Publications

Home Energy Management

• M. Law, S. Rollins, N. Banerjee, and A. Joshi, "Short Paper: Visualization-assisted Insights into Home Energy Usage", in Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis 2015), Sardinia, Italy, May 2015.
  • G. Irwin, N. Banerjee, A. Hurst, S. Rollins, "Contextual Insights into Home Energy Relationships", in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy 2015), St. Louis, MO, USA, March 2015.
  • S. Rollins, N. Banerjee, L. Choudhury, D. Lachut, "A System for Collecting Activity Annotations for Home Energy Management", Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 15, December 2014, p153-165.
  • D. Lachut, N. Banerjee, and S. Rollins, "Predictability of Energy Use in Homes", in proceedings of the International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 14), Dallas, TX, USA, November 2014.
  • G. Irwin, N. Banerjee, A. Hurst, S. Rollins, "Who Has My Data? Illuminating Renters’ Smart Meter Privacy Concerns", in poster proceedings of the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 14), Menlo Park, CA, July 2014.
  • G. Irwin, N. Banerjee, A. Hurst, S. Rollins, "Understanding Context Governing Energy Consumption in Homes", ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), Work-In-Progress.
  • S. Rollins and N. Banerjee, "Using Rule Mining to Understand Appliance Energy Consumption Patterns", in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014), Budapest, Hungary, March, 2014.
• S. Rollins, N. Banerjee, L. Choudhury, and D. Lachut, "Poster Abstract: An In Situ System for Annotation of Home Energy Data", in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 13), Rome, Italy, November 2013.
• D. Lachut, L. Choudhury, K. Moran, S. Piel, Y. Xiong, N. Banerjee, and S. Rollins, "Minimizing Intrusiveness in Home Energy Measurement", in Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys 12), Toronto, Canada, November 2012. Best Paper Nominee (top 6 of 54 submissions)
• N. Banerjee, S. Rollins, and K. Moran, "Automating Energy Management in Green Homes", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks (HomeNets 11), Toronto, Canada, August 2011. Best Paper Award

CS Education

• S. Engle and S. Rollins, "Expert Code Review and Mastery Learning in a Software Development Course", Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 28, Number 4, April 2013, p139-147.
• S. Rollins, "Introducing Networking and Distributed Systems Concepts in an Undergraduate-Accessible Wireless Sensor Networks Course", in Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011), Dallas, TX, USA, March 2011.

Mobile Computing and Energy Management

• A. Nelson, J. Schmandt, P. Kumar, W. Wilkins, D. Lachut, N. Banerjee, S. Rollins, J.P. Parkerson, and V. Varadan, "Wearable Multi-sensor Gesture Recognition in Assistive Devices for Paralysis Patients", in Proceedings of IEEE Sensors, Baltimore, MD, November, 2013.
• S. Rollins, J.D. Porten, K. Brisbin, and C. Chang-Yit, "A Battery-Aware Algorithm for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications", Mobile Networks and Applications: Volume 17, Issue 3 (2012), Page 353-364, Springer, June, 2012.
• S. Rollins and C. Chang-Yit, "A Battery-Aware Algorithm for Supporting Mobile Collaborative Applications", in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom '08), Orlando, FL, November, 2008.
• N. Banerjee, A. Rahmati, M.D. Corner, S. Rollins, and L. Zhong, "Users and Batteries: Interactions and Adaptive Energy Management in Mobile Systems", in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 07), Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2007.
• N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins, and D. Ganesan, "Triage: Balancing Energy Consumption and Quality of Service in a Microserver", in Proceedings of The Fifth International ACM/USENIX Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '07), Puerto Rico, June, 2007.
• D. Tilkidjieva, N. Banerjee, M. Kazandjieva, S. Rollins, and M. Corner, "LLAMA: An Adaptive Strategy for Performing Background Tasks on Mobile Devices", in poster proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2006), Semiahmoo Resort, WA, USA, April, 2006.
• J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. Corner, and S. Rollins, "Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices", in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 05), Seattle, WA, USA, June, 2005.
• S. Rollins, K. Almeroth, D. Milojicic, and K. Nagaraja, "Power-Aware Data Management for Small Devices", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM 2002), pages 80-87, Atlanta, GA, USA, September, 2002.

Peer-to-Peer Computing

• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth, "Evaluating Performance Tradeoffs in a One-to-Many Peer Content Distribution Architecture", Journal of Internet Technology, Volume 5, Number 4, pages 373-387, 2004.
• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth, "Pixie: A Jukebox Architecture to Support Efficient Peer Content Exchange", in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2002, pages 179-188, Juan Les Pins, France, December, 2002.

Internet Technologies and Multimedia

• S. Rollins, R. Chalmers, J. Blanquer, and K. Almeroth, "The Active Information System(AIS): A Model for Developing Scalable Web Services", in Proceedings of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2002), pages 174-179, Kauai, HI, August 2002.
• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth, "Seminal: Additive Semantic Content for Multimedia Streams", in Proceedings of Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2002), pages 252-257, Kauai, HI, August 2002.
• S. Rollins and N. Sundaresan, "A Framework for Creating Customized Multi-Modal Interfaces for XML Documents", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pages 933-936, New York City, NY, July 2000.
• S. Rollins and N. Sundaresan, "AVoN Calling: AXL for Voice-enabled Web Navigation", in Proceedings of the 9th International World Wide Web Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2000. Also appears in Computer Networks, Volume 33, Issues 1-6, pages 533-551, June 2000.
• M. Neary, S. Brydon, P. Kmiec, S. Rollins, and P. Cappello, "Javelin++: Scalability Issues in Global Computing", in Proceedings of ACM 1999 Java Grande Conference, pages 171 - 180, San Francisco, California, June 12-14, 1999. Extended version appears in Concurrency: Practice and Experience, Volume 12, pages 727-753, 2000.

Educational Technology

• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth, "Lessons Learned Deploying a Digital Classroom", Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 169-185, 2004.
• J. Humfrey, S. Rollins, K. Almeroth, and B. Bimber, "Managing Complexity in a Networked Learning Environment ", short paper at the ED MEDIA Conference, Honolulu, HI, June, 2003.
• K. Almeroth, S. Rollins, Z. Shen, and B. Bimber, "Creating a Demarcation Point Between Content Production and Encoding in a Digital Classroom ", short paper at the ED MEDIA Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June, 2003.
• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth, "Deploying an Infrastructure for Technologically Enhanced Learning", Outstanding Paper at the ED MEDIA Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, June 2002.
• S. Rollins and K. Almeroth "A Model for Distributed Collaboration in a Distance Learning Application", Poster Presentation, Workshop on Networked Group Communication (NGC 2000), Palo Alto, CA, November, 2000.

Non-refereed Publications

• D. Tilkidjieva, N. Banerjee, M. Kazandjieva, S. Rollins, and M. Corner, "LLAMA: An Adaptive Strategy for Utilizing Excess Energy to Perform Background Tasks on Mobile Devices",Technical Report 06-44, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, September, 2006.
• K. Nagaraja, S. Rollins, and M. Khambatti, "Looking beyond the Legacy of Napster and Gnutella," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 3, 2006, art. no. 0306-o3005.
• N. Banerjee, J. Sorber, M. D. Corner, S. Rollins, and D. Ganesan. "Triage: A Power-Aware Software Architecture for Tiered Microservers", Technical Report 05-22. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA. April, 2005.
• J. Sorber, N. Banerjee, M. Corner, and S. Rollins, "Turducken: Hierarchical Power Management for Mobile Devices", Technical Report 05-01. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA. January, 2005.
• S. Rollins, Enabling Content-Driven Applications in Resource-Constrained Environments, PhD Dissertation, University of California at Santa Barbara, June, 2003.
• D. Milojicic, V. Kalogeraki, R. Lukose, K. Nagaraja, J. Pruyne, B. Richard, S. Rollins, and Z, Xu, "Peer-to-Peer Computing", HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2002-57, March, 2002.
• S. Rollins, Audio XmL: Aural Interaction with XML Documents, Master's Thesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, March, 2000.