The rise of social media sites — blogs, wikis, and Digg — underscores the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are collaboratively creating, eval...
A conversation is the global sequence of messages exchanged among the components of a distributed system. Conversations provide a promising model for specifying and analyzing the ...
Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...
Decision analytic methods are now used frequently to help articulate and structure debate and deliberations among citizens and stakeholders in societal decisions. Methods vary, bu...
This paper introduces the Perplexus hardware platform, a scalable computing substrate made of custom reconfigurable devices endowed with bio-inspired capabilities. This platform w...
Andres Upegui, Yann Thoma, Eduardo Sanchez, Andr&e...