{"title":"Distributed Agents for Multi-Rover Autonomy","authors":"J. M. Torres, Q. Wijnands","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.17","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the results of an evolution activity of a multi agent system (MAS) used in a Mars Exploration mission demonstrator. The objective of the activity was to incorporate and evaluate different agent-related assets, including the commanding of the system using high level goals and service petitions rather than low level commands, the use of a common ontology to ease the communication among the agents and their reasoning, the distribution of functionality such as the on-board planning, and the design of the agents behaviors using production rules. Although the implementation and demonstrator are focused towards space applications, the focus of the paper will be on the assets/lessons learned in designing and prototyping the MAS. The system has been implemented in JADE following the FIPA Standards.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129770371","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 Modeling and Simulation: The Virtual Physiological Human Vision (Keynote)","authors":"M. Viceconti","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.82","url":null,"abstract":"The Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is an international research initiative, which aims to develop a framework of methods and technologies enabling an integrative investigation of the human physiology and pathology. The term integrative indicates the need to overcome the limitations of the reductionist approach, attempting to capture the emergences due to systemic interaction between space-time scales, organ systems, but also academic disciplines. In this brief presentation of the VPH initiative and of its early results we argument that the VPH is first and foremost an attempt to develop an effective environment for collaborative modeling and simulation.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125997975","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":"Analyzing and Establishing Data Model of SOA-based Distributed Application System","authors":"Ruihua Di, Ting Wang, Hu Wang","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.49","url":null,"abstract":"By referencing the subject data storage idea in the areas of data warehouse and service-oriented analysis method, we proposed a two-stage method to create SOA-based data model including: (i) building a subject domain E-R data entities model, and (ii) building service data model. We described the data model from the layered point of view, where three layers are physical data layer, data aggregation layer and cross-organization services aggregation layer. In the development of the Distance Open Education Information System, we used this method to analyze and establish the system data model.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117024170","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":"Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques using the WEKA Environment for Prostate Cancer Therapy Plan","authors":"N. Mallios, E. Papageorgiou, M. Samarinas","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.28","url":null,"abstract":"The improvement and exploitation of a number of prominent Data Mining techniques in numerous real-world application areas (e.g. Industry, Healthcare and Bioscience) has led to the utilization of such techniques in machine learning environments, in order to extract useful pieces of information of the specified data and support decision making. Throughout this study, a comprehensive techniques' comparison is performed upon a fairly large set of data consisting of real medical incidents of men with the diagnosis of prostate cancer which are receiving medical treatment. 40 patients, suffered previously with prostate cancer and without undergone radiation therapy, were examined for therapy change after already receiving medical treatment. Six parameters were measured for eight subsequent quartiles to assess the patient state and its treatment outcome. Specifically, with the aim of the open source WEKA environment, the given data is tested with a number of machine learning andclassification techniques in order to compare the performance of the chosen algorithms upon the practitioner's decision of a potential therapy change.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124610329","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":"A Semi-Analytical Approach for the Contact Dynamics of Ancient Columns Modeled as Rigid Blocks","authors":"M. Basili, A. Sinopoli","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.44","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of conservation and protection of architectural heritage against dynamic inputs such as the case of earthquakes has represented for years an important task in the field of structural engineering with the aim of describing and understanding the behaviour of monumental structures. This work deals with monumental structures made of large and heavy stone blocks, simply supported to each other, a typical technology used to build the Greek temples. The plane dynamics of a rigid rectangular block simply supported on a horizontally moving ground, with friction and unilateral constraints at ground contact, is modeled by means of a new semi-analytical approach for non-smooth contact dynamics recently developed by one of the authors [1]. The dynamics - formulated as a contact problem governed by Signorini's and Coulomb's laws - is converted into an equivalent problem of static balance by making use of specific projective techniques in the configurations space. The procedure is then applied to a numerical model, so that a code can be implemented where the dynamics of the block is fully modeled according to the various possible mechanisms considering both phases of smooth and non-smooth contact dynamics, moreover normal and tangential contact reactions during smooth dynamics, and corresponding impulses during non-smooth, are estimated at each step. Either extended or single point contacts are then possible with consequent sliding, rocking or sliding-rocking modes, so as the possibility of impacts and also of free dynamics when contact is lost. Analyses are conduced and then compared to corresponding cases previously treated in literature, in order to validate the proposed numerical method for the rocking mode. Moreover, dynamic evolution of the block is represented graphically in order to observe different configurations at each instant of time. The goal is to understand the dynamic behaviour of the block under several input intensities in order to prevent excessive sliding or overturning and to localize with sufficient precision the position of the block after the earthquake.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"26 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131491766","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":"Formal Description of a Generic Multi-Model","authors":"S. Fuchs, M. Kadolsky, R. Scherer","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.34","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-Models address issues of nD modeling problems in construction information processes. They provide a temporary and loose coupling by aggregating instances of possibly orthogonal domain models and expressing explicit relations between their elements. To provide a base for prototypical and specific multi-model support as well as the development of generic multi-model based tools, the authors propose a data schema for a generic multi-model, consisting of an ID-based link model and two elementary model representations. Specifications of optional meta-data provide structural and semantic description of the data.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117263210","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}
Lydia Kraus, M. Stanojevic, Nikola M. Tomasevic, V. Mijovic
{"title":"A Decision Support System for Building Evacuation Based on the EMILI SITE Environment","authors":"Lydia Kraus, M. Stanojevic, Nikola M. Tomasevic, V. Mijovic","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.59","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces a decision support system for determining a safe and short (in both time and distance sense) evacuation path and for increasing situation awareness in the case of a hazard in buildings of large critical infrastructures (CIs). CIs are infrastructures that are complex, difficult to monitor and with an integrated SCADA system, such as airports or metro stations. The FP-7 project Emergency Management In Large Infrastructures (EMILI) aims at a new generation of data management and control systems in CIs [1] by building a further data management layer on already existing systems. Part of the EMILI project is the implementation of a simulation and training environment (SITE). The introduced decision support system is meant to be integrated into SITE, using results from event processing and an optimization algorithm to determine evacuation paths and increase the awareness of the safety situation. The decision support system was developed for an airport use case.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125954996","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}
Zhangbing Zhou, Xiaoping Sun, Lei Shu, Chin-Feng Lai
{"title":"Cyber Physical Society with SOA, BPM and Sensor Networks Track Report - CPS 2011","authors":"Zhangbing Zhou, Xiaoping Sun, Lei Shu, Chin-Feng Lai","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.69","url":null,"abstract":"Along with the stronger capability of computing devices and the cheaper and faster communication networks, computing will be embedded in all types of physical resources, and applications with big societal impact and economic benefit will be created in time and across spaces.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"34 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114007213","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":"Efficient Distributed Approach for Density-Based Clustering","authors":"Jean-Francois Laloux, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Mohand Tahar Kechadi","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.27","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, large bodies of data in different domains are collected and stored. An efficient extraction of useful knowledge from these data becomes a huge challenge. This leads to the need for developing distributed data mining techniques. However, only a few research concerns distributed clustering for analysing large, heterogeneous and distributed datasets. Besides, current distributed clustering approaches are normally generating global models by aggregating local results that would lose important knowledge. In this paper, we present a new distributed data mining approach where local models are not directly merged to build the global ones. Preliminary results of this algorithm are also discussed","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"C-21 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132727936","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":"A Novel Semantic Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Web Services","authors":"F. Latreche, F. Belala","doi":"10.1109/WETICE.2011.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE.2011.52","url":null,"abstract":"Web Services are a kind of distributed systems built by using a set of loosely coupled components, these elementary components may be situated in dynamic environments characterized by intense use of wireless medium. In such environments requested services may failed at any time during the composition process. However, current research works on Web services focus merely on static composition and disregard dynamic one. To cope with this problem we exploit in this work real time rewriting logic to design and formal check dynamic Web services. Thanks to this formalization we do not only obtain a high level specification of dynamic Web services behavior, but we are able to formally reason on it thanks to Maude real time.","PeriodicalId":274311,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE 20th International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129848040","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}