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Hic locus est Ubi Mortui Viveuntes Docent.

We appreciate the comments of Drs. Eid and Otsuki regarding the recent article by Jones and Whitaker (2009). In a day where at one of our own medical institutions cadaveric dissection is being supplanted with what was described to one of us by an administrative faculty as ‘‘more sophisticated’’ means of teaching anatomy (e.g. radiology), we still feel strongly about the continued use of the ken...

Ubi Lex, Ibi Poena : Designing Norm Enforcement in E-Institutions

The viability of the application of the e-Institution paradigm for obtaining overall desired behavior in open multiagent systems (MAS) lies in the possibility of bringing the norms of the institution to have an actual impact on the MAS. Institutional norms have to be implemented in the society. The paper addresses two possible views on implementing norms, the so-called regimentation of norms, a...

UBI with Logging

Flash memory is widely adopted as a novel nonvolatile storage medium because of its characteristics: fastaccess speed, shock resistance, and low power consumption. UBI Unsorted Block Images, uses mechanisms like wear leveling and bad block management to overcome flash limitations such as “erase before write”. This simplifies file systems like UBIFS, which depend on UBI for flash management. How...

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Keynote: Open UBI Oulu

Contemporary urban landscape is being pervaded by various forms of ubiquitous computing (‘ubicomp’) technologies. They provide new opportunities and challenges for the interaction with their inhabitants -essentially turning urban spaces into smart environments. However, cities as smart environments remain largely unexplored research wise, with smart cities’ impact on people’s daily lives much l...