Homelessness and the Mobile Shelter System: Public Transportation as Shelter

Maelstrom: Churn as Shelter

Structured overlays are an important and powerful class of overlay networks that has emerged in recent years. They are typically targeted at peer-to-peer deployments involving millions of user-managed machines on the Internet. In this paper we address routing-table poisoning attacks against structured overlays, in which adversaries attempt to intercept traffic and control the system by convinci...

Hotspot Based Mobile Web Communication and Cooperation: ABRI+ Bus Shelter as a Hotspot for Mobile Contextual Transportation and Social Collaboration

In this research and development project we are exploring a new approach of mobile web and location-based services (LBS) for communication / collaboration which is based on a physical hot spot serving as an accumulation point; a hub for thematic and social collaboration. Different actors can consult, publish or exchange information in relation with the location materialized by the hot spot. Thi...

Providing shelter for the homeless: Faith-based organizations as instruments of the Public Good Providing shelter for the homeless: Faith-based organizations as instruments of the Public Good

Networked public service delivery requires attention to accountability and implementation in the public interest. Using the case of transitional housing in a western US community, we review the challenges of goal incongruence between network members and the resulting management problems. In addition, this case illustrates the role that local governments may play in promoting the primacy of one ...

Text as Shelter from the Storm

The Equity Tax and Shelter

Taxes have major costs beyond the collected revenue: deadweight from distorted incentives, compliance and enforcement costs, etc. A simple market mechanism, the Equity Tax, avoids these problems for the trickiest cases: corporate, dividend, and capital gains taxes. It exploits the ability of the share prices to reflect the expected true annual return (as perceived by investors, not as defined b...