{"title":"Real-time building occupancy sensing using neural-network based sensor network","authors":"Tobore Ekwevugbe, N. Brown, V. Pakka, Denis Fan","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611339","url":null,"abstract":"Current occupancy sensing technologies may limit the effectiveness of buildings controls, due to a number of issues ranging from unreliable data, sensor drift, privacy concerns, and insufficient commissioning. More effective control of Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC) systems may be possible using a smart and adaptive sensing network for occupancy detection, capable of turning off services out of hours, and not over-ventilating, thus enabling energy savings, and not under-ventilating during occupied periods, giving comfort and health benefits. A low-cost and non-intrusive sensor network was deployed in an open-plan office, combining information such as sound level, case temperature, carbon-dioxide (Co2) and motion, to estimate occupancy numbers, while an infrared camera was implemented to establish ground truth occupancy levels. Symmetrical uncertainty analysis was used for feature selection, and a genetic based search to evaluate an optimal sensor combination. Selected multi-sensory features were fused using a neural network. From initial results, estimation accuracy reaching up to 75% for occupied periods was achieved. The proposed system offers promising opportunities for improved comfort control and energy efficiency in buildings.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129105244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Azadeh, Morteza Saberi, N. Z. Atashbar, Elizabeth Chang, P. Pazhoheshfar
{"title":"Z-AHP: A Z-number extension of fuzzy analytical hierarchy process","authors":"A. Azadeh, Morteza Saberi, N. Z. Atashbar, Elizabeth Chang, P. Pazhoheshfar","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611344","url":null,"abstract":"Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) under uncertain environment is still an open issue. The objective of this study is to propose a new AHP method based on Z-number. First, Z-number are taken into consideration. Zadeh [1] proposed a notion, namely Z-number, which is an order pair of fuzzy numbers (A, B). The first component, A, plays the role of a fuzzy restriction and the second component B is a reliability of the first component. It is new concept which has more power to describe the knowledge of human being and will be widely used in the uncertain information process [2, 3]. Second, a new AHP method based on Z-number is proposed to deal with linguistic decision making problems. Finally, by Z-number analytical hierarchy process (Z-number-AHP) a model is developed to search the criteria's for the evaluation of best universities.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"20 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data migration ecosystem for big data invited paper","authors":"Koong Wah Yan, N. Perumal, T. Dillon","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611352","url":null,"abstract":"Data Migration is the process of moving data from a system or systems to a new environment. Often, it is a sub-activity of a business application deployment. Big data is defined as data that is huge, has heterogeneous data dictionaries and involves complex manipulation. Due to nature of the process complexity and its resources hungry approach in migrating Big Data, special attention is required to have a proven methodology and ecosystem to govern the process. The Data Migration Ecosystem for Big Data is the productive set of interacting processes, practices and environments, to collect data from one location, storage medium, or hardware/software system, to cleanse, transform and transfer it to another. The processes and practices are governed by rules and disciplines, with the goal of ensuring information is complete, of high accuracy and consistent. This paper is based on our experience in migrating data for a Malaysia government agency, which involves approximately 1 billion rows of data from 31 heterogeneous sources / systems. Some of the data migrated was created in the seventies (1970), for which the business logic has since been enhanced or changed. The challenge is further complicated by available data being from proprietary databases that are non-RDMS compliance and includes data that is manually maintained in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117226188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CENDARI: Establishing a digital ecosystem for historical research","authors":"R. Gartner, M. Hedges","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611330","url":null,"abstract":"The CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) project, which aims to create a research infrastructure for World War I and medieval history, is examined as a example digital ecosystem. The diverse information requirements of these two communities are met by a strategy which combines newly devised approaches to metadata and tools for data integration and ontology development. The ways in which this strategy produces an environment which conforms to the notion of a digital ecosystem is also examined.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"2 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131840321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vincent Blijleven, J. Angeren, S. Jansen, S. Brinkkemper
{"title":"An evolutionary economics approach to ecosystem dynamics","authors":"Vincent Blijleven, J. Angeren, S. Jansen, S. Brinkkemper","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611323","url":null,"abstract":"Biology and evolution lie at the heart of the ecosystem metaphor that is recurrently applied in the digital era. Although the evolution and analogy with evolutionary biology is acknowledged within the research domains of business ecosystems and digital ecosystems, several key definitions and self-organizing properties of ecosystems have not been fully explored. In addition' the diffusion process of radical innovations altering the structure of an ecosystem remains elusive. This paper addresses this deficiency through a cross-fertilization of multiple research domains, by introducing evolutionary economics concepts based on insights from biology. The research synthesis presented serves for the introduction of a novel perspective on ecosystem analysis. Practitioners will gain insight in how to apply concepts from evolutionary economics when determining their position in an ecosystem. Trade-offs can then be considered and balanced to positively impact firm performance as well as the ecosystem in which the firm operates.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114555935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards automated identification and analysis of argumentation structures in the decision corpus of the German Federal Constitutional Court","authors":"Constantin Houy, Tim Niesen, P. Fettke, P. Loos","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611332","url":null,"abstract":"Argumentation is an essential task in every scientific discipline. The development of strong and convincing argumentation as well as the analysis of existing argumentation structures is important in the field of humanities, and especially in the field of jurisprudence. Judicial argumentation requires sophisticated intellectual effort and the knowledge of as much potentially relevant background information as possible. Considering that the fulfillment of this task is limited by the natural human information processing capacity, the field of digital humanities investigates how such information-intensive and time-consuming tasks can be supported by computers. Against the background of the ever-growing availability of different corpora of jurisdiction in Germany, a software prototype supporting automated identification, analysis and recommendation of argumentation structures in electronically available corpora of jurisdiction is currently developed in the project ARGUMENTUM. In this article, we present the basic concept for the preparation and processing of the decision corpus of the German Federal Constitutional Court which shall provide the basis for the future ARGUMENTUM prototype.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122573369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software ecosystems governance to enable IT architecture based on software asset management","authors":"B. Albert, R. Santos, C. Werner","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611329","url":null,"abstract":"Information Technology (IT) supports companies' business processes and decision making through the use of technologies and tools that are provided by suppliers. Companies that are suppliers and consumers establish relationships through contracts of purchasing products and consulting, for example. These relationships, i.e., the companies involved and the information exchanged between the parties are considered elements of Software Ecosystems (SECOs). All of these elements can be considered SECO assets and need to be supported via SECO governance since their organization and evolution represent an IT Architecture. So, IT companies or their IT divisions can use the ISO/IEC 19770 standard for Software Asset Management (SAM) in order to control costs and optimize software investments. In this sense, this paper describes a SECO Governance approach for enabling an IT Architecture based on SAM.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116838304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital ecosystems and SEED co-innovation in education","authors":"A. Karduck","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611325","url":null,"abstract":"SEED (Social, Economic and Environmental Development) is fundamentally based on education, resource allocation, local-led innovation, and collaboration in all three SEED-areas. Radical change for SEED is possible and required, as Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker outlines in Factor 5 [1]. He provides examples for transforming the global economy on an economic path that is environmentally sustainable by increasing the resource productivity by factor 5 in various sectors in the industrialized regions, while being economically more profitable and balancing quality of life priorities. For developing regions, their development path could consequently take place in a much less resource inefficient way than for industrialized regions in the past. This paper focuses on education as a precious resource for SEED. Education is positioned within the context of the Cyber-Physical Environment of our evolving Digital Ecosystem (DE). A local-led innovation project, named “Sovereign Self-Unfolding Education” is referred to as a best practice process. It is put in context with the momentum in this area, and it's relation to the DE-paradigm. This paradigm is based on cooperation between actors and acknowledges competition (cooptition), in order to spur co-innovation in the people, public and private sectors (3Ps). The position paper argues for inclusion of these into the SEED-Framework of iFOSSF (International Free and Open Source Solutions Foundation).","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Closing the loop — From citizen sensing to citizen actuation","authors":"David N. Crowley, E. Curry, J. Breslin","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611338","url":null,"abstract":"Human-in-the-loop sensing or citizen sensing as a method for collecting, analysing, and mining information about events is becoming more mainstream. In this work, we aim to utilise the concept of citizen sensors but also introduce the theory of citizen actuation. Citizen sensors observe, report, and collect data - we propose by supporting these citizen sensors with methods to affect their surroundings we enable them to become citizen actuators. We outline a use case for citizen actuation in the Energy Management domain, propose an architecture (a Cyber-Physical Social System) built on previous work in Energy Management with Twitter integration, use of Complex Event Processing (CEP), and perform an experiment to test this theory. We motivate the need for citizen actuation in Building Management Systems due to the high cost of actuation systems. We define the concept of citizen actuation and outline an experiment that shows a reduction in average energy usage of 24%. The experiment supports the concept of citizen actuation to improve energy usage within the experimental environment and we discuss future research directions in this area.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115929706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giannis Verginadis, Dimitris Apostolou, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, F. Bénaben
{"title":"Addressing agility in collaborative processes: A comparative study","authors":"Giannis Verginadis, Dimitris Apostolou, Anne-Marie Barthe-Delanoë, F. Bénaben","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2013.6611340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2013.6611340","url":null,"abstract":"Efficiency of emerging digital ecosystems is strongly dependent on the efficiency of their collaborative processes. One crucial component of this efficiency is agility of collaborative processes. This article first provides a vision of agility of process in the world of workflow orchestration. Two approaches to deal with this issue (SAR from the European project PLAY and agility service from the French project SocEDA) are presented and illustrated (according to a scenario of nuclear crisis management). Comparison of both these approaches is structured according to different components of agility (detection, adaptation and reactivity). Some advantages and drawbacks of both these approaches are finally highlighted.","PeriodicalId":145109,"journal":{"name":"2013 7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132048435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}