Readings on Smart Environments

General

• B. Brumitt, B. Meyers, J. Krumm, A. Kern, and S. Shafer, "EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments", Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, 2000. (Microsoft Easy Living)

• M. Coen, B. Phillips, N. Warshawsky, L. Weisman, S. Peters and P. Finin, "Meeting the Computational Needs of Intelligent Environments: The Metaglue System", Proceedings of MANSE'99, 1999. (MIT Intelligent Room)

• D. Cook, M. Huber, K. Gopalratnam and M. Youngblood, "Learning to Control a Smart Home Environment," submitted to Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2003.

• C. Doom, "Get Smart: How Intelligent Technology Will Enhance Our World," Computer Sciences Corporation, 2001.

• A. Fox, B. Johanson, P. Hanrahan, and T. Winograd, "Integrating Information Appliances into an Interactive Workspace", IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2000. (Stanford iRoom)

• E. Heierman, D. Cook, S. Das and L. Holder, "Moving from Internet Appliances to Internet Intelligent Environments: Challenges and Directions", 2001. (UTA MavHome SmartHome)

• C. Kidd, R. Orr, G. Abowd, C. Atkeson, I. Essa, B. MacIntyre, E. Mynatt, T. Starner and W. Newstetter, "The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings - CoBuild'99, 1999. Slides available here. (Georgia Tech Aware Home)

• K. Larson, "The Home of the Future", Architecture and Urbanization, 361, 2000. (MIT house_n)

• M. Mozer, "An intelligent environment must be adaptive", IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications, 14(2), 11-13, 1999. (UC Boulder Adaptive House)

• J. Sanders, "Sensing the Subtleties of Everyday Life", Research Horizons, 2000. (Georgia Tech Aware Home)

Sensors

• A. Chu, F. Gen-Kuong and B. Swanson, "Smart Sensors and Network Sensor Systems," ENDEVCO Corporation.

• M. Corr, "Geographic based Ad-Hoc Routing for Sensor Networks," Masters Thesis, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 2001.

• M. Corr and C. Okino, "Networking Reconfigurable Smart Sensors," Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4232 Enabling Technologies for Law Enforcement and Security, 2000.

• J. Eidson and S. Woods, "A Research Prototype of a Networked Smart Sensor System," Hewlett-Packard Technical Report HPL-95-91, 1995.

• W. Elmenreich, W. Haidinger and H. Kopetz, "Interface Design for Smart Transducers," Proceedings of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001.

• D. Estrin, R. Govindan and J. Heidemann, "Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks," USC Information Sciences Institute, Technical Report 99-692, 1999.

• D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann and S. Kumar, "Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCOM '99), 1999.

• O. Kasten and M. Langheinrich, "First Experiences with Bluetooth in the Smart-Its Distributed Sensor Network," Proceedings of PACT 2001 Workshop on Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications, 2001.

• H. Kopetz, M. Holzmann and W. Elmenreich, "A Universal Smart Transducer Interface: TTP/A," International Journal of Computer System, Science and Engineering, Volume 16, Number 2, 2001.

• J. Liu, L. Perrone, D. Nicol, M. Liljenstam, C. Elliot and D. Pearson, "Simulation modeling of large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks," European Simulation Interoperability Workshop, 2001.

• S. Meguerdichian, S. Slijepcevic, V. Karayan, M. Potkonjak, "Localized Algorithms In Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks: Location Discovery and Sensor Exposure," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, pages 106-116, 2001.

• R. Orr and G. Abowd, "The Smart Floor: A Mechanism for Natural User Identification and Tracking", GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-00-02, 2000. (Georgia Tech Smart Floor)

• N. Priyantha, A. Miu, H. Balakrishnan and S. Teller, "The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications," Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), 2001.

• A. Schmidt and K. Van Laerhoven, "How to Build Smart Appliances", IEEE Personal Communications, pages 6-11, August 2001.

• R. Therrien, "TINI in the Eye of the Hurricane", InfoTech Plus.

• Sensors magazine

Networking

• A. Bhattacharya and S. K. Das, "LeZi-Update: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Personal Mobility Tracking in PCS Networks", ACM/Kluwer Journal on Wireless Networks (Special Issue on selected Mobicom'99 papers), Vol. 8, No. 2-3, pp. 121-135, Mar-May 2002. (Preliminary version appeared in ACM MobiCom'99 Proceedings)

• M. Bradshaw, B. Wang, L. Gao, J. Kurose, P. Shenoy, D. Towsley, S. Sen, "Periodic broadcast and patching services: implementation, measurement, and analysis in an internet streaming video testbed," Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia, pages 280-290, 2001.

• S. Das, A. Misra, P. Agrawal, and S. K. Das, "TeleMIP: Telecommunications-Enhanced Mobile IP Architecture for Fast Intradomain Mobility", IEEE Personal Communications, (Special Issue on IP-Based Mobile Telecommunications Networks), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 50-58, Aug 2000.

• K. Hua, Y. Cai, S. Sheu, "Patching: A multicast technique for true video-on-demand services," Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 191-200, 1998.

• K. Hua and S. Sheu, "Skyscraper Broadcasting: A New Broadcasting Scheme for Metropolitan Video-on-Demand Systems," Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 Conference, pages 89-100, 1997.

• "Discovering Devices and Services in Home Networks", IBM White Paper, 1999.

• A. Misra, S. Das, A. McAuley, and S. K. Das, "Autoconfiguration, Registration and Mobility Management for Pervasive Computing", IEEE Personal Communications, (Special Issue on Pervasive Computing), Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 24-31, Aug 2001.

• "Wireless Home Networks", Xilinx White Paper, 2001.

Database

• P. Bonnet, J. Gehrke, and P. Seshadri,"Towards Sensor Database Systems,", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Hong Kong, 2001.

• S. Chakravarthy, "Early Active Database Efforts: A Capsule Summary", University of Florida Technical Report, 1998.

• S. Chakravarthy, V. Krishnaprasad, E. Anwar, and S. Kim, "Composite Events for Active Database: Semantics, Contexts and Detection", Proceedings of the 20th VLDB Conference, 1994.

• J. Navas and M. Wynblatt,"The network is the database: data management for highly distributed systems," Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pages 544-551, 2001.

Prediction

• C. Burkey, "Environmental Interfaces: HomeLab", Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, 2000.

• B. Davison and H. Hirsh, "Probabilistic Online Action Prediction", Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 1998.

• B. Davison and H. Hirsh, "Toward an Adaptive Command Line Interface", Proceedings of the Conference on Human-Computer Interfaces, 1997.

• A. Delcher, D. Harmon, S. Kasif, O. White, and S. Salzberg, "Improved Microbial Gene Identification with Glimmer", Nucleic Acids Research, 27(23), 1999.

• P. Gorniak and D. Poole, "Predicting Future User Actions by Observing Unmodified Applications", Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.

• H. Hirsh, C. Basu, and B. Davison, "Learning to Personalize", Communications of the ACM, 43(8), 2000.

• H. Hirsh and B. Davison, "An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant", Proceedings of the Conference on Agents, 1997.

• B. Korvemaker and R. Greiner, "Predicting UNIX Command Lines: Adjusting to User Patterns", Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.

• D. Kudenko and H. Hirsh, "Feature Generation for Sequence Categorization", Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998.

• T. Lane, "Hidden Markov Models for Human / Computer Interface Modeling", Proceedings of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Learning about Users, pages 35-44, 1999.

• T. Lane and C. Brodley, "Temporal Sequence Learning and Data Reduction for Anomaly Detection", Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 150-158, 1998.

• A. Liu, A. Pentland, M. Fernandez, C. Harp, and I. Murakami, "The Driver's Intention Project (Smart Cars)", 2000.

• J. Ruvini and C. Dony, "APE: Learning User's Habits to Automate Repetitive Tasks", International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 229-232, 2000.

• K. Seymore, A. McCallum, and R. Rosenfield, "Learning Hidden Markov Model Structure for Information Extraction", Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Machine Learning for Information Extraction, 1999.

Decision Making

• C. Boutilier, T. Dean, and S. Hanks, "Decision-Theoretic Planning: Structural Assumptions and Computational Leverage," Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 11, pages 1-94, 1999.

• E. Feinberg and A. Schwarz, "Handbook of Markov Decision Processes, Chapter 1 Introduction," Kluwer, 2001.

• M. Harmon and S. Harmon, "Reinforcement Learning: A Tutorial," 1996.

• F. Jensen, "Bayesian Graphical Models," Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, 2000.

• F. Jensen, "Influence Diagrams," Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, 2000.

• L. Kaelbling, M. Littman, and A. Cassandra, "Planning and Acting in Partially-Observable Stochastic Domains," Artificial Intelligence, Volume 101, pages 99-134, 1997.

• S. Russell and P. Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach," Prentice Hall, 1995.

• R. Sutton and A. Barto, "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction," MIT Press, 1998.

Robotics

• C. Breazeal, "Robot in Society: Friend or Appliance?," Agents99 Workshop on Emotion-Based Agent Architectures, pages 18-26, 1999.

• N. Roy, G. Baltus, D. Fox, F. Gemperle, J. Goetz, T. Hirsch, D. Margaritis, M. Montemerlo, J. Pineau, J. Schulte, and S. Thrun, "Towards Personal Service Robots for the Elderly," Workshop on Interactive Robots and Entertainment (WIRE 2000), 2000.

Privacy and Security

• P. Bergstrom, K. Driscoll and J. Kimball, "Making Home Automation Communications Secure", Computer, 34(10):50-56, 2001.