Computing within limits

B Nardi, B Tomlinson, DJ Patterson, J Chen… - Communications of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Computing within limits Page 1 86 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | OCTOBER 2018 | VOL.
61 | NO. 10 review articles COMPUTING RESEARCHERS AND practitioners are often seen …

[PDF][PDF] Design of mobile phone services to support farmers in developing countries

R Anjum - 2015 - dspace.uef.fi
This study tries to figure out the better understanding of how could “Design of mobile phone
services support farmers in developing countries” by find out the answers of the research …

Coproducing weather forecast information with and for smallholder farmers in Ghana: evaluation and design principles

T Gbangou, R Sarku, EV Slobbe, F Ludwig… - Atmosphere, 2020 - mdpi.com
Many West African farmers are struggling to cope with changing weather and climatic
conditions. This situation limits farmers' ability to make optimal decisions for food and …

Improving quality-of-service in cloud/fog computing through efficient resource allocation

SB Akintoye, A Bagula - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in
the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management …

Cooperative data muling from ground sensors to base stations using UAVs

E Tuyishimire, A Bagula, S Rekhis… - 2017 IEEE Symposium …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data muling using UAVs/drones is currently emerging as an alternative to the traditional
traffic engineering techniques used in wireless sensor networks, when wireless …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variability and predictability of agro-meteorological indices: Tailoring onset of rainy season estimation to meet farmers' needs in Ghana

T Gbangou, F Ludwig, E van Slobbe, L Hoang… - Climate Services, 2019 - Elsevier
Reliable information on onset of the rainy season is important for local agriculture planning
in Ghana. We examine the (i) trend and variability of onset in local observations to better …

An innovative drought early warning system for sub-Saharan Africa: Integrating modern and indigenous approaches

M Masinde - African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and …, 2015 - journals.co.za
Droughts remain the number one disaster in Africa; drought is responsible for over 88% of
all the types of disasters that people are affected by. An effective drought early warning …

Weather information, farm-level climate adaptation and farmers' adaptive capacity: Examining the role of information and communication technologies

P Chetri, U Sharma, PV Ilavarasan - Environmental Science & Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous studies on farmers' capacity to adapt to weather and climate variability tend to
follow the resource endowment perspective and ignore the role of information. The paper …

Trajectory planing for cooperating unmanned aerial vehicles in the iot

E Tuyishimire, A Bagula, S Rekhis, N Boudriga - IoT, 2022 - mdpi.com
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in data transport has attracted a lot of
attention and applications, as a modern traffic engineering technique used in data sensing …

Exploring the information needs of Somaliland pastoralists: design considerations for digital climate adaptation services

JM Rigby, K Stawarz, C Preist, A Saeed… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Pastoralists in Somaliland are suffering the impacts of climate change, and need relevant,
timely, and practical information about water resources and pastures. However, these …