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Item Demo Abstract: Performance of the Latest Generation Powerline Networking for Green Building Applications(ACM New York, 2013-11-11) Taylor, Joseph; Roy, Nirmalya; Kleinschmidt, David; Shirazi, BehroozGreen building applications need to efficiently communicate fine-grained power consumption patterns of a wide variety of consumer-grade appliances for an effective adaptation and percolation of demand response models down to the consumer level appliances. A key inhibitor to the widespread adoption of such demand response policies at the consumer grade appliances level for intelligent building energy management, is the inability of smart plugs/sensors to efficiently communicate and control the power consumption. However since they already connected with the power grid, a natural question arises, whether the power consumption telemetry can be communicated over existing mains wiring. The use of existing wiring produces a simple and cost-effective attractive solution, and avoids many issues observed with wireless mesh networks, such as islands and bottlenecks and helps vacate the increasing congested spectrum. In this paper we explore the feasibility and efficacy of Powerline Communications (PLC) as a backbone of wireless communications in a home environment, both for high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth intensive applications. In this demo we show several state-of-the-art PLC modems' behavior using end-to-end measurements and their performance, throughput and noise characteristics.Item Integrated Lifecycle of IT Services in a Cloud Environment(2009-10-22) Joshi, Karuna Pande; Finin, Tim; Yesha, YelenaVirtualized Service models are now emerging and redefining the way information technology is delivered to end users. Current research is focused on specific pieces like service discovery, composition etc. There is no holistic view of what would constitute a lifecycle of virtualized services delivered on a cloud environment. In this paper, we propose an integrated methodology that covers the entire service lifecycle. We have divided the IT service lifecycle on the cloud into five phases of requirements, discovery, negotiation, composition, and consumption. We describe each phase and it’s sub-phases in detail along with the information that needs to flow between them. We also propose some key metrics that should be tracked for each phase.Item World heritage and the scientific consecration of ‘outstanding universal value’(Sage Publications, 2017-04-25) Elliott, Michael A.; Schmutz, Vaughn; Towson University. Department of Anthropology, Sociology & Criminal JusticeSince World War II, the world heritage movement generated widespread support for preserving various sites of natural and cultural significance deemed to have outstanding universal value (OUV) for humanity. While the designation and evaluation of OUV were initially ambiguous, this process underwent expansive rationalization over time. Building on world society scholarship, we argue that specialized international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) played a particularly prominent role in defining OUV, formalizing the process of evaluation, and reinforcing the legitimacy of world heritage by promoting scientific standards and techniques. To support these claims, we systematically examine 811 ‘advisory body’ evaluations produced by associated INGOs from 1980 to 2010 to illustrate (a) the expansive rationalization of evaluative procedures related to world heritage and (b) the increasing reliance on scientific legitimacy to define and validate OUV, particularly for cultural sites. Overall, our findings lend support to institutional theories of globalization.