular importance in peer-to-peer environments where one frequently encounters unknown agents. Existing methods for trust management, that are b...
Vocabulary incompatibilities arise when the terms used to index a document collection are largely unknown, or at least not well-known to the users who eventually search the collec...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Fredric C. Gey...