We propose a biologically inspired and fully-decentralized approach to the organization of computation that is based on the autonomous scheduling of strongly mobile agents on a pe...
Arjav J. Chakravarti, Gerald Baumgartner, Mario La...
Ensemble is a system that uses a collection of trusted personal devices to provide proximity-based authentication in pervasive environments. Users are able to securely pair their ...
Andre Kalamandeen, Adin Scannell, Eyal de Lara, An...
Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (e.g., accelerometer, compass, GPS) and general purpose sensors (e.g., microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric sen...
Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudh...
Large-scale distributed systems have dense, complex code-bases that are assumed to perform multiple and inter-dependent tasks while user interaction is present. The way users inte...
Angelos Stavrou, Gabriela F. Cretu-Ciocarlie, Mich...
Mobile phones are becoming a convergent platform for sensing, computation, and communication. This paper envisions VUPoints, a collaborative sensing and video-recording system tha...