A novel, ‘net-centric’ approach to disaster management is challenging traditional forms of command and control, through technology-supported, self-directed networks of heterogeneous stakeholders including affected citizens. Citizen involvement in crisis response can strengthen the resilience of local communities, and improve the relevance and delivery of response, evidenced by increasingly impo...

1Institute of Biochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; 2Institute of Pathology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany; 3Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA; 4Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 5Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cance...

The exponential rise in wireless communication demands and allied applications have revitalized academia-industries to develop more efficient routing protocols. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) being battery operated network, it often undergoes node death-causing pre-ma...

Title of dissertation: STORAGE-CENTRIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR SMART BUILDINGS Baobing Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor John S. Baras Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering In the first part of the dissertation, we propose a model-based systems design framework, called WSNDesign, to facilitate the design and implementation of wireless sensor n...

We introduce Kynoid, a real-time monitoring and enforcement framework for Android. Kynoid is based on user-defined security policies which are defined for data-items. This allows users to define temporal, spatial, and destination constraints which have to hold for single items. We introduce an innovative approach to allow for the real-time tracking and enforcement of such policies. In this way,...

Today, innovation networks are economically and technologically accessible [VBE04]; however, managers and members of such organizations notice that success and performance are not automatically given. More to this, practitioners point out that the collaboration processes are the actual challenge in the management of a networked organization. This paper summarizes the results of a research proje...

By understanding the semantics of workflows and their data, grid middleware can provide data-centric services that are lacking in currently deployed process-centric grid middleware. We describe GridDB, a grid middleware system that provides data-centric services as well as one example service, computational steering.