A socio-ecological test bed

Ecological and Socio-ecological Economic Models

A theory of socio-ecological system change

Private foundations and other organizations concerned with improving society these days frequently ask grantees to articulate their “theory of change.” By this they usually mean their strategy for accomplishing the stated goals of the project, rather than a real, general theory of how social change happens (Anderson 2005). For example, the Center for Theory of Change defines it this way: “A The...

The PicoRadio Test Bed

In this paper, we describe the architecture and use of the PicoRadio Test Bed, a general-purpose emulation platform for exploring new wireless communication technologies. It primarily supports the PicoRadio program at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, a research facility of the University of California at Berkeley. The Test Bed provides a programmable hardware platform with basic radio con...

A Miniature Parachute-probe Dynamics Test-bed

Small-scale sensor packages and parachutes manufactured for model rocket recovery were handdropped from within a building in order to gain familiarity with the descent kinematics of a planetary probe through an atmosphere. A number of parachute-probe systems ranging in size, shape, weight, riser length, and sensors were dropped while exterior video cameras and onboard sensor data were collected...

Building a Desktop Search Test-Bed

In the last years several top-quality papers utilized temporary Desktop data and/or browsing activity logs for experimental evaluation. Building a common testbed for the Personal Information Management community is thus becoming an indispensable task. In this paper we present a possible dataset design and discuss the means to create it.