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  <title><![CDATA[Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA)]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/1/Context-Broker-Architecture-CoBrA-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting rooms, smart homes, and smart vehicles). Central to this architecture is an intelligent agent called  context broker that maintains a shared model of context on the behalf of a community of agents, services, and devices in the space and provides privacy protections for the users in the space by enforcing the policy rules that they define.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/79/Context-Aware-Surgical-Training">
  <title><![CDATA[Context-Aware Surgical Training]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/79/Context-Aware-Surgical-Training</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We propose to design and implement a prototype context aware surgical training environment (CAST) as part of the University of Maryland Surgical Simulation Training Center (SIMCenter).  This system will be used to explore the role that an intelligent pervasive computing environment can play to enhance the training of surgery students, residents and specialists.  The research will build on prior work on context aware “smart spaces” done at UMBC, leverage our experience in working with RFID...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-01-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/39/Intelligent-Personal-Agent">
  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Personal Agent]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/39/Intelligent-Personal-Agent</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Objective. The objective is to develop a personal agent that can provide and maintain the contextual information about a user. Acting as a record-keeper, this agent tracks a user's context by acquiring information from external sources (e.g., the context brokers in different smart spaces). Acting as an information provider, this agent shares the updated context information about a user with systems that attempt to provide services to the user. 

We assume the users are willing to share ce...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-11-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[MoGATU: Data Management in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/2/MoGATU-Data-Management-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The past few years have seen significant work in mobile data management, typically based on the client/proxy/server model. Mobile/wireless devices are treated as clients that are data consumers only, while data sources are on servers that typically reside on the wired network. With the advent of pervasive computing environments, an alternative scenario arises where mobile devices gather and exchange data from not just wired sources, but also from their ethereal environment and one another. Th...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Presence Monitoring System]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/project/html/id/40/Presence-Monitoring-System</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Objective. The objective is to develop a distributed system that is capable of monitoring user presence in an office environment and reporting the updated information to the registered context brokers. This monitoring system will use different sensing techniques to detect user presence, for example, detecting the network connections made by Bluetooth devices, monitoring user logins on the UNIX servers and desktop computers, reading the RFID tags attached to the devices that a user carries, an...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-11-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/415/A-Framework-for-Secure-Knowledge-Management-in-Pervasive-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[A Framework for Secure Knowledge Management in Pervasive Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/415/A-Framework-for-Secure-Knowledge-Management-in-Pervasive-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[A feature common to many pervasive computing scenarios is that devices acquire information about their environment from peers through short-range ad-hoc wireless connections and use it to maintain a model of their current context. A fundamental issue in such situations, is that knowledge obtained from peer devices may vary in reliability with devices providing incorrect data either inadvertently out of ignorance or other limitations or intentionally in pursuit of malicious or self-serving goa...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2008-11-03</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/361/A-Pervasive-Computing-System-for-the-Operating-Room-of-the-Future">
  <title><![CDATA[A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/361/A-Pervasive-Computing-System-for-the-Operating-Room-of-the-Future</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a prototype Context Aware Perioperative Information System to capture and interpret data in an operating room of the future. The captured data is used to construct the context of the surgical procedure and detect medically significant events. Such events, and other state information, are used to automatically construct an ElectronicMedical Encounter Record (EMR). The EMR records and correlates significant medical data and video streams with an inferred higher-level event model of ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-08-26</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/339/A-Pervasive-Computing-System-for-the-Operating-Room-of-the-Future">
  <title><![CDATA[A Pervasive Computing System for the Operating Room of the Future]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/339/A-Pervasive-Computing-System-for-the-Operating-Room-of-the-Future</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a prototype Context Aware Perioperative
Information System to capture and interpret data in an
operating room of the future. The captured data is used to
construct the context of the surgical procedure and detect
medically significant events. Such events, and other state
information, are used to automatically construct an
Electronic edical Encounter Record (EMR).  The EMR records
and correlates significant medical data and video streams
with an inferred higher-level event ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Protecting the privacy of RFID tags]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/341/Protecting-the-privacy-of-RFID-tags</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an
emerging wireless technology with many potential applications,
including supply chain management, personnel
tracking and point of sale checkout. Its wide spread
adoption raises concerns about known security and privacy
vulnerabilities, including the ability of rogue RFID readers
to access the unique identifier and data of RFID tags. To
prevent the eavesdropping of tag through communication
channel, methods like one-way hashing, cryptography ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/306/A-Data-Intensive-Reputation-Management-Scheme-for-Vehicular-Ad-Hoc-Networks">
  <title><![CDATA[A Data Intensive Reputation Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/306/A-Data-Intensive-Reputation-Management-Scheme-for-Vehicular-Ad-Hoc-Networks</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In vehicular ad hoc networks individual vehicles can help each
other locate resources and establish trustworthiness under highly dynamic 
conditions, lacking any centralized trust authority. To ascertain
the accuracy and reliability of data aggregated in a distributed manner,
we present a reputation management system for such networks that enables 
devices to quickly adapt to changing local conditions and provides a 
bootstrapping method for establishing trust relationships where only ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-07-21</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/312/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Records">
  <title><![CDATA[Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Records]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/312/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Records</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a prototype system to capture and interpret data in a perioper-
ative environment in order to construct an Electronic Medical Encounter Record
(EMR). The EMR records and correlates significant medical data and video streams
with an inferred higher-level event model of the surgery. Information from Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) tags provides basic context information including
the presence of medical staff, devices, instruments and medication in the operating
room (OR...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-07-19</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/305/Querying-in-Packs-Trustworthy-Data-Management-in-Ad-Hoc-Networks">
  <title><![CDATA[Querying in Packs: Trustworthy Data Management in Ad Hoc Networks]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/305/Querying-in-Packs-Trustworthy-Data-Management-in-Ad-Hoc-Networks</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a trust-based data management framework enabling mobile devices to access the distributed computation, storage, and sensory resources available in pervasive computing environments. Available resources include those in the fixed surrounding infrastructure as well as services offered by other nearby mobile devices. We take a holistic approach that considers data trust, security, and privacy and focus on the collaborative mechanisms providing a trustworthy data management platform in...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-06-09</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/338/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Encounter-Records">
  <title><![CDATA[Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/338/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Encounter-Records</link>
  <description><![CDATA[An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a medical record or any other
information relating to the past, present or future physical and
mental health, or condition of a patient which resides in computers
for the primary purpose of providing health care and health-related
services.

 EHRs improve clinical quality by providing ready access to all
relevant clinical information at the time of the patient encounter or
phone call, receipt of clinical alerts at the point of care, the
ability to...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-03</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/340/Protecting-the-privacy-of-RFID-tags">
  <title><![CDATA[Protecting the privacy of RFID tags]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/340/Protecting-the-privacy-of-RFID-tags</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is being extensively used for a large number of applications, which includes supply chain management (SCM). One among the major privacy concerns is the ability of rogue RFID readers to access the unique identifier of RFID tags. To prevent the eavesdropping of tag through communication channel, methods like one-way hashing, cryptography and one-time pads have been used; however these methods do not prevent the clandestine tracking of tags using their uniq...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-01</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/321/Toward-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Toward Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/321/Toward-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to describe service groups and use this semantic informa...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-02-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Rule-based and Ontology-based Policies: Toward a Hybrid Approach to Control Agents in Pervasive Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/274/Rule-based-and-Ontology-based-Policies-Toward-a-Hybrid-Approach-to-Control-Agents-in-Pervasive-Environments-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Policies are being increasingly used for controlling the behavior of
complex multi-agent systems. The use of policies allows administrators to regulate
agent behavior without changing source code or requiring the consent or
cooperation of the agents being governed. However, policy-based control can
sometimes encounter difficulties when applied to agents that act in pervasive
environments characterized by frequent and unpredictable changes. In such cases,
we cannot always specify policie...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-11-07</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/238/The-SOUPA-Ontology-for-Pervasive-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[The SOUPA Ontology for Pervasive Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/238/The-SOUPA-Ontology-for-Pervasive-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This paper describes SOUPA (Standard Ontology for Ubiquitous
and Pervasive Applications) and the use of this ontology in building the Con-
text Broker Architecture (CoBrA). CoBrA is a new agent architecture for
supporting pervasive context-aware systems in a smart space environment.
The SOUPA ontology is expressed using the Web Ontology Language OWL
and includes modular component vocabularies to represent intelligent agents
with associated beliefs, desire, and intentions, time, space, e...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-07-01</dc:date>
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  <title><![CDATA[Policy-based Access Control for Task Computing Using Rei]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/220/Policy-based-Access-Control-for-Task-Computing-Using-Rei-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In this paper, we describe a policy-based access control
implementation for Task Computing using the Rei policy engine.  Task
Computing lets ordinary end-users accomplish complex tasks on the fly
from an open, dynamic, and distributed "universe of network-accessible
resources" in ubiquitous computing environments as well as those on
the Internet.  The Rei policy specification language is an expressive
and extensible language based on Semantic Web technologies. The Rei
policy engine rea...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-05-10</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/175/Service-Composition-for-Mobile-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Service Composition for Mobile Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/175/Service-Composition-for-Mobile-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Service Composition, that is, the development of customized services by discovering, integrating and  executing
existing services has received a lot of attention in the last couple of years with respect to wired-infrastructure or Internet web services.
With the advancement in the wireless technology and rapid deployment of
mobile devices, we envision that in the near future wirelessly connected mobile devices in
a given vicinity will also provide services that can be leveraged in the comp...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-01-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/212/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/212/An-Intelligent-Broker-Architecture-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context-aware systems exploit the use of situational information, or context, to provide relevant  information and services to users. A great challenge remains in defining an architecture that supports context-aware systems. Critical research issues include modeling and reasoning (how to represent  contextual information for machine processing and reasoning), knowledge sharing (how to enable agents to acquire consistent knowledge from unreliable sensors and agents), and user privacy protectio...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-12-14</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/201/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-Smart-Spaces">
  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Agents Meet the Semantic Web in Smart Spaces]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/201/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-Smart-Spaces</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a smart meeting room system called EasyMeeting that explores the use of multi-agent systems, Semantic Web ontologies, reasoning, and declarative policies for security and privacy. Building on a earlier pervasive computing system, EasyMeeting provides relevant services and information to meeting participants based on their situational needs. Our system exploits the context-aware support provided by the Context Broker Architecture (Cobra). Cobra's intelligent broker agent maintains ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-11-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/156/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Semantic-Web-in-a-Smart-Meeting-Room">
  <title><![CDATA[Intelligent Agents Meet Semantic Web in a Smart Meeting Room]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/156/Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Semantic-Web-in-a-Smart-Meeting-Room</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe a new smart meeting room system called
EasyMeeting that explores the use of FIPA agent technologies,
Semantic Web ontologies, logic reasoning, and security
and privacy policies. Building on a pervasive computing
system that we have developed previously, EasyMeeting
can provide relevant services and information to meeting
participants based on their situational needs. Our system
exploits the context-aware support provided by the Context
Broker Architecture (CoBrA). Central ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-19</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/187/Towards-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/187/Towards-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol
is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding
of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are
described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to
describe service groups and use this semantic inf...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/182/A-Pervasive-Computing-Ontology-for-User-Privacy-Protection-in-the-Context-Broker-Architecture">
  <title><![CDATA[A Pervasive Computing Ontology for User Privacy Protection in the Context Broker Architecture]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/182/A-Pervasive-Computing-Ontology-for-User-Privacy-Protection-in-the-Context-Broker-Architecture</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Privacy protection is a key requirement for the future pervasive computing systems. This paper describes the design and implementation of a privacy protection framework that exploits the SOUPA policy ontology and its associated policy reasoning algorithm. The SOUPA policy ontology expressed in the Web Ontology Language OWL allows users to define policy rules to permit or forbid actions that attempt to access the users' private information. Central to the policy reasoning algorithm is the use ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/60/An-Ontology-for-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/60/An-Ontology-for-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Ontologies are a key component for building open
and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems
in which agents and devices share contextual
information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology
Language OWL and other tools for building
the foundation ontology for the Context Broker Architecture
(CoBrA), a new context-aware pervasive
computing framework. The current version of the
CoBrA ontology models the basic concepts of people,
agents, places, and presentation events in an
i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-05-31</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/143/A-Context-Broker-for-Building-Smart-Meeting-Rooms">
  <title><![CDATA[A Context Broker for Building Smart Meeting Rooms]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/143/A-Context-Broker-for-Building-Smart-Meeting-Rooms</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Building smart meeting rooms requires the support of
a computing system architecture. In this paper, we
describe the Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA), a
broker-centric agent architecture for pervasive contextaware
systems. CoBrA exploits theWeb Ontology Language
OWL for supporting knowledge sharing and data
fusion, uses logic inferences for resolving and detecting
inconsistent context knowledge, and provides users
with a policy language to control their private information.
Centra...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-03-20</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/178/Pervasive-Enablement-of-Business-Processes">
  <title><![CDATA[Pervasive Enablement of Business Processes]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/178/Pervasive-Enablement-of-Business-Processes</link>
  <description><![CDATA[People are an important part of many business processes. Current workflow-based implementations of business processes constrain users to the desktop environment; require them to periodically check for pending tasks; and do not support direct or synchronous people-to-people interaction. On the other hand, the wide spectrum of people collaboration tools ranging from telephones to instant messaging and to email have no provision for structured collaboration and are separate from business process...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-01-31</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/329/Semantic-Tuple-Spaces-A-Coordination">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/329/Semantic-Tuple-Spaces-A-Coordination</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The vision of the Semantic Web expands on the vision of the WWW by associating accessible formal semantics with content and services, and where web pages, databases, personal devices and home appliances are all producers and consumers of information. In a Pervasive Computing environment the user interacts with his environment as opposed to a specific device. Important research challenges in such an environment include auto-configuration of entities, context-sensitive behavior and the creation...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-01-26</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/37/A-Secure-Infrastructure-for-Service-Discovery-and-Access-in-Pervasive-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[A Secure Infrastructure for Service Discovery and Access in Pervasive Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/37/A-Secure-Infrastructure-for-Service-Discovery-and-Access-in-Pervasive-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Security is paramount to the success of pervasive computing environments. The system presented in this paper provides a communications and security infrastructure that goes far in advancing the goal of anywhere - anytime computing. Our work securely enables clients to access and utilize services in heterogeneous networks. We provide a service registration and discovery mechanism implemented
through a hierarchy of service management. The system is built upon a simplified Public Key Infrastruc...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/78/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker for Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/78/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[We describe Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) – a new
architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart
spaces. Our architecture explores the use of Semantic Web
languages for defining and publishing a context ontology,
for sharing information about a context and for reasoning
over such information. Central to our architecture is a broker
agent that maintains a shared model of the context for all
computing entities in the space and enforces the privacy policies
defined by...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/77/Semantic-Web-in-a-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Architecture">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Web in a Pervasive Context-Aware Architecture]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/77/Semantic-Web-in-a-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Architecture</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This document describes a new approach that explores the
use of Semantic Web languages in building an architecture
for supporting context-aware systems. This new architecture
called Context Broker Architecture (CoBrA) differs
from other architectures in using theWeb Ontlogy Language
OWL for modeling ontologies of context and for supporting
context reasoning. Central to our architecture is a broker
agent that maintains a shared model of context for all computing
entities in the space a...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/76/Semantic-Tuple-Spaces-A-Coordination-Infrastructure-in-Mobile-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination Infrastructure in Mobile Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/76/Semantic-Tuple-Spaces-A-Coordination-Infrastructure-in-Mobile-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Tuple Spaces offer a coordination infrastructure for communication between autonomous entities by providing a logically shared memory along with data persistence, transactional security as well as temporal and spatial decoupling — properties that make it desirable in distributed systems for e-commerce and pervasive computing applications. In most Tuple Space implementations, tuples are retrieved by employing type-value matching of ordered tuples, object-based polymorphic matching, or XML-st...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-09-30</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/129/An-Ontology-for-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[An Ontology for Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/129/An-Ontology-for-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Ontologies are a key component for building open
and dynamic distributed pervasive computing systems
in which agents and devices share contextual
information. We describe our use of the Web Ontology
Language OWL and other tools for building
the foundation ontology for the Context Broker Architecture
(CoBrA), a new context-aware pervasive
computing framework. The current version of the
CoBrA ontology models the basic concepts of people,
agents, places, and presentation events in an
i...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-08-09</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/177/Towards-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Towards Distributed Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/177/Towards-Distributed-Service-Discovery-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for pervasive environments. The protocol is based on the concepts of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to be registered with a registry or lookup server. Services are described using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of OWL to describe service groups and use this semantic informa...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-06-11</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/116/A-Policy-Language-for-A-Pervasive-Computing-Environment">
  <title><![CDATA[A Policy Language for A Pervasive Computing Environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/116/A-Policy-Language-for-A-Pervasive-Computing-Environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In this paper we describe a policy language designed
for pervasive computing applications that is based on deontic
concepts and grounded in a semantic language. The
pervasive computing environments under consideration are
those in which people and devices are mobile and use various
wireless networking technologies to discover and access
services and devices in their vicinity. Such pervasive
environments lend themselves to policy-based security due
to their extremely dynamic nature. Us...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-06-04</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/127/P2P-M-Commerce-in-Pervasive-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[P2P M-Commerce in Pervasive Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/127/P2P-M-Commerce-in-Pervasive-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Pervasive environments are characterized by the presence of wireless devices ranging from sensors to mobile PDA-phones to laptops. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) information sharing in such environments presents a tremendous opportunity for people and devices to exchange information such as music, pictures, documents and stock tickers with peers. Information that has a monetary value introduces a whole new set of problems for P2P interaction in pervasive environments. In this work, we present the design ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-01-28</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/125/On-Experiments-with-a-Transport-Protocol-for-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[On Experiments with a Transport Protocol for Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/125/On-Experiments-with-a-Transport-Protocol-for-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[It is well-known that TCP performs poorly in a wireless environment. This paper presents an empirical performance analysis of TCP on cellular digital packet data, Bluetooth and wireless LAN. We also present CentaurusComm, a message based transport protocol designed to perform well in low bandwidth networks and resource poor devices. In particular, CentaurusComm is optimized to handle data exchanges consisting of short message sizes. The application used to perform all the experiments is typic...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-11-28</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/42/A-Security-Architecture-Based-on-Trust-Management-for-Pervasive-Computing-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[A Security Architecture Based on Trust Management for Pervasive Computing Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/42/A-Security-Architecture-Based-on-Trust-Management-for-Pervasive-Computing-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, stand-alone computers and small networks rely on
user authentication and access control to provide security. These
physical methods use system-based controls to verify the identity
of a person or process, explicitly enabling or restricting the ability
to use, change, or view a computer resource. However, these
strategies are inadequate for the increased flexibility that distributed
networks such as the Internet and ubiquitous/pervasive computing
environments require, as ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-10-09</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/132/GSD-A-Novel-Group-based-Service-Discovery-Protocol-for-MANETs">
  <title><![CDATA[GSD: A Novel Group-based Service Discovery Protocol for MANETs]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/132/GSD-A-Novel-Group-based-Service-Discovery-Protocol-for-MANETs</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This paper proposes a novel distributed service discovery protocol for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. The protocol is based on the concept of peer-to-peer caching of service advertisements and group-based intelligent forwarding of service requests. It does not require a service to register to a registry or lookup server. Services are described using an ontology based on the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML+OIL). We exploit the semantic class/subClass hierarchy of DAML to describe service groups and...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-09-09</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/38/Profile-Driven-Data-Management-for-Pervasive-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Profile Driven Data Management for Pervasive Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/38/Profile-Driven-Data-Management-for-Pervasive-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The past few years have seen significant work in mobile data management,
typically based on the client/proxy/server model. Mobile/wireless devices
are treated as clients that are data consumers only, while data sources are on
servers that typically reside on the wired network. With the advent of "pervasive
computing" environments an alternative scenario arises where mobile devices
gather and exchange data from not just wired sources, but also from their ethereal
environment and one anot...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-09-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/54/Vigil-Providing-Trust-for-Enhanced-Security-in-Pervasive-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[Vigil: Providing Trust for Enhanced Security in Pervasive Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/54/Vigil-Providing-Trust-for-Enhanced-Security-in-Pervasive-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Computing today is moving away from the desktop, becoming diffused into our surroundings and onto
our personal digital devices. Moreover, ad-hoc networks such as Bluetooth provide for spontaneous connectivity
between computationally enabled devices within proximity to each other. In such pervasive computing
environments, users expect to access resources and services at any time from anywhere. This expectation
results in serious security issues, since devices are constantly interacting wit...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-08-12</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/81/Beyond-Distributed-AI-Agent-Teamwork-in-Ubiquitous-Computing">
  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Distributed AI, Agent Teamwork in Ubiquitous Computing]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/81/Beyond-Distributed-AI-Agent-Teamwork-in-Ubiquitous-Computing</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Agent teamwork has been widely studied in the fields of
Distributed AI. Much success has been achieved in defining
agent teamwork theory to explain how agents should act
together as a team and in developing programming frameworks
to simulate team coordinations in software environment.
With the advent of ubiquitous computing technology,
agent teamwork research will be pushed to its limit, facing
new challenges in an open environment with a higher degree
of uncertainty. The objective of...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2002-07-16</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/119/Trust-Based-Security-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Trust-Based Security in Pervasive Computing Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/119/Trust-Based-Security-in-Pervasive-Computing-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Traditionally, stand-alone computers and small networks rely on user authentication and access control to provide security. These physical methods use system-based controls to verify the identity of a person or process, explicitly enabling or restricting the ability to use, change, or view a computer resource. However, these strategies are inadequate for the increased flexibility that distributed networks such as the Internet and pervasive computing environments require because such systems l...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-12-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/82/Creating-Context-Aware-Software-Agents">
  <title><![CDATA[Creating Context-Aware Software Agents]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/82/Creating-Context-Aware-Software-Agents</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Sharing ontologies, sensing context and reasoning are crucial to the
realization of context-aware software agents. This document de-
scribes our efforts in using the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
and Prolog Forward Chaining (Pfc) system to provide support for
ontology sharing and reasoning in the CoolAgent Recommendation System
(CoolAgent RS), a context-aware multi-agent system. We also describes
the implementation of the CoolAgent RS document and cuisine
recommendation services...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-26</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/113/Information-Agents-for-Mobile-and-Embedded-Devices">
  <title><![CDATA[Information Agents for Mobile and Embedded Devices]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/113/Information-Agents-for-Mobile-and-Embedded-Devices</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The pervasive computing environments of the near future will involve the interactions, coordination and cooperation of numerous, casually accessible, and often invisible computing devices. These devices, whether carried on our person or embedded in our homes, businesses and classrooms, will connect via wireless and wired links to one another and to the global networking infrastructure. The result will be a networking milieu with a new level of openness. The localized and dynamic nature of the...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-09-06</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/122/Centaurus-A-Framework-for-Intelligent-Services-in-a-Mobile-Environment">
  <title><![CDATA[Centaurus : A Framework for Intelligent Services in a Mobile Environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/122/Centaurus-A-Framework-for-Intelligent-Services-in-a-Mobile-Environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[In an age where wirelessly networked appliances and devices
are becoming commonplace, there is a necessity for
connecting them to work together for a mobile user. The
design outlined in this paper provides an infrastructure and
communication protocol for providing ’smart’ services to
these mobile devices. This flexible framework allows any
medium to be used for communication between the system
and the portable device, including infra-red, and BlueTooth.
Using Extensible Markup Lan...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-04-01</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/83/Dynamic-Service-Discovery-for-Mobile-Computing-Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Jini-in-the-Aether">
  <title><![CDATA[Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/paper/html/id/83/Dynamic-Service-Discovery-for-Mobile-Computing-Intelligent-Agents-Meet-Jini-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The emergence of ad-hoc pervasive connectivity for devices
based on Bluetooth-like systems provides a new way to create applications for mobile systems. We seek to realize ubiquitous computing systems based on the cooperation of autonomous, dynamic and adaptive components (hardware as
well as software) which are located in vicinity of one another.
In this paper we present this vision. We also describe a prototype system we have developed that implements parts of
this vision { in particula...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2001-02-28</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/12/A-Proposal-for-Pervasive-Computing-Standard-Ontology">
  <title><![CDATA[A Proposal for Pervasive Computing Standard Ontology]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/12/A-Proposal-for-Pervasive-Computing-Standard-Ontology</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This document describes a proposal for defining a standard ontology for supporting knowledge sharing and communication interoperability in pervasive computing applications.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-06</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/75/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[An Intelligent Broker for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/75/An-Intelligent-Broker-for-Pervasive-Context-Aware-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Presentation slides used in Harry Chen's PhD dissertation defense.

Context-aware systems exploit the use of situational information, or context, to provide relevant information and services to users. A great challenge remains in defining an architecture that supports context-aware systems. Critical research issues include modeling and reasoning (how to represent contextual information for machine processing and reasoning), knowledge sharing (how to enable agents to acquire consistent knowl...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-12-07</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/1/CoBrA">
  <title><![CDATA[CoBrA]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/1/CoBrA</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The Context Broker Architecture Web Site]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-15</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/181/Context-Aware-Surgical-Training-Environment">
  <title><![CDATA[Context Aware Surgical Training Environment]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/181/Context-Aware-Surgical-Training-Environment</link>
  <description><![CDATA[As part of the University of Maryland Medical School’s Operating Room of the Future Project we are developing a prototype context aware surgical training environment (CAST).  This facility will become part of the University of Maryland Surgical Simula-tion Training Center (SIMCenter) being built in Baltimore.  The CAST system will be used to explore the role that an intelligent pervasive computing environment can play to enhance the training of surgery students, residents and specialists.  ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-06-19</dc:date>
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 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/2/MoGATU">
  <title><![CDATA[MoGATU]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/2/MoGATU</link>
  <description><![CDATA[MoGATU's web site]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-16</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/201/pervasive-and-wearable-computing-research">
  <title><![CDATA[pervasive and wearable computing research]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/201/pervasive-and-wearable-computing-research</link>
  <description><![CDATA[An overview of some pervasive and wearavble computing research at UMBC.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/13/Semantic-Web-in-UbiComp-SIG">
  <title><![CDATA[Semantic Web in UbiComp SIG]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/13/Semantic-Web-in-UbiComp-SIG</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Discussing the use of semantic web technologies (e.g., SW ontologies, SW languages RDF, RDFS, DAML+OWL, OWL, and ontology reasoners) in supporting ubiquitous computing systems.

This is an open discussion group. Related news and announcement posts are also welcome.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-12-16</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/16/What-comes-next-">
  <title><![CDATA[What comes next?]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/16/What-comes-next-</link>
  <description><![CDATA[An overview of some of the research the ebiquity group is engaged in, focusing on pervasive computing.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-02-17</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/199/A-new-look-at-old-age-technology-longevity-and-how-we-will-live-tomorrow">
  <title><![CDATA[A new look at old age: technology, longevity and how we will live tomorrow]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/199/A-new-look-at-old-age-technology-longevity-and-how-we-will-live-tomorrow</link>
  <description><![CDATA[This talk will examine the development of innovative technologies in MIT's lab, including bio-sensor clothing designed to monitor the wearer's health conditions, gadgets that remind older adults to take their medication and the "Aware Car," a vehicle equipped with warning systems and safety features designed for older drivers.  The MIT AgeLab was created by the school's Engineering Systems Division in 1999 to develop technological innovations that will affect everyday living for older people....]]></description>
  <dc:date>2007-04-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/179/Context-Spaces-Approach-to-Building-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Systems">
  <title><![CDATA[Context-Spaces Approach to Building Context-Aware Pervasive Computing Systems]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/179/Context-Spaces-Approach-to-Building-Context-Aware-Pervasive-Computing-Systems</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Context-awareness is essential for reactive and proactive behavior of pervasive an mobile computing systems. This talk concentrates on a context-spaces approach to representing, managing and reasoning about context and respective situations. Maintaining stability of pervasive computing systems will also be presented. A short overview of a variety of projects in mobile/pervasive/wireless computing and networking will also be presented. A brief overview of a Monash-wide initiative CoolCampus wi...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-10-13</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/172/TradeWise">
  <title><![CDATA[TradeWise]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/172/TradeWise</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Olga's Internship at GE - Pervasive Decisioning Systems Lab(PDS).

Olga's internship involved designing and developing and electronic
marketplace for owner operated small tractor trailer fleet. The system
provided comprehensive solution to personalized load discovery, valuation
of loads according to the drive's preferences and bidding for the loads.
The system also provided long term solutions that would in the
personalized manner optimize driver's portfolio.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-09-12</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/163/Community-web-and-social-networks">
  <title><![CDATA[Community web and social networks]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/163/Community-web-and-social-networks</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Yutaka
Matsuo and Hideaki
Takeda will discuss their work on supporting communitys
on the Web.


The Web is not used just for information publishing but also
communication.  We model web as an infrastructure to support
human activities on information and communication, i.e.,
community web. In order to explore this concept, we are
investigating various possibilities of web from extension of
weblog to web mining.

We introduce social network extraction from the Web and its
applicat...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-07-13</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/152/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Encounter-Records">
  <title><![CDATA[Context-Aware System to Create Electronic Medical Encounter Records]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/152/Context-Aware-System-to-Create-Electronic-Medical-Encounter-Records</link>
  <description><![CDATA[An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a medical record or any other information relating to the past, present or future physical and mental health, or condition of a patient which resides in computers for the primary purpose of providing health care and health-related services.

    EHRs improve clinical quality by providing ready access to all relevant clinical information at the time of the patient encounter or phone call, receipt of clinical alerts at the point of care, the ability to ...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-05-03</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/135/A-cost-effective-approach-to-protecting-RFID-tag-identity">
  <title><![CDATA[A cost-effective approach to protecting RFID tag identity]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/135/A-cost-effective-approach-to-protecting-RFID-tag-identity</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) is an emerging technology. Despite
formidable security vulnerabilities, RFID finds applications from supply
chain management to tracking personnel. A rogue RFID reader being able to
query a RFID tag for its unique identifier or eavesdrop on the identifier is
a major security concern. One-way hashing, cryptography and one-time pads
are among some of the methods being used to secure this channel. Most of
these methods involve the use of expensive active R...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2006-02-22</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/87/Development-of-Task-Computing-Applications-and-Devices">
  <title><![CDATA[Development of Task Computing Applications and Devices]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/87/Development-of-Task-Computing-Applications-and-Devices</link>
  <description><![CDATA[To make Task Computing Environment more attractive and appeal it to 
customers, Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan has developed some applications
and devices based on TCE architecture.  We built demonstrations for an
office scene and a car system(ITS) combining with other technologies,
Spatial Information System(SIS) and ubiquitous IP phone.  These
demonstrations have given many people a very novel impression of
pervasive computing in the future.

Besides these applications, we have devel...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-03-10</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/83/Ph-D-Proposal-TrueBahn-A-Trustworthy-Data-Management-Framework-for-Pervasive-Environments">
  <title><![CDATA[Ph.D. Proposal: TrueBahn - A Trustworthy Data Management Framework for Pervasive Environments]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/83/Ph-D-Proposal-TrueBahn-A-Trustworthy-Data-Management-Framework-for-Pervasive-Environments</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Emerging low power wireless technologies, processors, and abundant storage are enabling devices with very small form factors to host complex services. Personal mobile devices are serving multi-functional roles, from location tracking (GPS) to micro-transactions (smart-cards). Continuing proliferation of such devices will be manifested in resource-rich environments, where information is available locally and directly -- via wireless means, instead of (or in addition to) delivery over infrastru...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2005-03-04</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/43/-Intelligent-Agents-meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-the-Aether">
  <title><![CDATA["Intelligent Agents meet the Semantic Web in the Aether]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/43/-Intelligent-Agents-meet-the-Semantic-Web-in-the-Aether</link>
  <description><![CDATA[The concept of an agent is ubiquitous in Computer Science. We employ it to talk about and to model a wide range of things from physical robots, to modules in client-server architectures, to human, to Internet-based information retrieval programs, to intelligent personal assistants. During the past decade a "software agents" paradigm has
emerged which views agents as autonomous, cooperating processes which use rich agent communication languages to exchange information and knowledge and to coo...]]></description>
  <dc:date>2004-07-20</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/1/Voice-Channel-for-IBM-WebSphere-Commerce-Portal">
  <title><![CDATA[Voice Channel for IBM WebSphere Commerce Portal]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/event/html/id/1/Voice-Channel-for-IBM-WebSphere-Commerce-Portal</link>
  <description><![CDATA[Filip Perich will present and demonstrate his work on enabling voice channel for IBM WebSphere Commerce Portal. Filip has completed this work as an IBM Fellow during his summer stay at IBM Toronto Labs, Markham, Ontario, Canada. The project was lead by Ms. Joanna Ng, the manager of Emerging Commerce Technologies department.]]></description>
  <dc:date>2003-10-06</dc:date>
 </item>
 <item rdf:about="http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/conference/html/id/1/UbiComp-2003">
  <title><![CDATA[UbiComp 2003]]></title>
  <link>http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/conference/html/id/1/UbiComp-2003</link>
  <dc:date>2003-10-12</dc:date>
 </item>
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