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Solar: Towards A Flexible And Scalable Data-Fusion Infrastructure For Ubiquitous Computing, Guanling Chen, David Kotz
Solar: Towards A Flexible And Scalable Data-Fusion Infrastructure For Ubiquitous Computing, Guanling Chen, David Kotz
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As we embed more computers into our daily environment, ubiquitous computing promises to make them less noticeable and to avoid information overload. We see, however, few ubiquitous applications that are able to adapt to the dynamics of user, physical, and computational context. The challenge is to allow applications flexible access to these sources, and yet scale to thousands of devices and sensors. In this paper we introduce our proposed infrastructure, Solar. In Solar, information sources produce events. Applications may subscribe to interesting sources directly, or they may instantiate and subscribe to a tree of operators that filter, transform, merge and …
A Market-Based Model For Resource Allocation In Agent Systems, Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus
A Market-Based Model For Resource Allocation In Agent Systems, Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus
Dartmouth Scholarship
In traditional computational systems, resource owners have no incentive to subject themselves to additional risk and congestion associated with providing service to arbitrary agents, but there are applications that benefit from open environments. We argue for the use of markets to regulate agent systems. With market mechanisms, agents have the abilities to assess the cost of their actions, behave responsibly, and coordinate their resource usage both temporally and spatially. \par We discuss our market structure and mechanisms we have developed to foster secure exchange between agents and hosts. Additionally, we believe that certain agent applications encourage repeated interactions that benefit …