The problems in the sofnyare engineering profession have received a great deal of attention in recent years: failure to meet software development schedules and costs, the low level of quality and reliability in many software systems, a lack of professional standards, and the general lack of maturity of the software engineering discipline. To help address these problems the Software Engineering ...

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Can you imagine hauling around a large, light-tight wooden trunk containing a co-worker or an assistant whom you take out only for occasional, brief interaction. For each session, you would have to open the box, wake up (boot) the assistant, and afterward seal him back in the box. Human dynamics aside, wouldn’t that person seem like more of a burden than a help? In some ways, today’s multimedia...

This paper first presents a survey of campus computing projects describing in detail the aspects that matter the most. These projects have the common goal of integrating Personal Computers in academic regular activities. From this description it becomes clear that almost all of these projects adopt standard PC platforms, that offer a common set of installed software applications, recommended by...

This paper proposes an agent-based model for providing personalized services at specific locations. We describe the concept of LBP-agents, point out benefits of the model, and examine implementation and software infrastructural

The significant technological advances in hardware miniaturisation and data communications change the landscape of computing in a profound way. A rich variety of sensing, storage and processing nodes will soon be embedded in artefacts and clothes worn by people. Numerous computing elements will be integrated in appliances, furniture, buildings, public spaces and vehicles. It now becomes possibl...

Cloud computing is used broadly in various services which maintain Personal Health Record (PHR). It is an emerging Health-centric model of patient health information interchange. Personal Health Record (PHR) information can be stored in a third party server i.e.Cloud server. The most important issues are fine–grained access, cryptographically enforced data access control, scalability in key man...

Humanistic computing is proposed as a new signal processing framework in which the processing apparatus is inextricably intertwined with the natural capabilities of our human body and mind. Rather than trying to emulate human intelligence, humanistic computing recognizes that the human brain is perhaps the best neural network of its kind, and that there are many new signal processing applicatio...

This paper reports on the use of personal computers in the home. Analyses were; conducted on US Census Current Population Survey data on computer usage from 1984 to 1997. Findings are presented with regard to the diffusion of ownership and usage patterns of personal computers in the home. Implications ors social impact of home computing art discussed.

By the mid 1980 s, the trend in computing was away from large centralized time-shared computers towards networks of smaller, personal machines, typically UNIX worksta­ tions . People had grown weary of overloaded, bureaucratic timesharing machines and were eager to move to small, self-maintained systems, even if that meant a net loss in computing power. As microcomputers became faster, even tha...