Civic decorum

DEcorum File System Architectural Overview

We describe the DEcorum file system, a distributed file system designed for high performance, low network load, easy operation and administration, and interoperability with other file systems. The DEcorum file system has three components: the DEcorum protocol exporter (or file server); the Episode physical file system; and the DEcorum client (or cache manager). Episode is a module that implemen...

CIVIC Entrepreneurship

How far do we observe publication ethics and decorum?

Civic Intelligence and CSCW

Civic intelligence is a form of existing — and potential — collective intelligence that is dedicated towards the reconciliation of problems that affect society collectively. The civic intelligence perspective has helped spawn various frameworks and models that can be used to inform CSCW analysis and design. This paper examines the particular relevance of civic intelligence to CSCW and discusses...

Civic Engagement, Adulthood

COHABITATION Cohabitation is defined by social scientists as two adults of the opposite sex living together in an intimate, nonmarital relationship. Cohabitation has rapidly become a prominent feature on the landscape of American family life. Using the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), Kennedy and Bumpass (2007) estimated that 58% of women aged between 25 and 29 had cohabited at som...