In an Ubiquitous Computing environment, sensors are actively collecting data, much of which can be very sensitive. Data will often be streaming at high rates (video and audio) and it must be dealt with in real-time. Protecting the privacy of users is of central importance. Effective solutions for controlling access to data in ubicomp settings remain to be developed. Dealing with these issues wi...

Inconsistent evidence of the hypothesized favorable effects of high job control on health may have resulted from a failure to treat job control as a multifactor concept. The authors studied whether the 2 components of job control, decision authority and skill discretion, were differentially associated with cause-specific mortality in 13,510 Finnish forest company employees with no history of se...

Abstract An agent can perform a job in several ways, which we call tasks. Choosing agents’ tasks is the prerogative of management within firms, and agents themselves if they are entrepreneurs. While comparative advantage at different unknown, it be learned by observing their performance. However, that generate more information could lead to lower short-term profits. Hence, firms will allocate w...

Abstract Discretion gives decision makers choices as to how resources are allocated, or other aspects of state largesse coercion deployed. Discretionary power challenges the rule law, first by transferring decisions from legislators departments, agencies and street-level bureaucrats secondly risking uniform application key fairness equality norms. Concerns find alternative decentred forms regul...