{"title":"Defining architecture components of the Big Data Ecosystem","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867550","url":null,"abstract":"Big Data are becoming a new technology focus both in science and in industry and motivate technology shift to data centric architecture and operational models. There is a vital need to define the basic information/semantic models, architecture components and operational models that together comprise a so-called Big Data Ecosystem. This paper discusses a nature of Big Data that may originate from different scientific, industry and social activity domains and proposes improved Big Data definition that includes the following parts: Big Data properties (also called Big Data 5V: Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), data models and structures, data analytics, infrastructure and security. The paper discusses paradigm change from traditional host or service based to data centric architecture and operational models in Big Data. The Big Data Architecture Framework (BDAF) is proposed to address all aspects of the Big Data Ecosystem and includes the following components: Big Data Infrastructure, Big Data Analytics, Data structures and models, Big Data Lifecycle Management, Big Data Security. The paper analyses requirements to and provides suggestions how the mentioned above components can address the main Big Data challenges. The presented work intends to provide a consolidated view of the Big Data phenomena and related challenges to modern technologies, and initiate wide discussion.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128134118","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":"Semantics-based social media for collaborative open innovation","authors":"Fabrizio Smith, F. Taglino","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867587","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the work performed in the framework of the BIVEE project aimed to provide a semantic support to a more effective management of Social Media Contents in innovation-related activities in an enterprise context. Social interactions are more and more established through electronic media, due to the advent of new technologies, Internet penetration, and diffusion of social networks. All these means are technological enablers of open approaches (e.g., Open Innovation and Crowd-sourcing) for creating knowledge and exploiting the so-called wisdom of the crowds. They can convey a significant amount of potentially relevant knowledge, but, very often, strongly unstructured, fragmented, and without an explicit semantic correlation. Based on these motivations, a set of methodological solutions, for a smarter acquisition, organization, retrieval, and correlation of Social Media Contents, and their implementation as services, is proposed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132758150","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":"Enhanced mobile security using SIM encryption","authors":"N. Nassar, Richard Newhook, G. Miller","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867563","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile security is a main topic of concern for the enterprise. Corporate data stored in employees device post a potential security risk of getting lost, stolen or get accessed by unauthorized personal. There are many solutions in the market that addresses this issue. Most of these solutions revolve around applying stronger password, others make use of the encryption of either full or partial hard drive. Data encryption for mobile devices is a known art. However, the existing mobile data encryption solutions share the same methodology with slight implementation variation. The common techniques used to secure mobile data and or mobile code is wither on the application layer using software encryption or on the hardware layer. Our proposed solution introduces a new approach for securing data in mobile devices with encryption technique that is integrated with the mobile SIM card and robust enough to accommodate the common use case of mobile upgrade and yet keep corporate data encrypted.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133875480","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 federated cloud of things for emergency management","authors":"Gilberto Taccari, L. Spalazzi","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867643","url":null,"abstract":"The research presented herein aims at managing emergencies by means of a Federated Cloud of Things wherein cloud resources such as computing, storage and network resources, physical objects like sensors and actuators, as well as virtual object resulting from the processing of user-generated data are connected together in order to provide a virtual seamless infrastructure to tackle emergency situations.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124745433","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}
Delfina Malandrino, I. Manno, Giuseppina Palmieri, V. Scarano, G. Filatrella
{"title":"How quiz-based tools can improve students' engagement and participation in the classroom","authors":"Delfina Malandrino, I. Manno, Giuseppina Palmieri, V. Scarano, G. Filatrella","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867592","url":null,"abstract":"Student Response Systems exhibit a long usage history, begun with clickers and recently evolved toward Web-based systems. Several studies show that they improve students' engagement and participation, but also show some drawbacks (clickers costs, distraction and equity in Web-based systems). In this paper, we present our implementation of a Student Response System integrated within a collaborative application. Our approach does not require an Internet connection, has no cost, is flexible, and includes the possibility of arranging a Student Response Systems with a wide set of collaborative tools. We also present an evaluation study involving teachers and students from a high school. Results show improvements in students' participation and engagement. Finally we found some differences between the teachers and students groups with regard to user experience, usefulness, and long-term behaviors.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130097857","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":"Feel free to cache: Towards an open CDN architecture for cloud-based content distribution","authors":"Zhi-Li Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867612","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we propose an open CDN architecture, with the goal to foster an open and competitive content distribution ecosystem. The proposed architecture is built on the sights obtained from our recent work on understanding large scale content distribution systems. The key idea is to enable content creators or providers to allow any ISP or third-party content distributor to participate collaboratively in content distribution through software-defined content distribution framework with open APIs.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129448530","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":"Socializing co-robots: Incorporating users and situated interaction in the design of collaborative robots","authors":"S. Šabanović","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867551","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to address emerging concerns related to co-robotic technologies by exploring conceptual and practical approaches for explicitly including “the social” as the basis for developing and evaluating robots. In this talk, four recent projects performed within the scope of the R-House human-robot interaction lab ((http://rhouse.soic.indiana.edu)) is described. Three of the studies took place outside the laboratory - in users' homes, a local nursing institution, and an office - and involve culturally and socially situated studies of user perceptions of and interactions with robots to inform robot development. The fourth example describes the development of socially aware robotic agents using long time series of low resolution data (e.g. mechanical vibration, temperature, lighting, collisions) and bio-inspired computational methods to identify human presence and activities.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124597612","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":"It-enabled collaborative case management — Principles and tools","authors":"Sebastian Huber, Matthias Lederer, F. Bodendorf","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867573","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is a new paradigm to support dynamic business processes that are mainly unpredictable and knowledge-intensive. However, fundamental knowledge about this approach is currently scattered across a series of collective volumes and web blogs that tend to focus on isolated aspects or domain-specific challenges and solution approaches. As the ongoing discussion still lacks comprehensive theoretical literature, principles are driven mostly by individual circumstances and common ideas are not transparent. Therefore, the paper at hand provides a structured, domain-independent overview about the common principles in ACM and derives a set of distinct challenges in order to contribute to the general understanding of this paradigm. This work consolidates existing literature and subsequently focuses on the implied role of collaboration. To complement the theoretical discussion, a reference implementation demonstrates the key concepts.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124953256","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}
Jeremy R. Millar, D. Hodson, G. Lamont, Gilbert L. Peterson
{"title":"Multi-objective optimization of dead-reckoning error thresholds for virtual environments","authors":"Jeremy R. Millar, D. Hodson, G. Lamont, Gilbert L. Peterson","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867626","url":null,"abstract":"Design trade-offs between state consistency and system response time are commonplace in virtual environments. Systems typically rely on predictive consistency algorithms such as dead-reckoning to control consistency and response time. Dead-reckoning error threshold selection determines the consistency/response time trade-off. We extend this trade-off space to explicitly account for the concept of system fairness. We derive a multi-objective optimization problem and apply multi-objective evolutionary algorithms to solve for Pareto optimal error thresholds.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128726681","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":"Thinking from the system architecture: A better methodology for capture of collaborative knowledge","authors":"T. McDermott, J. Zentner, Nick R. Bollweg","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867608","url":null,"abstract":"The challenge of knowledge management, particularly in non-hierarchical or virtual tasking, is familiar to all of us. The pace of change increases the need for effective knowledge management; the trend towards distributed leadership within and external to organizations makes it more difficult. The authors with Dr. Robert Neches (previously with University of Southern California and the Department of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) envisioned development of a “Nationwide Ecosystem for Complex Engineering.” The “Ecosystem” intended to create a computing environment for virtual collaborative teams to respond to national challenges with engineering solutions in a common knowledge management environment. In development of this concept at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) we realized that a different approach to knowledge management is a core requirement for virtual teams to bring new innovation to challenge problems in complex systems. This approach is not necessarily new, as Dr. Neches has long been a proponent of model-based approaches to knowledge capture (Neches, et al., 1993). However, other work at GTRI combined with these ideas led us to the concept of using formal representations of system architecture as an organizing concept for knowledge. This is significant because ongoing development of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) concepts and the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) now provide formalism for general design modeling. We have demonstrated such approaches for large scale engineering design projects. This presentation introduces the concept of a generalized approach to knowledge management centered on models of system architecture.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121099144","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}