Ubi Petrus ibi Ecclesia

Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena : Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions

The viability of the application of the e-Institution paradigm for obtaining overall desired behavior in open multiagent systems (MAS) lies in the possibility of bringing the norms of the institution to have an actual impact on the MAS. Institutional norms have to be implemented in the society. The paper addresses two possible views on implementing norms, the so-called regimentation of norms, a...

UBI with Logging

Flash memory is widely adopted as a novel nonvolatile storage medium because of its characteristics: fastaccess speed, shock resistance, and low power consumption. UBI Unsorted Block Images, uses mechanisms like wear leveling and bad block management to overcome flash limitations such as “erase before write”. This simplifies file systems like UBIFS, which depend on UBI for flash management. How...

Keynote: Open UBI Oulu

Contemporary urban landscape is being pervaded by various forms of ubiquitous computing (‘ubicomp’) technologies. They provide new opportunities and challenges for the interaction with their inhabitants -essentially turning urban spaces into smart environments. However, cities as smart environments remain largely unexplored research wise, with smart cities’ impact on people’s daily lives much l...

The `Disciplina clericalis' of Petrus Alfonsi

Evolution of Ubi-Autonomous Entities

Ubiquitous power includes one important factor that is the coordination among small instances of individualized smart programs. With the coordination, intelligent strategies can be established to realize computing topology and to serve different purposes of computing goals. With the development of cellular phones and internet, these individualized programs exist in the digital world where a new...