To many people, home is a sanctuary. For those people who need special medical care, they may need to be pulled out of their homes to meet their medical needs. As the population ages, the percentage of people in this group is increasing and the effects are expensive as well as unsatisfying. We hypothesize that many people with disabilities can lead independent lives in their own homes with the ...

FIASCO is a location-based mixed-reality game that is played both on a website and on the streets. Developed using methods inspired by Situationist urban theory, FIASCO was designed to promote new uses for public space. As pervasive games moves into the public sphere, the authors propose a review of their effects on social life and urban spaces.

The # component model has been proposed motivated by the inadequacy of current parallel programming artifacts to the new complexity of high performance computing (HPC) software. It has solid formal foundations, sitting on top of category theory and Petri nets. It also may be viewed as a general theory of parallel components. This paper presents design and architectural issues regarding the impl...

Audit sequences have been used effectively to study process behaviors and build host-based intrusion detection models. Most sequencebased techniques make use of a pre-defined window size for scanning the sequences to model process behavior. In this paper, we propose two methods for extracting variable length patterns from audit sequences that avoid the necessity of such a pre-determined paramet...

In this tool demonstration paper, we present a plugin for the Eclipse tool platform which provides support for JAsCo. JAsCo is a dynamic AOP language focused at component-based software engineering. The JAsCo Eclipse plugin provides a visual integrated development environment for JAsCo that guides developers to program JAsCo artifacts using visual wizards. The plugin also supports running JAsCo...

An important goal of workflow engines is to simplify the way in which the interaction of workflows and software components (or services) is described and implemented. The vision of the AristaFlow project is to support a "plug and play" approach in which workflow designers can describe interactions with components simply by "dragging" them from a repository and "dropping" them into appropriate p...

Recent developments in museum visitors' guides focus on context awareness, personalization and multimodal and multimedia information presentation to individuals and groups of visitors. However, the modern museum is becoming an "Active Museum", which is a special example of an active environment that interacts with its inhabitants. Since recent museum visitors' guides have focused more on the ap...

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) is a promising approach to improve quality, achieve shorter time to market and to manage the increasing complexity of software. Still there are a number of unsolved problems that hinder wide use of it. This is especially true for real-time systems, not only because of more rigorous requirements and demanding constraints, but also because of lack of kn...

Most of the research on ambient intelligence focusses on how to integrate smart objects into our real environment without considering how users interact with these objects and make use of their functionality. In this paper, we discuss interaction design methods in an ambient intelligent environment in order to develop a model for interaction design between the user who resides in the real world...

Smart environments include context-aware computing to enhance system capabilities which affect user interaction positively. A context-aware application should collect contextual information through different ways depending on technology availability and handle this information adequately to execute actions or warnings, present information or modify the environment. Ambient intelligence (AmI) ha...