The aim of this paper is to present a participatory evaluation of an actual "smart home" project implemented in an independent retirement facility. Using the participatory evaluation process, residents guided the research team through development and implementation of the initial phase of a smart home project designed to assist residents to remain functionally independent and age in place. We r...

Lighthouse Youth Services in Cincinnati, Ohio, began placing foster youth, ages sixteen to eighteen, in individual apartments and other living arrangements in 1981 as a way of preparing them for life after foster care. The program has assisted over thirteen hundred youth and their children using scattered-site apartments, shared homes, roommate situations, host homes, and subsidized housing. Th...

This paper presents a hierarchical case representation using a context guided retrieval method. The performance of this method is compared to that of a simpler flat file representation using standard nearest neighbour retrieval. The estimation of construction costs of light industrial buildings is used as the test domain. Each case in the system has approximately 400 features. These are structu...

A paramount question faced by technology innovators is whether to license an innovation to other firms, and if so, what type of license it should use. Information technology innovations often have the unique feature of leading to new products and services that exhibit network effects. This paper addresses the question whether the presence of network effects changes an innovator’ licensing choic...

This document describes a file format for the storage of flow data based upon the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) protocol. It proposes a set of requirements for flat-file, binary flow data file formats, then specifies the IPFIX File format to meet these requirements based upon IPFIX Messages. This IPFIX File format is designed to facilitate interoperability and reusability among a wide vari...

More and more music is being made available to the music listener today, while people have their favorite music on their mobile players. In this paper, we investigate an approach to automatically updating the music on the mobile player based on personal listening behavior. The aim is to automatically discard those pieces of music from the player the listener is fed up with, while new music is a...

This paper concerns a goal directed proof procedure for the propositional fragment of the adaptive logic ACLuN1. The procedure forms an algorithm for final derivability and may easily be generalized for the propositional fragment of all flat adaptive logics. The aim is to articulate a procedure that, if extended to the predicative level, provides criteria for

This panel highlights a selection of the most interesting and provocative papers from the 2004 New Security Paradigms Workshop. This workshop was held September 2004 the URL for more information is . The panel consists of authors of the selected papers, and the session is moderated by the workshop’s general chairs. We present selected papers focusing on exciting major theme...

Abstract Reverse pricing is a market mechanism under which a consumer’s bid for a product leads to a sale if the bid exceeds a hidden acceptance threshold the seller has set in advance. The seller faces two key decisions in designing such a mechanism: First, he must decide where in the process to collect the revenue—that is, whether to commit to a minimum markup above cost (and thus define the ...

Ethnic and gender discrimination in a variety of markets has been documented in several populations. We conducted an online field experiment to examine ethnic and gender discrimination in the private rental housing market in Finland. We sent 1459 inquiries regarding 800 apartments. We compared responses to standardized apartment inquiries including fictive Arabic-sounding, Finnish-sounding or S...