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	.: Singapore - MIT Alliance : Computer Science :.
		Today's computer technology is brittle, not only for catastrophic emergencies, but for simple changes, such as installing a new version of the operating system, changing the network vendor, adding a new computer, or coping with a crashed router.
		Failure-oblivious computing help prevent catastrophic cascading errors, in which the failure of a single component propagates to cause the entire system to fail.
		The signals could be processed and analyzed in a stand-alone home computer when the patient is at home, or they could be sent over a wireless network to a grid of public-health computer clusters located in various area hospitals or institutions when he is walking along the street.
	www.comp.nus.edu.sg /~smacs/research/adaptive.htm (4457 words)

	Scenario - TheBestLinks.com - Computing, Event, Italian language, Improvisational theater, ...
		A Scenario (from the Italian, that which is pinned to the scenery) is a brief description of an event.
		In computing, a scenario is a typical interaction between the user and the system or between two software components.
		In business, scenario planning is a methodology developed to augment the strategic planning process whereby several possible future scenarios are developed and explored in great detail, leading to the development of new ideas and contingency plans.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Scenario.html (249 words)

	Applying Dynamic Integration as a Software Infrastructure for Context-Aw are Computing
		Interest in ubiquitous computing has risen over the past few years [25,26,3] and one of the emerging research themes is context-aware computing [1].
		The defining characteristic of ubiquitous computing is the attempt to break away from the traditional desktop interaction paradigm and move computational power into the network and environment that surrounds the user.
		Computer vision researchers have used computational perception techniques in an attempt to match actual facial expressions with some prescribed expressions indicating the state of the human (e.g., smiling, frowning, surprised, etc.) [9].
	www-static.cc.gatech.edu /fce/cyberdesk/pubs/ICSE98/ICSE98.html (6445 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As we moved to considering student-owned computing, we measured what infrastructure would be needed to support the services, tried to imagine sets of core software, and brainstormed on multiple recommended platforms.
		Scenarios There are many combinations of configurations, specifications and support for a student computing environment.
		This scenario maximizes support costs and fails to advance a computing environment in which faculty can be assured student computers run educational software.
	web.mit.edu /is/discovery/ownership/reports/report2.txt (4277 words)

	Analyzing Ethical Scenarios
		Such scenarios, as related to the field of computing, were first illustrated by John Parker, who conducted a workshop attended by a diverse group of professionals, including computer scientists, psychologists, sociologists, and lawyers [Parker, 1977].
		Every computer science major should be entirely familiar and comfortable using this technique by the time they are juniors (in general, those students who have not mastered this approach do not survive to this level!).
		Scenarios in computer science may appear to be unique, but when broken into pieces or distilled into actions irrespective of the hardware or environments involved, may be similar to other real world systems for which ethical issues have largely been resolved.
	cs.millersville.edu /~liffick/scenario.html (4705 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While all of the computers involved in the WWW are connected by a computer network, your web browser in a majority of cases connects ultimately to a single web server.
		Scenario #2: You are driving from Boston to New York on Interstate 95.
		Scenario #4: You just broke up with your boyfriend and are looking for a new potential person to receive your affection.
	chandra.astro.indiana.edu /personal/promise-of-grid-computing.txt (2947 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Quattro Pro 6.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scenarios also can be used for tracking different versions of notebooks over time, letting you have a record of when the data was changed and how.
		When you display a scenario, the cells with changed data are highlighted, and the changed values replace those currently on-screen.
		Update On Block Operations tells the Scenario Manager whether to update all scenarios in the active group when data blocks are moved, inserted, or deleted.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1997/jun97/062297/062297.asp&guid=o8i2gd1y&WordList= (811 words)

	Title page for ETD etd-07012003-155928
		Computing is moving away from the desktop, permeating into many everyday objects and the environments in which we live.
		Many researchers in ubiquitous computing are excited about the potential to profoundly change the way we live by revolutionizing how we interact with information.
		The ultimate ambition of ubiquitous computing technology is to be able to serve users anywhere, at anytime.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /theses/available/etd-07012003-155928 (374 words)

	IBM developerWorks : Autonomic Computing Toolkit overview
		Release 3.1 of the IBM Autonomic Computing Toolkit is a collection of IBM Self-Managing Autonomic Technology components, tools, scenarios, and documentation that is designed for users wanting to learn, adapt, and develop autonomic behavior in their products and systems.
		These tools, technologies, and scenarios can be grouped into three main categories: problem determination, solution installation and deployment, and integrated solutions console.
		The Samples scenario is a teaching tool, introducing the core components that make up the Solution Installation and Deployment architecture, and then relating them together to illustrate the benefits of the architecture.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/autonomic/overview.html (606 words)

	DCA: Computing Nirvana
		A good method for choosing and justifying architectural models for computing is to begin by describing an ideal scenario, "Computing Nirvana", from both the application user and application developer perspective.
		For the benefit of the user, at some point in the future, computers may anticipate our needs and do their work without any, or at most occasional, explicit instruction on our part.
		For the benefit of the developer, computers may develop their own applications, perhaps based on an interview the computer conducts of the user's needs.
	www.princeton.edu /~gjacobs/dca/nirv.html (1060 words)

	Web services on demand: WSLA-driven automated management
		Computing resources can be added or removed from the service in order to meet current or anticipated load.
		Although this is perhaps easiest to visualize in terms of computing power, where processors could be added or removed as needed, utility computing services are not limited to this type of resource.
		Because the task of computing SLA parameters and evaluating contractual obligations may be further split among multiple agents, it is important that each one of these agents receives only the part of the contract that it needs to know to carry out its tasks.
	www.research.ibm.com /journal/sj/431/dan.html (11097 words)

	GRIDtoday: SATYAM LAUNCHES GRID COMPUTING PRACTICE
		Grid computing is the new age technology that helps an enterprise maximize the utilization of its computational resources without additional investments, thus dramatically decreasing computation time, enabling reduced time-to-market and increasing overall productivity.
		Additionally, this model is equipped with Grid computing hardware/software thereby simulating a live Grid environment with 500 Gigaflops computation power.
		Satyam's Grid computing practice has a trained team of professionals and facilities to run applications on their Grid.
	www.gridtoday.com /05/0110/104437.html (662 words)

	Effects of Pervasive Computing on Sustainable Development
		This is especially true for pervasive computing, as the diffusion of this embedded and networked technology is practically irreversible due to costs of change and may therefore limit future development.
		The content of hazardous substances might be uncritical in a single pervasive computing component, but in mass application a release of toxic substances into the environment is to be expected when the components are disposed of in an uncontrolled way or enter recycling streams for materials like paper, cardboard or glass.
		Pervasive computing can also generate stress for various reasons, such as poor usability, disturbance and distraction, the feeling of being under surveillance (privacy issues) or the well-founded fear of misuse of the technology for criminal purposes.
	www.patmedia.net /tbookman/techsoc/Koehler.htm (5702 words)

	Free Sample Article from IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
		Since pervasive computing is expected to become ubiquitous in the coming years, the question arises whether it will support sustainable development or may counteract that aim.
		Direct (primary) environmental effects of pervasive computing also occur during the use phase of electronics, mainly due to the energy consumption of network infrastructures, which is estimated to increase as a result of increasing data traffic generated by pervasive computing.
		Social effects of pervasive computing have to be seen as relevant for sustainable development as ICT is expected to interact intensively with social practices, which may result in profound changes to social rules and structures in the near future.
	www.ieeessit.org /technology_and_society/free_sample_article.asp?ArticleID=1 (6005 words)

	Workscape Project Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Computing and telecommunications are maturing, and the next century promises a shift away from technology-driven general-purpose devices.
		If computing and communication are to become productivity-enhancing tools beyond their current instantiation, we must move from a tool-centric perspective to a work-centric perspective driven by task goals.
		Invisible in that the user is largely unaware of interacting with a computing or communication device (one traditional example is the pen as it relates to the user’s task of writing a memo – the user is focused upon the memo, not upon the operation of the pen itself).
	portolano.cs.washington.edu /proposal (13415 words)

	Facilities Master Plan Scenarios
		This scenario was discussed at the October 30, 2001 Roundtable.
		Computing, Media, and Telecommunications would move to the library, making additional academic space available in Taylor Hall.
		Weakness: This scenario moves Computing, Media, and Telecommunications out of Taylor Hall and away from adjacencies that facilitate administrative computing.
	www.western.edu /acadaff/facilitiesplan/scenarioe.html (191 words)

	4Q04: Semiconductor, Hardware and Systems Forecast Scenarios
		Revenue for the computing platform and semiconductor industries will be lower than previously predicted for 2004 and 2005.
		Gartner Dataquest's scenarios show that 2005 will be relatively slow for capital spending, with either a spending pause or the start of a renewed industry downcycle.
		Gartner Dataquest’s most likely case scenario for the consumer electronics semiconductor market is based upon 2005 being relatively flat because of to generally slow economic growth worldwide affecting consumer spending across the major regions.
	www.gartner.com /DisplayDocument?doc_cd=125562 (1891 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Microsoft Excel 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Scenarios are simply versions of the same set of data, such as the typical best- and worst-case scenarios.
		To work with scenarios, you first need to develop the worksheet you want to use for your scenarios by entering the information shown in the figure.
		(If the Scenario Manager is not open, then choose Scenarios from the Tools menu to redisplay the Scenario Manager before clicking Add.) In the Add Scenario dialog box, type a name, such as Worst Case, in the Scenario Name box and click OK to display the Scenario Values dialog box.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1999/s1007/16s07/16s07.asp (772 words)

	UbiSys '03: System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop
		Ubiquitous computing environments are envisioned as being populated with large numbers of computing devices and sensors to the extent that the physical and computational infrastructures become fully integrated, creating a dynamic programmable environment.
		To fully realize programmable ubiquitous computing environments it is essential to provide services that coordinate software entities and heterogeneous networked devices and provide the low-level functionality needed to enable ubiquitous computing in the general case.
		One of the key issues for debate is the underlying structure of ubiquitous computing middleware.
	ubisys.cs.uiuc.edu /2003 (923 words)

	The Promise of Grid Computing Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a nutshell, grid computing is a way to use many computers connected via a network simultanesouly to solve a single scientific or technical problem.
		Consider this scenario - you are in Hawaii (let's say Kauai because it is where I would like to be right now :-) for vacation and discover while sitting in the hot tub overlooking the ocean that you don't feel so hot.
		Scenario #5: You are a red-blooded American and land at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi.
	chandra.astro.indiana.edu /personal/promise-of-grid-computing.html (3343 words)

	The Problem Determination Log/Trace Scenario Guide contents
		The scenario serves as an educational vehicle for introducing the self-healing attribute of an autonomic environment, as well as providing a demonstration of the technologies involved that actually make it happen.
		Begin scenario: When this command is executed, the scenario is set up and started in the background (see Figure 5).
		Since the Autonomic Computing Toolkit uses a Mappingstring substitution on the MOF file, the parameter used for the log file name has to be associated to the resource model class.
	www.ibm.com /developerworks/autonomic/books/fpv1scn.htm (6594 words)

	Content Switches - Network Infrastructure - Network Computing
		When Network Computing's parent company, CMP Media LLC, decided it was time to replace its first-generation Layer 7 switches, we jumped on board.
		Our testing, therefore, reflected a real corporate scenario, but there was no guarantee that CMP would agree with our conclusions or add any of the participating products to its infrastructure.
		Transaction and connection rates and TTLB were not an issue in our low-load scenario for any of the products except Array's TMX3000, which had problems performing up to expectations even under what we would term a low load of 2,000 established TCP connections.
	www.networkcomputing.com /showitem.jhtml?docid=1603f3 (1064 words)

	Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Autonomic Computing Toolkit is a collection of technologies, tools, scenarios, and documentation that is designed for users wanting to learn, adapt, and develop autonomic behavior in their products and systems.
		The scenario shows how log file information from the managed resource flows to the autonomic manager through use of a sensor, while the autonomic manager analyzes the data and issues corrective action through use of an effector.
		The Problem Determination scenario is included in the Problem Determination Scenario bundle; it provides the customized components to establish the specific scenario as well as demo support code to actually control the demonstration.
	download.boulder.ibm.com /ibmdl/pub/software/dw/autonomic/books/fpv3mst.htm (7316 words)

	Expatriate Indian develops computing grid - HindustanTimes.com - New Economy
		Those who need to do some serious number crunching that their personal computer or even a more powerful computer cannot handle can turn to an Australia-based Indian expatriate for help.
		grid is coordinated by software that mediates different computer operating systems and manages tasks like scheduling and security to create sophisticated virtual computers that work like a team though they may be scattered across the world.
		Peer-to-peer computing - this allows disparate users to dedicate portions of their computers to team up for cooperative processing via the Internet - is mostly attractive to consumers and businesses.
	www.gridbus.org /press/hindustan-times02 (534 words)

	DBMS - January 1996 - Enterprise C/S
		A battle is brewing for dominance of the standard middleware infrastructure for client/server computing.
		Another assumption I would make for this scenario is important: The company must understand how to create a toolset that enables other software companies to build new applications that leverage the environment's infrastructure.
		The complexity of distributed computing will most likely make corporations realize that a large-scale, general-purpose infrastructure is far too complex for any one company to implement and control.
	www.dbmsmag.com /9601d04.html (1413 words)

	Computing
		8 shows a demonstration scenario, and the cells which are allocated at this point in the simulation.
		Since that approach is slow when used for large scale scenarios, we are currently implementing an approach where all relevant data is permanently kept in computer memory.
		Preliminary results indicate that the computing time for this module for the Switzerland scenario improves from about 45 minutes to about 10 minutes.
	www.tu-berlin.de /fb10/ISS/FG4/archive/sim-archive/papers/w-schmid/html/node6.html (587 words)

	Satragon » Scenario Planning
		The “Cortana Lives” scenario is characterized by a high degree of display materiality, and a low degree of biointegration.
		However, the warrior is able to transfer her from computer to computer with a touch of his hand.
		The game designers probably had little idea how prescient their vision of mobile computing was, and how much closer to reality they actually were.
	www.satragon.com /?cat=5 (1388 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing: Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Computing Minimum Equal Sums of Like Power - Includes client software download, computation records, and project description on its research into mathematical problems.
		It is the intension to allow computer resources and data to be shared and to provide a dynamic high availability system for hosting services.
		American Scientist: Collective Wisdom - Article discusses the "early days" (pre-1998) of distributed computing projects, explains the basics of how they work and how to get them to work well, describes some early successes, and considers how CPU cycles may someday become a commodity to be bought, sold or traded.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing/Projects (1220 words)

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