Multifamily housing facilities serving low-income populations have been at the forefront of bed bug outbreaks. Research conducted in the past 8 years has consistently proven that integrated pest management (IPM) is the best approach for successful suppression of bed bug infestations. Bed bug IPM in multifamily settings is especially dependent upon a collaborative community or building-wide effo...

Buildings consume about 40 percent of total national energy use, are responsible for the same percentage of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for about 70 percent of electricity use. To address energy security issues and environmental concerns there is an urgent need to develop techniques that greatly reduce energy use and peak electric power in buildings while providing or improving the se...

Complex environments for ATM based telecommunication services assume high availability and reliability of the network resources as well as the services. In order to reduce the cost of building and maintaining wide area ATM networks, efficient and cost-effective resource management techniques are needed to avoid over-allocation of resources. This requires building a network having the intelligen...

MViews is a new approach to building Integrated Software Development Environments (ISDEs). Graph-based representations of software system data, and multiple views of this data, are kept consistent via graph components responding to descriptions of changes made to other components. This technique supports integrated, bi-directionally consistent graphical (interactively-edited) and textual (free-...

A new approach to building Integrated Software Development Environments (ISDEs) is described. Graphbased representations of software system data, and multiple views of this data, are kept consistent by having graph components respond to descriptions of changes made to related graph components. This technique supports integrated, bi-directionally consistent graphical (interactively-edited) and t...

GlobalMMCS is a scalable, integrated and service-oriented collaboration system, which can support conferencing, instant message and whiteboard. This paper describes our work on building an integrated collaborative portal to GlobalMMCS services. Java Media Framework (JMF), a platform-independent multimedia programming framework is used to develop a high efficient conferencing client named Global...