R. Devarakonda, G. Palanisamy, Line C. Pouchard, B. Shrestha
{"title":"Semantic search integration to climate data","authors":"R. Devarakonda, G. Palanisamy, Line C. Pouchard, B. Shrestha","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867639","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present how research projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are using Semantic Search capabilities to help scientists perform their research. We will discuss how the Mercury metadata search system, with the help of the semantic search capability, is being used to find, retrieve, and link climate change data.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"65 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":"122734443","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":"An effective approach using Eco-feedback to motivate energy conservation behaviors","authors":"H. H. Chi","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867632","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there are increasingly practitioners and researchers conducting human-computer interaction (HCI) projects that focused on sustainability. In particular, the art of visualization in HCI has been radically utilized to represent statistical numbers or figures of energy consumption, e.g. electricity, to create energy awareness and thus foster positive attitudes towards sustainable practices. However, it seems to be a major issue when users with different concerns and motivations to conserve energy provide a variety of feedback for generic information in research prototypes. To address this issue, several researches and critical surveys have been aiming to explore which factors influence most to users' energy conservation reactions. Based on those surveys, this paper attempts to provide a conclusion of most effective factors and then take advantage of those factors to design a prototype combining Eco-feedback and social media to motivate energy conservation behaviors.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"75 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":"132284410","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":"Ganging up on big data computer-intermediated collaborative analysis","authors":"M. Stefik, Hoda Eldardiry","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867609","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding complex situations is difficult. Intelligence analysis has long been the work of teams including subject matter specialists. Today collaborative analysis takes place in the context of “big data”, where information comes from a variety of human, communications, and sensor sources. Understanding the big picture is both about how analysts interact and combine their insights together and with how they engage with data at scale. In this paper we consider opportunities for next generation analysis systems for teams, focusing on the computer-intermediated functions that support and coordinate analytic activities around big data.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"38 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":"123555676","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}
J. Cassaniti, N. Jayarajan, Rebecca Shore, Simone Parrish, L. Mwaikambo
{"title":"From microscope to computer: Using facebook to assist medical laboratory scientists in Nigeria access and navigate eLearning courses","authors":"J. Cassaniti, N. Jayarajan, Rebecca Shore, Simone Parrish, L. Mwaikambo","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867638","url":null,"abstract":"A Facebook Group was established to sensitize medical laboratory scientists in Nigeria to eLearning courses accredited for continuing professional development. In 11 months, over 6,000 members joined the Group to learn how to access and navigate the courses. Research will focus on analyzing the social networks within the Group to identify key influencers and more efficiently spread accurate information.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"27 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":"129427116","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":"The networked gatekeeping process for news in the 21st century","authors":"Thomas Ernste","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867536","url":null,"abstract":"“Gatekeeping theory” is the conceptual framework that was developed during the 20th century within the journalism and mass communication research discipline to help us understand the complex, multivariate factors that collectively influence the content of the media. But gatekeeping theory in its extant form is limited in its descriptive value for today's media environment because it was developed primarily to describe the media system of the 20th century. In this paper, a combined consideration of our existing knowledge of gatekeeping theory and the principles of social network analysis offers a foundation for a conceptual shift towards the development of a networked gatekeeping theory for news for the media of the public sphere in the 21st century. Further, these conceptual considerations offer insights for approaching the empirical investigation of the gatekeeping process using social network analysis and other relevant methods facilitated by software packages such as NodeXL. I also identify in this paper some current gaps in social network analysis metrics for the study of important social network sites like Twitter. The gaps in knowledge currently limit our capacity to empirically understand the unique roles of journalists as trusted general interest intermediaries in the networked gatekeeping process.","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":"129553336","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":"sCooL: A system for academic institution name normalization","authors":"Ferosh Jacob, F. Javed, Meng Zhao, M. McNair","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867547","url":null,"abstract":"Named Entity Normalization involves normalizing recognized entities to a concrete, unambiguous real world entity. Within the purview of the online job posting domain, academic institution name normalization provides a beneficial opportunity for CareerBuilder (CB). Accurate and detailed normalization of academic institutions are important to perform sophisticated labor market dynamics analysis. In this paper we present and discuss the design and the implementation of sCooL, an academic institution name normalization system designed to supplant the existing manually maintained mapping system at CB. We also discuss the specific challenges that led to the design of sCooL. sCooL leverages Wikipedia to create academic institution name mappings from a school database which is created from job applicant resumes posted on our website. The mappings created are utilized to build a database which is then used for normalization. sCooL provides the flexibility to integrate mappings collected from different curated and non-curated sources. The system is able to identify malformed data and K-12 schools from universities and colleges. We conduct an extensive comparative evaluation of the semi-automated sCooL system against the existing manual mapping implementation and show that sCooL provides better coverage with improved accuracy.","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":"126216185","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":"Production, takt and lead time variation: Production planning and tardiness probabilities in small-lot production","authors":"S. Kristoffersen","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867570","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the production planning and control processes of two companies, which interact closely in the maritime supply chain. Our claim is that current theoretical models of the near-static tardiness that may be observed are insufficient. We offer an alternative, probability-based approach. This approach and some associated concepts, such as dedicated manufacturing, the accordion effect, the fixed tardiness anomaly and unlucky units may be used by small-lot, high-competencies and value-adding, innovative manufacturers, to revise the manufacturing planning and control approaches.","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":"126220939","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":"Supply chain configuration in low volume, high customized production environment: Can pre-project planning stabilize your supply chain?","authors":"Gabriele Hofinger Junge, S. Kristoffersen","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867645","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the concept of supply chain configuration in low volume, high customized production environment and examines its contribution towards stabilizing the supply chain when implementing value improving practices.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"23 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":"133195252","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":"Spatial-temporal characterization of an urban environment using Twitter","authors":"Victor R. Martinez, Víctor M. González","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867545","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of the usage of Twitter within the context of urban activity. We retrieved a set of tweets submitted by users located in Mexico City. Tweets were labeled as either positive or negative mood using a sentiment analyzer implementation. By calculating the average mood, we were able to run a Mann-Withney's U test to evaluate differences in the calculated mood per day of week. We found that all days of the week had significantly different medians with Sunday being the most positive day and Thursday the most negative. Additionally, we study the location for the tweets as an indicator important events and landmarks around the city.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"47 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":"133091814","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":"Integration of emerging learning technologies in secondary school: A Burkina Faso case study","authors":"Romaric R. Zongo","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2014.6867641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2014.6867641","url":null,"abstract":"Education has become one of the biggest challenges within the African nation of Burkina Faso where teachers are often confronted with material shortages, lack of content, lack of equipment, and lack of opportunity for self-conducted learning (United Nations, 2013). In order to face these challenges educators are turning to Emerging Learning Technologies (ELTs) to help improve the quality of teaching and learning as well as the access to these learning opportunities (UNESCO, 2011). The term “ELTs” refers to mobile and smart phones that can run educational software. According to Education for All (2011), Secondary school attendance and completion are influenced by poverty, location and gender. Thus, technology integration in education, particularly using ELTs at the secondary school level can help compensate the lack of infrastructure, teachers' shortage and schools supplies such as books. ELTs according to Ally (2009), have the potential to “reach people who live in remote locations where there are no school, teachers, or libraries.","PeriodicalId":409799,"journal":{"name":"2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"61 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":"134424060","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}