Home Rule Be Damned: Exploring Policy Conflicts between the Statehouse and City Hall

Policy conflicts in home automation

The nature of home automation is introduced. It is argued that end users should be able to define how the home system reacts to changing circumstances. Policies are employed as user-defined rules for how this should happen. The architecture of the Homer home automation system is briefly overviewed. The Homer policy system and the Homeric policy language it supports are explained. A technique is...

Exploring conflicts in rule-based sensor networks

This paper addresses rule conflicts within wireless sensor networks. The work is situated within psychiatric ambulatory assessment settings where patients are monitored in and around their homes. Detecting behaviours within these settings favours sensor networks, while scalability and resource concerns favour processing data on smart nodes incorporating rule engines. Suchmonitoring involves per...

Scoop and be damned

Both journals and journalism are well served by the embargo system. Newspaper offices receive advance copies of major journals, and/or press releases highlighting key papers, embargoed so that their contents cannot be disclosed before publication day. Journalists then have time to write stories to appear simultaneously. No-one has an unfair advantage. And journals gain more publicity than they ...

Policy Conflicts in Home Care Systems

Technology to support care at home is a promising alternative to traditional approaches. However, home care systems present significant technical challenges. For example, it is difficult to make such systems flexible, adaptable, and controllable by users. The authors have created a prototype system that uses policy-based management of home care services. Conflict detection and resolution for ho...

Publish or be damned.