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ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Back to Basic; The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language
Back to Basic; The History, Corruption, and Future of the Language
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PLDI '03 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 conference on Programming language design and implementation
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WSNA '03 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international conference on Wireless sensor networks and applications
ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks Topologies
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Contiki - A Lightweight and Flexible Operating System for Tiny Networked Sensors
LCN '04 Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks
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DMSN '04 Proceeedings of the 1st international workshop on Data management for sensor networks: in conjunction with VLDB 2004
TinyDB: an acquisitional query processing system for sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special Issue: SIGMOD/PODS 2003
Platform based design for wireless sensor networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
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IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
Lucid dreaming: reliable analog event detection for energy-constrained applications
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
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Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
MacroLab: a vector-based macroprogramming framework for cyber-physical systems
Proceedings of the 6th ACM conference on Embedded network sensor systems
IPSN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Macro-programming wireless sensor networks using Kairos
DCOSS'05 Proceedings of the First IEEE international conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
High abstraction level design and implementation framework for wireless sensor networks
SAMOS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded Computer Systems: architectures, Modeling, and Simulation
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Sensor networks have the potential to empower domain experts from a wide range of fields. However, presently they are notoriously difficult for these domain experts to program, even though their applications are often conceptually simple. We address this problem by applying the BASIC programming language to sensor networks and evaluating its effectiveness. BASIC has proven highly successful in the past in allowing novices to write useful programs on home computers. Our contributions include a user study evaluating how well novice (no programming experience) and intermediate (some programming experience) users can accomplish simple sensor network tasks in BASIC and in TinyScript (a principally event-driven high-level language for node-oriented programming) and an evaluation of power consumption issues in BASIC. 45--55% of novice users can complete simple tasks in BASIC, while only 0--17% can do so in TinyScript. In both languages, users generally are most successful using imperative loop-oriented programming. The use of an interpreter, such as our BASIC implementation, has little impact on the power consumption of applications in which computational demands are low. Further, when in final form, BASIC can be compiled to reduce power consumption even further.