Home and Building Automation Systems (HBAS) are becoming of widespread adoption. When distinct users interact with such systems, their intentions are likely to be different, often resulting in conflicting situations, which the systems ought to recognize and resolve automatically. This work aims at investigating conflict in HBAS and creating a solution to detect and resolve them. Herein, we revi...

This paper analayzes different FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) elements and the related economic, political, technological and social effects. We will demonstrate that, in Latin America, noncooperative or competitive equilibria do not solve the conflicts between FFTA supporters (the government and exporters) and detractors (social, religious and academic movements.) Finally, we will show...

Current conflicts in the international arena are wars of insurgent action. As this action has proven necessary in the building of nations historically, the increased utilization of tactics to include guerilla war and terrorism has become commonplace. The proper identification of conditions, which promote violence, as well as exacerbate the utilization of promotion of political violence (terrori...

In this paper, we propose Conflict Manager to resolve conflicts for context-aware applications in smart home environments. Conflicts arise when multiple users access an application or when various applications share limited resources to provide services. In order to resolve conflicts among users, the Conflict Manager assigns priority to each user so that the user with the highest priority can b...

We investigated how people manage boundaries to negotiate the demands between work and home life. We discovered and classified four types of boundary work tactics (behavioral, temporal, physical, and communicative) that individuals utilized to help create their ideal level and style of work-home segmentation or integration. We also found important differences between the generalized state of wo...