Project Aura
Distraction-free Ubiquitous Computing

Carnegie Mellon University



Here are some recent publications from the Aura project. More recent ones are listed first. Note that many additional publications relating to Aura can be found in the web pages of related projects.

"Implementing access control to people location information",
Urs Hengartner and  Peter Steenkiste, 
9th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT'04), Yorktown Heights, June 2004.
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“Providing Contextual Information to Pervasive Computing Applications”
Judd, G, Steenkiste, P.
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERCOM), Dallas, March 23-25, 2003.
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"Access Control to Information in Pervasive Computing Environments"
Hengartner, U., and Steenkiste, P
To appear in Proc. of 9th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS IX), Lihue, HI, May 2003
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"Protecting Access to People Location Information"
Hengartner, U., and Steenkiste, P.
Proc. of First International Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (SPC 2003), Boppard, Germany March 2003
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"Protecting People Location Information"
Hengartner, U., and Steenkiste, P., (Extended Abstract).
Proc. of Workshop on Security in Ubiquitous Computing, Göteborg, Sweden, September 2002
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"Aura: an Architectural Framework for User Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments"
João Pedro Sousa, and David Garlan
Software Architecture: System Design, Development, and Maintenance (Proceedings of the 3rd Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture) Jan Bosch, Morven Gentleman, Christine Hofmeister, Juha Kuusela (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, August 25-31, 2002. pp. 29-43.
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“Providing Contextual Information to Pervasive Computing Applications”
Judd, G, Steenkiste, P.
Technical Report, CMU-CS-02-154, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2002
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"Selection and Configuration in Mobile Environments: A Utility-Based Approach"
Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, and Mary Shaw
Fourth Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-4), May 2002.
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"Software Architecture-based Adaptation for Pervasive Systems"
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley Schmerl, João Pedro Sousa, Bridget Spitznagel, Peter Steenkiste, and Ningning Hu
International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS'02): Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing, April 8-11, 2002
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“Unsupervised, Dynamic Identification of Physiological and Activity Context in Wearable Computing”
Krause, A., Smailagic A., Siewiorek D., Farringdon J.
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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“SenSay: A Context-Aware Mobile Phone”
Siewiorek, D., Smailagic A., Furukawa, J., Moraveji N., Reiger K., Shaffer J.
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
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"A Hybrid Location Model with a Computable Location Identifier for Ubiquitous Computing",
Changhao Jiang and  Peter Steenkiste, 
The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2002), September 2002, Goteborg, Sweden.
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“Project Aura: Toward Distraction-Free Pervasive Computing”
Garlan, D., Siewiorek, D., Smailagic, A., Steenkiste, P.
IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2002
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“Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges”
Satyanarayanan, M.
IEEE Personal Communications, August 2001
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“Determining User Location For Context Aware Computing Through the Use of a Wireless LAN Infrastructure”
Small, J., Smailagic, A., Siewiorek, D.
December 2000
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“Using History to Improve Mobile Application Adaptation”
Narayanan, D., Flinn, J., Satyanarayanan, M.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Monterey, CA, December 2000
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"Caching Trust Rather Than Content"
Satyanarayanan, M.
Operating Systems Review, Volume 34, No. 4, October 2000
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“Task-Driven Computing”
Wang, Z, Garlan, D.
Technical Report, CMU-CS-00-154, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2000
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"Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges"
Satyanarayanan, M.
IEEE Personal Communications, 2001
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"Self-Tuned Remote Execution for Pervasive Computing"
Flinn, J., Narayanan, D., Satyanarayanan, M.
Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE HotOs Conference
May 2001, Elmau/Oberbayern, Germany
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"Component-Based Software Engineering in a Pervasive Computing Environment"
David Garlan, and Bradley Schmerl
The 4th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: Component Certification and System Prediction, Toronto, Canada, May 14-15, 2001
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"From Computers Everywhere to Tasks Anywhere: The Aura Approach"
Sousa, J.P. and Garlan, D.
Submitted for Publication
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"Pervasive Computing and the Future of CSCW Systems"
David Garlan
A Position Paper for the CSCW2000 Workshop on Software Architectures for Cooperative Systems,
November, 2000
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