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Paper accepted at PerCom 2024!

Our paper on a benchmark to evaluate thermal comfort provision systems on smart buildings has been accepted at PerCom 2024. More information at the PerCom 2024 website.

Co-zyBench: Using Co-Simulation and Digital Twins to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision in Smart Buildings

Jun Ma (Telecom SudParis, France); Dimitrije Panic (Telecom SudParis, France); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, France)

Paper accepted at Midd4DT@Middleware 2023!

Our paper on a benchmark to evaluate thermal comfort provision systems on smart buildings has been accepted at the 1st International Workshop on Middleware for Digital Twin (Midd4DT) collocated with Middleware 2023. More information at the Midd4DT 2023 website.

DEMSA: a DT-enabled Middleware for Self-adaptive Smart Spaces

Jun Ma (Telecom SudParis, France); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, France); Ajay Kattepur (Ericsson AI Research, India); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Denis Conan (Telecom SudParis, France);

Research Presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference For Minoritized Scientists 2023 in Phoenix, Arizona

This year, Ruhshana received the opportunity to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference For Minoritized Scientists Conference (ABRCMS 2023) to present her group’s research poster focused on analyzing health conditions, privacy, and utility tradeoffs in smart home devices. ABRCMS took place in Phoenix, Arizona.

Paper on genAI and privacy published on arXiv

Our paper on genAI and privacy has been published on arXiv. More information at the arxiv

GENAIPABENCH: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants

Aamir Hamid(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Hemanth Reddy Samidi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Primal Pappachan (Portland State University, Portland, USA); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA);

Paper on privacy policies and IoT published on arXiv

Our paper on privacy policies of IoT devices has been published on arXiv. More information at the arxiv

PrivacyLens: A Framework to Collect and Analyze the Landscape of Past, Present, and Future Smart Device Privacy Policies

Aamir Hamid(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Hemanth Reddy Samidi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Primal Pappachan (Portland State University, Portland, USA); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA);