{"title":"Multi-service card for students using JavaCard Global Platform and IAS Specifications The access control use case","authors":"M. Pasquet, N. Faye, Global Platform","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567227","url":null,"abstract":"The Greyc Laboratory has designed an innovative, interoperable and evolutionary e-student smartcard environment fully compliant with the Java Card Global Platform and IAS/ECC (European Citizen Card) specification, including a smartcard management system, multiple application provider host, multiple acceptance devices and different form factor token. The IAS ECC standard allows interoperability of the e-services cards in Europe. We present in this paper the card, the IT infrastructure and the access control use case. A complete prototype has been developed and we are expecting a deployment in 2013.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124312319","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":"Voronoi-based placement of road-side units to improve dynamic resource management in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks","authors":"Prithviraj Patil, A. Gokhale","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567260","url":null,"abstract":"Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) illustrate mobile P2P networks, which hold significant promise in improving traffic safety and alleviating traffic congestion. Reliable VANETbased services require dynamic resource management due to limited and often fluctuating network connectivity of VANETs that stem from the wireless and mobile nature of vehicleto-vehicle (V2V) communications. To address these needs, a collaboration with Road-Side Units (RSU) have been proposed to complement V2V communication by providing event and data brokering capability in the form of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications. Deploying RSUs involves upfront investment and maintenance costs, and hence solutions are needed that maximize the benefit of RSUs by placing them effectively in accordance to existing and projected traffic density, and the types of services planned for VANETs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel Voronoi diagram-based algorithm for the effective placement of RSUs using packet delay and loss as a criteria. This approach has two-fold advantages: a significant reduction in the number of RSUs required to cover a geographic region, and increase in the logical coverage area of each RSU irrespective of the dynamic vehicular traffic conditions thereby improving reliability of communications. This algorithm has been evaluated in the context of a road network and traffic conditions for an urban area. When compared with other baseline placement algorithms, communication reliability stemming from our Voronoi diagram-based placement algorithm results in less packet delay and lesser packet loss both of which are important to realize the different VANET-based services.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116598622","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}
Mohamed Sediri, N. Matta, Jason Dai, S. Loriette, Alain Hugerot
{"title":"Experience feedback guides for crisis management using GIS","authors":"Mohamed Sediri, N. Matta, Jason Dai, S. Loriette, Alain Hugerot","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567244","url":null,"abstract":"Crisis management is a special type of collaborative approach in which the actors are subject to an uninterrupted stress. It is a quite significant issue because the consequences of crises can bring huge damages (human and economic loses). In order to learn from expertise and reduce consequences, we study how to represent emergency management situations based on experience feedback. Several dimensions are considered in this study, from one side: organization, communication and problem solving activities and from the other side the presentation of experience using GIS. We present in this paper our first results. This work is done with the collaboration of the Aube' Emergency Department.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124679159","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":"On human models for collaborative robots","authors":"R. Alami","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567228","url":null,"abstract":"Human-robot collaboration requires to equip the robot with explicit reasoning on the human and on its own capacities to achieve its tasks in a collaborative way with a human partner. We present a robot control system which has been especially designed for a cognitive robot which shares space and task with a human. We have adopted a constructive approach based on effective individual and collaborative skills. The system is comprehensive since it aims at dealing with a complete set of abilities articulated so that the robot controller is effectively able to conduct a collaborative task with a human partner in a flexible manner. These abilities include geometric reasoning and situation assessment based essentially on perspective-taking and affordances, management and exploitation by the robot of each agent beliefs (human and robot) in a separate cognitive model, human-aware task planning and human and robot interleaved plan achievement.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126443270","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":"Methods of effective information exchange in the virtual world","authors":"D. Brendel, Robert L. Williams","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567286","url":null,"abstract":"A 3D virtual world can be used to facilitate the exchange of information within an organization. Regardless of the type of information, users may collaborate amongst their peers, deliver company organizational updates to a large group of people, and document research. Researchers at the Air Force Research Labs Discovery Lab, a year round research and STEM internship program, have set precedence for using the virtual world for these applications. The Discovery Lab focuses research on engineering problems that are relevant to the United States Air Force, and has two major components: the physical Discovery Lab, and the Virtual Discovery Center. The Virtual Discovery Center uses the open source 3D application server, called OpenSimulator, and has acted as a capstone for the organization. The Virtual Discovery Center is home for much of the Discovery Lab's collaboration, innovation, and research documentation. Researchers may meet and discuss via voice and text, and may share graphics to report project accomplishments. Since at times the Discovery Lab hosts more than one hundred researchers and collaborators, the virtual world serves as a medium for delivering important programmatic updates, as well as holding virtual group meetings. The Virtual Discovery Center is additionally used for research, professional training, and data visualization by utilizing the virtual worlds unique 3D object building and scripting techniques. The methods used by the Discovery Lab are proposed as an effective system for provoking collaboration and the exchange of information.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114848186","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. Stoica, Theodoros Theodoridis, Huosheng Hu, K. Mcdonald-Maier, David F. Barrero
{"title":"Towards human-friendly efficient control of multi-robot teams","authors":"A. Stoica, Theodoros Theodoridis, Huosheng Hu, K. Mcdonald-Maier, David F. Barrero","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567233","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores means to increase efficiency in performing tasks with multi-robot teams, in the context of natural Human-Multi-Robot Interfaces (HMRI) for command and control. The motivating scenario is an emergency evacuation by a transport convoy of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) that have to traverse, in shortest time, an unknown terrain. In the experiments the operator commands, in minimal time, a group of rovers through a maze. The efficiency of performing such tasks depends on both, the levels of robots' autonomy, and the ability of the operator to command and control the team. The paper extends the classic framework of levels of autonomy (LOA), to levels/hierarchy of autonomy characteristic of Groups (G-LOA), and uses it to determine new strategies for control. An UGVoriented command language (UGVL) is defined, and a mapping is performed from the human-friendly gesture-based HMRI into the UGVL. The UGVL is used to control a team of 3 robots, exploring the efficiency of different G-LOA; specifically, by (a) controlling each robot individually through the maze, (b) controlling a leader and cloning its controls to followers, and (c) controlling the entire group. Not surprisingly, commands at increased G-LOA lead to a faster traverse, yet a number of aspects are worth discussing in this context.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128120700","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":"Big data, little decisions: Tightening the loop between data crunching and human expertise","authors":"Zack Bennett, Marc G. L'Heureux","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567205","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation is a case study examining how LexisNexis uses scaled active learning on the HPCC Systems environment to focus manual topical annotations on critical documents pulled from a large corpus. The active learning system uses natural language processing and machine learning techniques to identify and present “next best” training set candidates to legal editors, combining massive parallel processing with expert human analysis to improve classifier accuracy while minimizing human effort.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131720915","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":"Collaborative ontology building in virtual innovation factories","authors":"Valeria Ludovici, Fabrizio Smith, F. Taglino","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567267","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge-intensive nature of business innovation paradigms requires advanced method for managing the informative resources in the scope of an enterprise, especially in a virtual enterprise. In this context, a challenging task is to support the participation of workers to elicit/codify their tacit domain knowledge, providing the means to convert it into a more explicit and processable one. To this end in this paper we present a collaborative ontology building methodology, which allows a community of practice, including knowledge engineers, domain experts, and ontology stakeholders to cooperate for: (i) producing conceptual models and reaching a consensus on their suitability with respect to the application domain at hand; (ii) guaranteeing at the same time a sound formal encoding into a computational ontology. The presented approach adopts standard languages, such as SKOS and OWL, and it is supported by a software platform built upon a semantic wiki. First experiences conducted within the BIVEE project are also reported.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123204884","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}
Cosmin Dumitru, Zhiming Zhao, P. Grosso, C. D. Laat
{"title":"HybridFlow: Towards intelligent video delivery and processing over hybrid infrastructures","authors":"Cosmin Dumitru, Zhiming Zhao, P. Grosso, C. D. Laat","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567271","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the architecture and the prototype implementation of HybridFlow, a system for processing and delivering very high definition video. It is designed to handle the challenges that arise in hybrid distributed infrastructures. It does so by implementing a number of software components that select and manage storage, computation and network resources in order to meet the Quality of Service levels desired by the user. One advantage our our system that has facilitated its adoption by CineGrid, an interdisciplinary community focused on the digital cinema domain, is that it shields the end user from the details of the IT infrastructure and allows users from different member organizations to use any resource available in the community. The dynamic nature of the infrastructure makes it susceptible to bottlenecks and our prototype focuses on determining I/O hotspots. At the core of the system lie resource descriptions based on semantic web ontologies that provide information about the existing resources. By using them, the resource selection process is optimized and in line with the application's estimated demands. In this work we focus on the I/O performance as a bottleneck type. We show how HybridFlow can be used in the typical scenario of a video processing pipeline to identify bottlenecks and work towards achieving the desired QoS levels while keeping resource utilization optimal.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124653899","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":"Xlet-based applications for seismic early warning and Emergency Services in the IDTV environment","authors":"Mustafa Asim Kazancigil","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2013.6567241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2013.6567241","url":null,"abstract":"Xlets are Java applets that are developed for interactive digital television broadcasting. In this paper, I will explain the methods that I used for the creation of Xlet-based applications which utilize online data processing in the IDTV broadcasting environment. The themes that I chose for these Xlets are the Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning application, the Recent Seismic Activity Report application, and the Emergency Services application. The online data regarding the Recent Seismic Activity Report application are provided by the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI) of Bogazici University in Istanbul; while the online data for the Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning application and the Emergency Services application are provided by the Godoro website which I used for storing (and retrieving by the Xlets) the earthquake and tsunami early warning simulation data, and the DVB network subscriber data for utilizing the emergency services (Police, Ambulance and Fire Department). The main research question of this paper is how to use digital television as a medium to convey timely and pervasive information regarding seismic warning data to disaster-stricken communities.","PeriodicalId":256633,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126157067","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}