White Papers

Confident Sensor Collaboration with Machine Learning
Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary, USA)
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Scaling Personal Stress Assistance in Natural Environments
Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, USA)
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Network science as a foundation for metrics, models and theories of large-scale pervasive systems
Vassilis Kostakos (University of Madeira, Portugal)
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Distributed Collaborative Activity Recognition
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
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Surviving the data deluge: Scalable feature extraction, discrimination and analysis
Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University of Technology, Australia); Dinh Q. Phung (Curtin University of Technology, Australia); DucSon Pham (Curtin University of Technology, Australia)
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Michael Anderson White Paper
Michael Anderson (University of Hartford, USA)
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Personalized Search Here and Now in Large-Scale Pervasive Computing Networks
Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Energy-Aware Programming in Pervasive Computing
Yu David Liu (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)
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Decoupling and Computing at Scale - Unlocking the Impossible Triangle
Justin Y. Shi (Temple University, USA)
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Achieving Ubiquity through Hardware Virtualization
Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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User Interaction Patterns and Strategies in Large Interactive Device Landscapes
Erik Stolterman (Indiana University, USA)
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Sustainable Pervasive Computing Through Mobile Clouds
Vinod Namboodiri (Wichita State University, USA)
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Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags (EnHANTs)
Peter Kinget (Columbia University, USA); Ioannis Kymissis (Columbia University, USA); Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University, USA); Xiaodong Wang (Columbia University, USA); Gil Zussman (Columbia University, USA)
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Mobile Sensing for Mass-Scale Behavioural Intervention
Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom); Mirco Musolesi (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom); Peter Rentfrow (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Large-scale Situational Awareness with Camera Networks and Multimodal Sensing
Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Liviu Iftode (Rutgers University, USA); Rajnish Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Santosh Pande (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Boris Koldehofe (Universitat Stuttgart, Germany)
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Ubiquitous Networking for Human Containers
Thomas Little (Boston University, USA)
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Scalable Activity Recognition
Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan (Washington State University, USA)
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Contextual Intelligence: Scalability Issues in Personal Semantic Networks
Oliver Brdiczka (PARC, USA); James Begole (PARC, USA); Maurice K Chu (PARC, USA); Kurt Partridge (PARC, USA)
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Ubiquitous Computing 20 Years Later
Doug Terry (Microsoft Research, USA)
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Network Systems to Support Spatio-Temporal Context-Awareness
Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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White paper for the NSF Sponsored Workshop on Pervasive Computing at Scale (PeCS)
Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
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SensorFly: A Collaborative Lightweight Rapidly Deployable Aerial Sensing System
Pei Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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Collaboration out of the box: A framework for enabling large-scale, energy-efficient pervasive computing
Du Li (Huawei Innovation Center, California, USA)
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Moving Clouds
Brian Noble (University of Michigan, USA); Azarias Reda (University of Michigan, USA)
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Challenge: Distributed Sensing Applications in Highly Heterogeneous and Multimodal Pervasive Environments
Mario Di Francesco (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
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Wireless Network Cloud: Theory and Smart Grid Application
Brian T Kelley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA); Mo Jamshidi (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
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g-root.org: Crowdsourcing Data Collection at Scale using Social Networks, Human Sensing, and Mobile Sensors
Niklas Elmqvist (Purdue University, USA)
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Perpetual Cubic-mm Wireless Sensor Nodes
David D Wentzloff (University of Michigan, USA); David Blaauw (University of Michigan, USA); Prabal K Dutta (University of Michigan, USA); Thomas Schmid (University of Michigan, USA); Dennis Sylvester (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
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Moving Towards Dynamic Groups and Hybrid Distributed Paradigms
Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Pervasive healthcare at scale
David Kotz (Dartmouth College, USA)
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Inexpensive and mobile tele-immersive environments for everybody (TEEVE)
Peter Bajcsy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Kenton McHenry (UIUC, USA); Rob Kooper (UIUC, USA)
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Achieving Sustained Quality‐of‐Service in Pervasive Computing with Renewable Energy Source
Qinru Qiu (Binghamton University, USA)
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Compressive Information Extraction
Mario Sznaier (Northeastern University, USA)
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Tapping Your Phone's Context Continuum
David Chu (Microsoft Research, P.R. China); Aman Kansal (Microsoft Research, USA); Jie Liu (Microsoft Research, USA); Nissanka Priyantha (Microsoft Research, USA)
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On Social Dynamics and Their Importance for Large-Scale Pervasive Computing
Mads Haahr (Trinity College, Ireland)
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Green at the Micro-Scale: Powering Pervasive Computing Systems Through Environmental Energy Harvesting
Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue University, USA)
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Relevance and Cognition for Pervasive Computation at Scale
Ioannis Stavrakakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
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Closing the loop between traffic/pollution sensing and vehicle route control
Liviu Iftode (Rutgers University, USA); Mario Gerla (University of California at Los Angeles, USA); Badri Nath (Rutgers University, USA); Giovanni Pau (UCLA, USA); Suzanne Paulson (UCLA, USA)
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Participatory Sensing for Pervasive Transportation Services
Wang-Chien Lee (The Pennsylvania State University at University Park, USA)
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Crowdsourcing for Large-Scale Pervasive Sensing
Deepak Ganesan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA); Mark Corner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
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Opportunities and Challenges on Pervasive Computing in Smart Grid
Vincent Wong (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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PhoneLab: A Large-Scale Participatory Smartphone Testbed
Geoffrey Werner Challen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Murat Demirbas (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA); Steven Y. Ko (SUNY at Buffalo, USA); Tevfik Kosar (Louisiana State University, USA)
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Towards Accident Free Highways: Scaling Up Pervasive Computing for Human-Centered Active Safety
Mohan M Trivedi (University of California, USA)
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Exploring Widespread Deployment through Infrastructure-Mediated Sensing
Shwetak N. Patel (University of Washington, USA)
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Managing Data in Large-Scale Participatory Sensing Applications
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani (University of Southern California, USA); Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, USA)
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Federated Sensing Systems that use Human Behavior to Provide Services
Andreas Savvides (Yale University, USA)
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Building a home with pervasive memory
Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University, USA)
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Coordinating Robotic Bee Swarms
Karthik Dantu (Harvard University, USA); Bryan Kate (Harvard University, USA); Jason Waterman (Harvard University, USA); Peter Bailis (Harvard University, USA); Matt Welsh (Harvard University, USA)
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Large-scale Profile-based Behavioral Modeling, Networking and Computing
Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA); Sanjay Ranka (University of Florida, USA)
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Understanding and Utilizing the Influence of Social Networks on Health Care in YesiWell
Dejing Dou (University of Oregon, USA); Daniel Lowd (University of Oregon, USA); Jessica Greene (University of Oregon, USA); Brigitte Piniewski (PeaceHealth Laboratories, USA); Ruoming Jin (Kent State University, USA); Xintao Wu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA); David Kil (SK Telecom Americas, USA); Frances Shin (SK Telecom Americas, USA)
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Pervasive Assessment of Social Behavior
James Rehg (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Pervasive Computing powered by cell phones and opportunistic networking
Mohan J Kumar (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
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Scaling Human Attention: End-User Interaction with Machine Learning In Pervasive Systems
James Fogarty (University of Washington, USA)
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Towards Global Scale Socially Interactive Pervasive Systems
Paul Lukowicz (University of Passau, Germany); Dirk Helbing (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland); Steven Bishop (UCL, United Kingdom)
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Enabling Pervasive Mobile Sensing
Prabal K Dutta (University of Michigan, USA)
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Large-scale Distributed RFID Infrastructures for Pervasive Computing
Victor K.Y. Wu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); Roy Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Simple Scaling for RFID-based Pervasive Computing Systems
David Wetherall (University of Washington, USA); Joshua R. Smith (University of Washington, USA)
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