Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. Inspired by classical work on databases, formal definitions of the semantics of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Michal Kapa...
Designers of mobile, social systems must carefully think about how to help their users manage spatial, semantic, and social modes of navigation. Here, we describe our deployment o...
Dan Cosley, Jonathan Baxter, Soyoung Lee, Brian Al...
Recent work has examined infrastructure-mediated sensing as a practical, low-cost, and unobtrusive approach to sensing human activity in the physical world. This approach is based...
Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Tim Campbell, Conor Ha...
A key prerequisite for residential energy conservation is knowing when and where energy is being spent. Unfortunately, the current generation of energy reporting devices only prov...
Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Ma...
Mobile privacy concerns are central to Ubicomp and yet remain poorly understood. We advocate a diversified approach, enabling the cross-interpretation of data from complementary m...
Clara Mancini, Keerthi Thomas, Yvonne Rogers, Blai...