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Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is a rapidly growing area of global research and funding with a history for emphasizing the role technology will play in changing scientific work practices. This paper proposes a group-theoretic perspective on small group collaboration that is informative to CI research and the design of CI environments. To illustrate the relevancy of a group-theoretic perspective to CI, this...
An Integrated Coordination Problem involves solving multiple related subproblems that collectively satisfy the requirements of a user, including subproblems that depend on the user's participation to solve. Fundamental challenges in solving such a problem include defining mechanisms to solve the individual subproblems, formulating the information and control flow between these mechanisms that supports...
The contemporary workplace is characterized by all kinds of (synchronous and asynchronous) human interactions both within and across organizations like meetings, discussions, consultations, conversations etc. Although such interactions are an essential part of a modern organization's business processes, current research on business processes focuses mainly on the sequence of activities or tasks within...
In environmental crisis enterprises’ propensity to collaborate plays a crucial role. To understand the adoption of collaborative systems, it is of great importance to know about economical effects of collaboration itself. Decision makers should be able to evaluate potential drawbacks and advantages of collaboration: strategies may be seen as a mixture of cost reduction, product differentiation and...
Rigidly pre-planned business processes are applied in the field of production planning and product development to coordinate the collaboration of single enterprises. Each step in these workflows is precisely scheduled, accounting for external constraints such as availability of material, delivery dates, and efficiency of humans and machines. However, finally all these steps are performed, or at least...
Services have become increasingly important in today's Web-based applications. Users can access services in an anytime, anywhere manner using a wide variety of mobile devices. Mobile services are a key driver in today's telecommunication market, even though the potential of mobile services has not been fully exploited in existing telecommunication systems. A main driver in these markets are context-...
This communication presents a collaborative experience between four Spanish centers: the School of Engineering (ETSE) and the Sports Services Area (SAF) both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) jointly with two centers of the Technical University of Catalonia, the high school from Vilanova i la Geltru (EPSEVG) and the high school in Terrassa (ETSEIAT). The idea behind this collaboration...
In modular systems consisting of partially independent components the application of full central control is usually both undesirable and impossible. But this makes subunit coordination and overall system coherence maintenance difficult. The paper gives an overview of various potential approaches to alleviate that problem, based mostly on human / organizational research literature but encouraging...
We discuss lessons learned in the development and application of the Collaborative Experimentation Environment (CEE), a simulation-based environment for conducting multi-agency human-in-the-loop (HITL) experiments. Experiences across three different net-centric experiments (NETEXs) are summarized and the potential value of experimentation for improving multi-agency collaboration is reviewed.
In this paper, we describe how a semiotic ladder, together with a supportive trust agent, can be used to address “soft” trust issues in the context of collaborative Virtual Organisations (VO). The intention is to offer all parties better support for trust (as reputation) management including the reduction of risk and improved reliability of VO e-services. The semiotic ladder is intended to support...
E-education is becoming a reality that seems, because of use of technology for teaching and learning, to be more real for students than for teachers. In this contribution we on the one hand take a look at e-learning at the mezzo-level from the perspective of educational institutions. We tried to elaborate where they face obstacles, which are they and what mechanisms they work by. We focus on human...
A meaningful e-marketplace (MEMP) is a common business information space where computer agents can faithfully deliver the true meanings of e-trade with each other on behalf of their human masters. Partial understanding of any received e-trade information is forbidden since it hides unfavorable legal consequences. MEMP is a new concept. This paper discusses it by putting forward a framework, which...
Great changes have taken place in our society and economy since the electronic commerce came into being. The paper first gives the definition of electronic commerce. Based on the social development, commerce theory, system science and information technology, this paper then estimates the influence factors on electronic commerce. Finally the author predicts the tendency analysis of electronic commerce...
This paper presents a work in progress related to the knowledge and competence management techniques applicable in an electronic systems engineering company. It also discusses the role of the university-industry collaboration in the knowledge management process.
In Portugal, the organisations responsible for the internal control of the State's financial administration need to progressively optimise their human resources in order to maximise their effectiveness. Part of this important responsibility relates to competence management and the assignment of their most suitable human resources to the tasks that insure their mission accomplishment. Such endeavour...
Robots do not have any capability of taking moral responsibility. At the same time industrial robotics is entering a new era with ??intelligent?? robots sharing workbench with humans. Teams consisting of humans and industrial robots are no longer science fiction. The biggest worry in this scenario is the fear of humans losing control and robots running amok. We believe that the current way of implementing...
We present an application of multi-agent to the problem of software project schedule execution evolution, i.e. performing an automatic schedule monitoring and handling contingencies that result in project delivered on time, and required specifications. In a software project setting each involved individual can be represented by three cooperative agents: a proxy, a bookkeeper and a scheduler. These...
We are interested in collaboration domains between a robot and a human partner, the partners share a common mission without an explicit communication about their plans. The decision process of the robot agent should consider the presence of its human partner. Also, the robot planning should be flexible to human comfortability and all possible changes in the shared environment. To solve the problem...
Importance of developing human adaptive robots or systems is increasing these days. To accomplish it, we have to clarify features of human-human communication. In this study, we analyzed human speech while completing computerized collaborate task to clarify how humans speak in collaborative work. We extracted questioning speeches from conversations using CLAN, and classified them into four categories...
Greater emphasis at NASA is being given to robotic exploration. The sophistication of robots is increasing while their cost is decreasing in comparison to human controllers. Because of this, not only are robots and spacecraft being given more autonomy, but concepts for multiple robots and spacecraft to work together to perform exploration are being developed. Autonomy alone though, absent autonomicity,...
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