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Most CSCW and groupware systems focus the activities of distributed teams involved in large projects by means of tools for communication and awareness. The activities of small collocated teams are often neglected. Analyzing preliminary requirements of small teams, it is possible to observe the need of tools to help the elaboration of project documentation. This paper presents a multi-agent system...
Current production leanings, such as high product variability, demand advanced manufacturing systems (MSs). An example is the holonic MS (HMS) in which entities (e.g., resources and products) are ldquosmart.rdquo These entities are called holons (HLs), and their interactions are coordinated by holonic control (HC). Indeed, the complexity of HMS has required new design and test tools. In this context,...
This paper presents a methodology for modeling and building an ontology for the domain of neuropediatric physiotherapy. This is an area of great importance for health sciences and includes diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of patients with neurological injuries. The domain knowledge is, by nature, complex, ambiguous and non-standardized. We present formal methods for knowledge acquisition and representation,...
WebAnima is an interface agent specially designed to assist team members of a CSCW application during their daily work based on computers. In WebAnima, the intelligent behavior is guaranteed thanks to a conversational interface and ontologies that support semantic interpretation. We believe that embodied conversational assistants will improve the quality of assistance and increase collaboration between...
This article reports a case study about the development of an ontology used not only to organize the packaging design process of a firm, but also to explicitly express useful business rules in the domain of furniture packaging design. In the presented case, as the firm organized the projects manually, a "classical" building methodology was applied. The term "classical" refers to...
A common problem in organizations is to identify people with the right competencies to form a specialized team, in academic or industrial environments, which is capable of executing a self-managed project of research and development (R & D). This work presents a technique that allows for identifying people who have the most appropriated competencies to form a R & D team extracting information...
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