{"title":"Educational system for diabetic children","authors":"Sofia Tretyakova","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928754","url":null,"abstract":"This work focuses on diabetes mellitus in childhood because it is one of the most widespread chronic diseases among children around the world. Child diabetes is not only a problem for young patients but for their parents and relatives too [1], [2]. Diabetic children have to follow special rules, such as measuring blood sugar, taking insulin injections or following a special diet. Young diabetes patients are often unaware of the specific details of rules that need to be followed in order to allow them to live a normal life [3]. Generally, the underlying problem is getting these children interested in learning about this topic.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124529177","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}
Z. Balogh, E. Gatial, L. Hluchý, V. Hudek, M. Konečný
{"title":"Integration of secure agents with a secure communication infrastructure for crisis management","authors":"Z. Balogh, E. Gatial, L. Hluchý, V. Hudek, M. Konečný","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928712","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes integration of secure agents with a secure communication infrastructure in order to provide rapid information gathering platform from various information sources and actors participating in a crisis situation. The role of agents is primarily a coordinated collection of information. The secure communication infrastructure (SCI) provides communication services for voice and data exchange between users and systems. A special type of agent called User Communication Agent is described. The communication with users is enacted through dynamically generated XForms-based questionnaires integrated with the user interface of the SCI. Although security and trust aspects are important part of both secure agents and SCI, we concentrate more on integration aspects between these two systems. The presented work is being developed in scope of the SECRICOM 7th FP integrated project.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116398231","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 view of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning research today","authors":"G. Stahl","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928705","url":null,"abstract":"The field of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) explores the design and use of collaboration technologies to support learning systems, such as school classrooms or small groups of people building knowledge together [4]. I hope that CSCL environments can be designed that make possible and encourage groups to think and learn collaboratively [1]. In my research, my colleagues and I look at logs of student groups chatting and drawing about mathematics in order to see how they build on each other's ideas to achieve more than they would individually [2].","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121322035","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. Introne, Robert J. Laubacher, G. Olson, T. Malone
{"title":"The Climate CoLab: Large scale model-based collaborative planning","authors":"J. Introne, Robert J. Laubacher, G. Olson, T. Malone","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928663","url":null,"abstract":"The Climate CoLab is a system to help thousands of people around the world collectively develop plans for what humans should do about global climate change. This paper shows how the system combines three design elements (model-based planning, on-line debates, and electronic voting) in a synergistic way. The paper also reports early usage experience showing that: (a) the system is attracting a continuing stream of new and returning visitors from all over the world, and (b) the nascent community can use the platform to generate interesting and high quality plans to address climate change. These initial results indicate significant progress towards an important goal in developing a collective intelligence system—the formation of a large and diverse community collectively engaged in solving a single problem.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122779282","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}
V. Groom, Vasant Srinivasan, Cindy L. Bethel, R. Murphy, Lorin Dole, C. Nass
{"title":"Responses to robot social roles and social role framing","authors":"V. Groom, Vasant Srinivasan, Cindy L. Bethel, R. Murphy, Lorin Dole, C. Nass","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928687","url":null,"abstract":"Promoting dependents' perceptions of point-of-injury care robots as social actors may elicit feelings of companionship and diminish stress. However, numerous rescuers may control these robots and communicate with dependents through the robot, creating communication and interaction challenges that may be best addressed by creating a pure medium robot expressing no social identity. In addition, setting dependents' expectations regarding the robot's social role may improve perceptions of the robot and trust in the robot's suggestions. In a 3 (role: pure medium vs. social medium vs. social actor) × 2 (framing: framed vs. unframed) between-participants design, participants interacted with a simulation of a robot in a search and rescue context (N=84). Robot social behavior decreased participants' fear, yet made participants feel more isolated. Framing generated increased trust in the robot. Implications for the theory and design of robots and human-robot interaction are discussed.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114430713","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":"Online code compression in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"I. Talzi, C. Tschudin","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928702","url":null,"abstract":"A problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), an extremely resource-limited system, is that re-tasking by replacing complete or partial code images is both disruptive and energy intensive. In this paper we report on a dynamic code compression scheme for mobile code that we implemented for a WSN. We use a fine-grained code mobility scheme based on capsules, ChameleonVM, where network functionality can be deployed on demand and for several tasks in parallel. Within a task's virtual network segment we let our ChameleonVM optimize the assignment of instruction bits: Mobile code instructions are re-coded on a regional basis and depending on the actual code sequences used, incrementally leading to smaller capsules. We demonstrate the operation of our online compression scheme with a time-sync protocol and discuss its performance.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126775388","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}
Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Rubal Wanchoo, Ravi Santosh Arvapally
{"title":"Empirical study of an intelligent argumentation system in MCDM","authors":"Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Rubal Wanchoo, Ravi Santosh Arvapally","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928674","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent argumentation based collaborative decision making system assists stakeholders in a decision making group to assess various alternatives under different criterion based on the argumentation. A performance score of each alternative under every criterion in Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is represented in a decision matrix and it denotes satisfaction of the criteria by that alternative. The process of determining the performance scores of alternatives in a decision matrix for criterion could be controversial sometimes because of the subjective nature of criterion. We developed a framework for acquiring performance scores in a decision matrix for multi-criteria decision making using an intelligent argumentation and collaborative decision support system we developed in the past [1]. To validate the framework empirically, we have conducted a study in a group of stakeholders by providing them an access to use the intelligent argumentation based collaborative decision making tool over the Web. The objectives of the study are: 1) to validate the intelligent argumentation system for deriving performance scores in multi-criteria decision making, and 2) to validate the overall effectiveness of the intelligent argumentation system in capturing rationale of stakeholders. The results of the empirical study are analyzed in depth and they show that the system is effective in terms of collaborative decision support and rationale capturing. In this paper, we present how the study was carried out and its empirical results.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127944323","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":"Real-time carpooling system","authors":"N. V. Pukhovskiy, R. E. Lepshokov","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928758","url":null,"abstract":"Transportation is a major issue in our world today. Traditional problems of transit, once thought of as a strictly civil engineering difficulty, are increasingly being revisited and recognized as a critical environmental crisis. Transportation accounts for about 29% of all greenhouse gas emissions [1]. There is also a growing awareness of the environmental impact associated with the fabrication of cars, especially from the nickel-metal hydride batteries in more fuel-efficient hybrids. The dominant form of personal transit today is the private passenger car. Very often, these cars are used with only a single rider. An over abundance of cars creates many well-documented problems for urban areas, such as increased traffic, increased pollution, parking congestion, and the need for expensive infrastructure maintenance. The expenses, both environmental and fiscal, of single occupancy vehicles can be reduced dramatically by utilizing the empty seats in these vehicles. Carpooling targets these empty seats: it takes cars off the road reducing traffic and pollution, and may provide an opportunity for social interaction.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130075625","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 a taxonomy of adaptive agent-based collaboration patterns for autonomic service ensembles","authors":"Giacomo Cabri, Mariachiara Puviani, F. Zambonelli","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928730","url":null,"abstract":"Services are increasingly becoming the building block of today's distributed systems. However, to support the development of robust complex applications made up of ensembles of cooperating service components and to promote autonomic features, adaptive collaboration patterns among components have to be enforced. In this paper, we introduce a taxonomy of adaptive agent-based collaboration patterns, for their analysis and exploitation in the area of autonomic service ensembles. The preliminary proposed taxonomy has two main advantages: (i) it enables the reuse of existing experience from the agents' world in the area of autonomic service systems, and (ii) it can provide useful suggestions to designer for the choice of the most suitable patterns.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130425419","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":"Learning and coordination: An overview","authors":"M. Abramson, R. Mittu","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928709","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptive learning techniques can automate the large-scale coordination of multi-agent systems and enhance their robustness in dynamic environments. This paper surveys several learning approaches that have been developed to address three different aspects of coordination, namely, learning coordination behavior, team learning, and the integrated learning of trust and reputation in order to facilitate coordination in open systems including collaborative systems where artificial agents and humans interact. Although convergence in multi-agent learning is still an open research question, several applications have emerged using some of the learning techniques presented.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133725371","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}