M-commerce entails transactions conducted via mobile telecommunications networks using communication, information, and payment devices such as mobile phones or palmtop units. Geographic positioning and location capabilities are also being added to such networks and devices. Rather than using general-purpose browsers, customers accessing mobile commerce applications often rely on specific mobile...

Managing today’s data networks is highly expensive, difficult, and error-prone. At the center of this enormous difficulty lies configuration: a Sisyphean task of updating operational settings of numerous network devices and protocols. Much has been done to mask this configuration complexity intrinsic to conventional networks, but little effort has been made to redesign the networks themselves t...

Knowledge-based configuration has been used for numerous applications including natural language processing (NLP). By formalising property grammars as a configuration problem, it has been shown that configuration can provide a flexible, nondeterministic, method of parsing natural language. However, it focuses only on syntactic parsing. In contrast, configuration is usually performed using knowl...

Robots are becoming increasingly modular in their design, allowing different configurations of hardware and software, e.g., different wheels, sensors, and algorithms. We are interested in forming a multi-robot team by configuring each robot (i.e., selecting the different modules) to best fit a task. This general problem is applicable to many domains, such as manufacturing in high-mix low-volume...

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 N. Boulus-Rødje et al. (eds.), ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19–23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20499-4_13 Abstract We have conducted a video study of households in Scotland with cohabiting students and young professionals. In this paper we unpack five ex...

This paper makes two contributions to the study of configuring real-time aspects into quality of service (QoS)-enabled component middleware and distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. First, it compares and contrasts the process of integrating real-time aspects into DRE systems using conventional QoS-enabled distributed object computing (DOC) middleware versus QoS-enabled component mi...

The purpose of this paper is to identify capability configurations when managing ambidextrous supply chains. To illuminate these issues, we draw on a longitudinal in-depth study of ScanFashion an international fashion firm. We find supply chain managers at ScanFashion face substantial challenges related to (i) simultaneously pursuing long range planning and flexible adaptation, (ii) ensuring co...

In next generation networks, the introduction of intelligence and flexibility in mobile devices and network nodes appears as a promising solution to the high degree of variability in the telecommunication environment. The materialization of these concepts under the autonomic networking notion paves the way for introduction of awareness and adaptation capabilities in various layers of mobile dev...

The increasing complexity of e-Government services demands a correspondingly larger effort for management. Today, many system management tasks, such as service verification and re-configuration due to changes in the law, are often performed manually. This can be time consuming and error-prone. The main objective of the OntoGov (IST-2002-507237) project is to overcome the above mentioned problem...

IP networks today require massive effort to configure and manage. Ethernet is vastly simpler to manage, but does not scale beyond small local area networks. This paper describes an alternative network architecture called SEIZE that achieves the best of both worlds: The scalability of IP combined with the simplicity of Ethernet. SEIZE provides plugand-play functionality via flat addressing, whil...