Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Reconfigurable Context-Sensitive Middleware for Pervasive Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing
The Vision of Autonomic Computing
Computer
Organic computing: on the feasibility of controlled emergence
Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Persistent Computing Systems as Continuously Available, Reliable, and Secure Systems
ARES '06 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
Context-Aware Computing Applications
WMCSA '94 Proceedings of the 1994 First Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Information security underlying transparent computing: Impacts, visions and challenges
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
AHSEN: autonomic healing-based self management engine for network management in hybrid networks
GPC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
Research challenges and perspectives on Wisdom Web of Things (W2T)
The Journal of Supercomputing
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In recent years, a variety of new computing paradigms have been proposed for various purposes. It is true that many of them intend to and really can gratify some of the people sometime, somewhere; a few of them can even gratify some of the people anytime, anywhere. However, at present, none of the computing paradigms intend to gratify all the people anytime, anywhere. With the rapid advance of information technology and the spread of information services, the IT disparity in age, social standing, and race of the people has been expanding and has become a critical social problem of the 21st century. Thus, we have a fundamental question: Can we construct, in a unified methodology, a computing environment that can gratify all the people in all situations, all places and all the time? We propose a novel and inclusive computing paradigm, named ubisafe computing, for studying and providing possible solutions to the above problem. The ultimate goal of ubisafe computing is to build a computing environment in which all people and organizations can benefit from ubiquitous services anytime anywhere with assured and desired satisfaction without worrying or thinking about safety. That is, the ubisafe computing vision emphasizes two basic aspects: ubiquitous safety and ubiquitous satisfaction to all people in all situations. This paper presents the motivations for the ubisafe computing vision but focuses on one basic aspect of ubiquitous safety that covers reliability, security, privacy, persistency, trust, risk, out of control, and other watchfulness while considering novel, essential ubicomp or percomp features of unobtrusive computers, diverse users/people and life-like systems.