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Jianhua MA
Refereed Publications
  1. Jianhua Ma, Laurence T. Yang, Bernady O. Apduhan, Runhe Huang, Leonard Barolli and Makoto Takizawa, “Towards a Smart World and Ubiquitous Intelligence: A Walkthrough from Smart Things to Smart Hyperspaces and UbicKids”, International Journal of Pervasive Comp. and Comm., 1(1), March 2005. pp. 53-68.
    Abstract - Following ubiquitous computers, sensors, e-tags, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both cyberspaces and real spaces. It is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence or computational intelligence pervasion in the physical world filled with smart things. In this paper, we discuss the potential trends and related challenges toward the smart world and ubiquitous intelligence from smart things to smart spaces and then to smart hyperspaces.
  2. Jianhua Ma, B. O. Apduhan and Laurence T. Yang, “Smart Hyperspaces and Project Ubikids”, in IEEE CS Proceedings of the 19th Int’l IEEE Conference on Advanced Information Network and Applications (AINA'05), Vol. 2, Taipei, March 2005. pp. 574-579.
    Abstract - A smart space is an electronics-enhanced physical environment that can sense the existence of users and other entities, and provide them the right services, in the right way, at the right time. The next research issue to emerge, we believe, is to interconnect and integrate these isolated smart spaces together into a higher level space known as a hyperspace. This paper explains our motivations and designs in building a specific smart hyperspace, called Ubikids, to assist parents and provide services to take care of their kids.
  3. Jianhua Ma, Jeneung Lee, Kotaro Yamanouchi and Akira Nishizono, “A Smart Ambient Sound Aware Environment for Be Quiet Reminding”, in IEEE CS Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Int’l Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 2, Fukuoka, July 2005. pp. 412-416.
    Abstract - This paper presents a prototype of a smart sound aware environment that captures ambient sounds, analyzes sound situations and gives a be-quiet reminder to someone who generates sound exceeding certain volume level and disturbing others in the same site. It shows the microphone net to sense sound data, the speaker net to send be-quiet reminders, and discusses how sound data is captured and processed and when a be-quiet reminder decision is made with analyzing contexts of sounds and users in a room.
  4. Jianhua Ma, Akito Nakamura and Runhe Huang, “A Random ID Update Scheme to Protect Location Privacy in RFID-based Student Administration Systems”, in IEEE CS Proceedings of the 16th DEXA/NBiS-2005, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2005. pp. 67-71.
    Abstract - Recently the RFID has been received great attentions and gotten wide applications in many different areas including some administration systems. However, a RFID tag may infringe on its owner’s location privacy because of its traceability. Therefore, location privacy problems in RFID-based student administration systems become a critical issue. This paper proposes a safe, fast and low cost scheme in which a hash value is generated from a secret ID and a random number in a RFID tag by using a cheap hash circuit.
  5. Jianhua Ma, “Smart u-Things – Challenging Real World Complexity”, in IPSJ Symposium Series Vol. 2005, No. 19, Proc. of DPSWS13, Okinawa, November 30 - December 2, 2005. pp. 146-150.
    Abstract - The real physical things are called u-things if they are attached, embedded or blended with computers, networks, and/or some other devices such as sensors, actors, e-tags and so on. Smart u-things are ones that can sense, compute, communicate and take some responsive or automatic actions/reactions/proactions according to their goals, situated contexts, users’ needs, etc. The article is devoted to possible challenges in smart u-things’ research in terms of real world complexity. The challenges cover sufficiently and precisely detecting surrounding situations, anticipating users’ needs, finding the dynamic relations between things, building common knowledge to u-things, letting u-things self-aware, and making looped decisions for error corrections.
  6. Nobuhiro Nakamura, Leonard Barolli, Souichirou Takahama, Kaoro Sugita, Jianhua Ma and Arjan Durresi, “Implementation of a Pure P2P Collaboration Multiplatform and Its Applications”, Journal of Interconnection Networks, World Scientific, Vol. 6, No. 3, September 2005. pp. 229-244.
    Abstract - In our previous work, we implemented a pure P2P groupware framework called TOMSCOP that offers four types of services: synchronous message transportation, peer room administration, peer communication support and application space management. In this paper we show its extension version, called Multi-Platform P2P System (MPPS), which can operate very smoothly in the UNIX Solaris 9 OS, LINUX Sure 9.1 OS, Mac OSX, and Windows XP.
  7. Katsuhiro Takata, Yusuke Shina, Hiraku Komuro, Masataka Tanaka, Masanobu Ide and Jianhua Ma, “Designing a Context-aware System to Detect Dangerous Situations in School Routes for Kids Outdoor Safety Care”, in Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3824, December 2005. pp. 1016-1025.
    Abstract - This research, as a part of UbicKids Project, is focused on designing a context-aware system that dynamically detects the possible dangerous situations in the routes where kids go to and return from schools, and provides prompt advices to kids who may encounter some dangerous situations. Based on analyses of typical dangerous situations in school routes, the paper then shows the system architecture and discusses about danger-related context information processing including context description, representation and presentation.
  8. Kei Nakanishi, Makoto Setozaki, Jianhua Ma and Runhe Huang, “A Java-based RFID Service Framework with Semantic Data Binding between Real and Cyber Spaces”, in Springer's Lecture Note in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3823, December 2005. pp. 365-374.
    Abstract - This paper presents a Java-based framework that offers a set of general services to support various RFID systems for different purposes and application scenarios. The framework emphasizes on the semantic data binding for contextual information mapping between real and cyber spaces. The Java interface classes are provided to support general communications among a RFID, a reader and an application. Real and cyber spaces are synchronized via dynamic and real-time mapping from symbolic strings or IDs to the semantic XML data representations.
Other Publications
  1. Jianhua Ma, “Ubiquitous Intelligence – The Intelligence Revolution”, ID People Magazine, Published by On Publishing SA, Belgium, April 2005.

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