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Teaching STEM is a promising application domain for game-based instructional methods. In this paper we present a serious game organized as a role playing game: players learn how to inhabit the headspace of someone other than their primary ego identity, offering them the chance to develop a stronger sense of empathy. The same empathy is established between the player and her Intelligent Pedagogical...
In this paper, the WORKPAD project, concluded in 2009, is presented and the main features of the system are highlighted. They are the interplay of process management (i.e., task-driven coordination of operators during emergency situations) with geo-awareness of the team about the area and the team itself (real-time position of colleagues), also based on data integration techniques.
Nowadays, process-aware information systems (PAISs) are widely used for the management of “administrative” processes characterized by clear and well-defined structures. Besides those scenarios, PAISs can be used also in mobile and pervasive scenarios, where process participants can be only equipped with smart devices, such as PDAs. This paper illustrates ROME4EU, a fully-fledged PAIS that can be entirely...
In many pervasive scenarios (e.g., emergency management or health care), operators need to exchange data and information and collaborate in order to carry on a collaborative job, but communication features can be lacking on the spot. Therefore, mobile ad-hoc networks are valuable solutions to let them coordinate. While executing some activities, nodes can move in the area and, hence, disconnect from...
Embedded systems are specialized computers used in larger systems or machines to control equipments such as automobiles, home appliances, communication, control and office machines. Such pervasivity is particularly evident in immersive realities, i.e., scenarios in which invisible embedded systems need to continuously interact with human users, in order to provide continuous sensed information and...
The vision of smart homes for all is taking shape as information technology advances. Our homes are starting to be aware of their state and can react upon events and user's needs, thanks to the readily availability of inter-networked, low power consuming and cheap embedded sensors. Actuators complete the picture, by allowing the home to change its state proactively and interact with the human user.
The increasing of bandwidth capacity and the rising of more active and more demanding Internet users motivate the research of the best solution in P2P multimedia streaming. This paper presents STREAMCOMPLETE, a new architecture and prototype system for mesh-based P2P live video streaming; it realizes a new concept of overlay network's management as well as merges the best practices of tree- and mesh-based...
Human robot interaction factors for controlling remote mobile robots is a recent field of research. In this paper we propose a novel system that dynamically adjusts the interaction between operators and robots according to the mission requirements. In particular we focus on the task allocation service. This service allocates the control of robots deployed in a mission between the artificial agents...
Web services choreography is used to design peer-to-peer applications where each peer is potentially a Web service. It defines the required behavior of participating Web services along with their interactions through message exchanges. Implementing a complex system described by a choreography requires selecting actual Web services whose individual behaviors are compatible with the overall behavior...
Nowadays mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are proposed in many collaborative and mobile scenarios. Despite the effort of the research community on algorithms and implementations mainly targeted to laptops, very few implementations exist for commercial PDAs (i.e., equipped with Windows Mobile). In this work, a practical study on one of the few available and running implementations has been conducted,...
Process management systems (PMSs) can be used not only in classical business scenarios, but also in highly dynamic and uncertain environments, for example, in supporting operators during emergency management for coordinating their activities. In such challenging situations, processes should be adapted in order to cope with anomalous situations, including connection anomalies and task faults. This...
In complex emergency scenarios, teams from various emergency-response organizations must collaborate. These teams include both first responders, such as police and fire departments, and those operators who coordinate the effort from operational centers. The Workpad architecture consists of a front- and a back-end layer. The front-end layer is composed of several front-end teams of first responders,...
Pervasive computing environments are nowadays more and more used as a supporting tool for cooperative workflows, e.g., in emergency management. A typical problem in these scenarios is the synthesis of workflows in presence of sets of services (hosted on mobile devices) with constrained behaviors, just before the collaborating team is dropped off in the operation field. In this paper, we propose a...
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks are used in many scenarios (e.g., emergency management) for supporting collaborative work of operators. But this requires either (i) continuous connections, or at least (ii) the possibility to foresee that a device is going out to disconnect (e.g., in order to locally cache important data needed for the following activities, etc.). Therefore a basic problem is how to predict...
In this paper, we present a recently funded European research project, namely WORKPAD, that aims at designing and developing an innovative software infrastructure (software, models, services, etc.) for supporting collaborative work of human operators in emergency/disaster scenarios. In such scenarios, different teams, belonging to different organizations, need to collaborate with one other to reach...
The promise of Web services is to enable the composition of new distributed applications/solutions: when no available service can satisfy a client request, (parts of) available services can be composed and orchestrated in order to satisfy such a request. Service composition involves two different issues: the synthesis, in order to synthesize, either manually or automatically, a specification of how...
The tutorial aims at providing a deep comprehension of the Web service composition problem and automated techniques to tackle it. Web service composition is currently one the most hyped and addressed issue in the service oriented computing. Starting from an analysis of current technologies and standards for Web service composition, the tutorial will lead the attendees to consider formal models at...
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