{"title":"Dependency based collaboration: Ontology based information management","authors":"B. Drabble","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928739","url":null,"abstract":"Central to any collaboration problem is the ability to model and understand how the effects of decisions made in one system propagate through the collective understanding, bringing to light insights and information. This raises the important research question of how information in different systems can be brought together in an understandable way but without the need to re-engineer either their interfaces or their data needs. The approach to “loose systems” coupling explored in this paper organizes information so that the dependency between information (people/groups, locations, resources and concepts) provided by disparate sources) can be identified, the consequences of the impacts on these dependencies analyzed and any consequences made explicit. This allows users to understand the explicit and implicit constraints, restraints and preferences that are imposed on their tasks ensuring any solutions they provide are compatible with ones being developed by other users. Understanding the “space of potential solutions” allows users to truly develop collaborate solutions in parallel without the need to employ a “stove piped” process in which users take turns in adding information to a solution in order to ensure consistency. Modeling the constraints, restraints and preferences of potential solutions also allows for more intelligent monitoring of information needs and hence more focusing information search. An example is provided showing how different planners and analysis tools can work collaboratively ensuring plans remains consistent.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"99 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":"125938147","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":"Ultra Low Power Small Size RF Transceiver Design for Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"A. A. Minhas, M. Faheem, Muhammad Basit Azeem","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928700","url":null,"abstract":"Some transceivers operate in the industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band. Usually Wireless sensor nodes are mostly battery operated and in many applications they are placed unattended. It requires designing both hardware and software that consume very low power during the operations. Current size of the wireless sensor node is in the order of millimeter. Scientists and engineers are trying to reduce its size near to the size of dust particle. This offers a challenge to design wireless sensor nodes that consume low power. Transceiver has a very important role in these nodes. In this paper we have proposed an Ultra low power small size RF transceiver. The proposed chip has contained five blocks which are power amplifier (PA), low noise amplifier (LNA), crystal oscillator (XO), Phase Locked Loop (PLL), and intermediate frequency(IF). It incorporates less number of low-dropout regulators (LDO). It has also proposed to decrease the number of beneficiary components by giving the same job to other components in a distributed way. Also the reduction of enable pins on the chip reduced the size of chip.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"59 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":"117316974","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":"Microblogging's impact on collaboration awareness: A field study of microblogging within and between project teams","authors":"Dejin Zhao, M. Rosson, Tara Matthews, T. Moran","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928662","url":null,"abstract":"Despite popular use of IM, Email, and other social software (e.g., blogs and wikis) in collaborative work, the maintenance of project status awareness among team members remains a critical research problem. The lack of timely project status sharing in teams can critically limit task coordination efficiency, expertise sharing opportunities, and development of other social components in teamwork (e.g., common ground building, and feeling of connectedness). In this context, we report a field study indicating that Microblogging as a light-weight informal communication media helped foster exchanging of “non-critical” updates (e.g., small milestones towards completing a task; problems/issues one's working on, but not too critical for reporting; undeveloped ideas/thoughts just came out of a conversation) among co-workers as social interaction. We also report how such microblog-mediated informal sharing benefited work collaboration in various ways within and across project teams.","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":"128188257","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":"Trust networks: Interpersonal, sensor, and social","authors":"K. Thirunarayan, Pramod Anantharam","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928659","url":null,"abstract":"Trust relationships occur naturally in many diverse contexts such as ecommerce, interpersonal interactions, social networks, sensor web, etc. As agents providing content and services become increasingly removed from the agents that consume them, the issue of robust trust inference and update become critical. Unfortunately, there is neither a universal notion of trust that is applicable to all domains nor a clear explication of its semantics or computation in many situations. In this beginner's level tutorial, we motivate the trust problem, explain the relevant concepts, summarize research in modeling trust and gleaning trustworthiness, and discuss challenges confronting us in this process.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"133 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":"127597141","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":"Scalable and efficient negotiation protocol: Decomposing the contract space based on idea of issue-grouping","authors":"K. Fujita, Takayuki Ito, M. Klein","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928711","url":null,"abstract":"Most real-world negotiation involves multiple interdependent issues, which makes an agent's utility functions nonlinear. Traditional negotiation mechanisms, which were designed for linear utilities, do not fare well in nonlinear contexts. One of the main challenges in developing effective nonlinear negotiation protocols is scalability; they can't find a high-quality solution when there are many issues, due to computational intractability. One reasonable approach to reducing computational cost, while maintaining good quality outcomes, is to decompose the utility space into several largely independent sub-spaces. In this paper, we propose a method for decomposing a utility space based on every agent's utility space. In addition, the mediator finds the contracts in each group based on the votes from all agents, and combines the contract in each issue-group. This method allows good outcomes with greater scalability than the method without issue-grouping. We demonstrate that our protocol, based on issue-groups, has a higher optimality rate than previous efforts, and discuss the impact on the optimality of the negotiation outcomes.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"23 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":"127679356","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":"MikiWiki: A meta-design framework for collaboration","authors":"Li Zhu, I. Vaghi","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928672","url":null,"abstract":"The Hive-Mind Space (HMS) model has been proposed to support distributed multidisciplinary design teams' collaboration and to tackle co-evolution of systems and users. The evolving design problems that cannot be predicted at design time require systems that have enough flexibility and tailorability to cope with emergent unexpected requirements. This paper presents MikiWiki, a prototype and meta-design framework developed to test the feasibility of the HMS model and to evaluate it. Habitable environments and boundary objects notions, being core elements of the HMS, are explicitly supported by MikiWiki on top of a programmable wiki modelled around meta-design principles. MikiWiki provides a common collaboration context and provides opportunities for design communities to build domain-oriented environments. Tailorable environments and pages provide users with the opportunity to autonomously evolve their tools and practices, while being aware of activities of others.","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":"114205381","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":"Building voting tools to support group collaboration","authors":"Kung-E. Cheng, F. Deek","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928671","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers in Group Support Systems (GSS) and facilitators of group meetings recognize that implementing convergence processes in group is a challenging task. Voting, when used properly, can be a great aid in the convergence process. To reap the full benefit of voting in GSS, the processing and communication capability in GSS must be used when building voting tools. In this paper, we describe the functional requirements of sophisticated voting tools for group collaboration by reviewing theories and existing voting tools. These considerations can serve as guidelines for design and development of next generation voting tools.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"72 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":"125379990","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":"Developing a common analytical framework for models, simulations, and data","authors":"N. Adam","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928660","url":null,"abstract":"DHS has recently established the Analytic Capability Development Working Group (ACDWG) whose aim is to reduce the lifecycle and capital investment costs of analytic efforts while continually enhancing the ability to inform decision-makers within mandated timeframes. Specifically, the working group is helping to develop a common analytic frameworks in order to address the challenges that users and developers of analytic tools face, including increasing awareness around existing analytical capabilities, spurring collaborations that reduce stove-piping and duplication of analytic effort, creating consistent, transparent, defensible, and shared knowledge, and streamlining development efforts at all levels. In this talk we discuss some of the challenges of developing a common analytic framework including models, simulations, and data.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"8 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":"125390902","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":"Behind Linus's law: A preliminary analysis of open source software peer review practices in Mozilla and Python","authors":"Jing Wang, John Millar Carroll","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928673","url":null,"abstract":"Open source is an important model of collaborative knowledge work and virtual organizations. One of its work practices, peer review, is considered critical to its success, as Linus's law highlights. Thus, understanding open source peer review, particular effective review practices, will improve the understanding of how to support collaborative work in new ways. Therefore, we conduct case studies in two open source communities that are well recognized as effective and successful, Mozilla and Python. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of our analysis on data from the bug tracking systems of those two organizations. We identify four common activities critical to open source software peer review, submission, identification, resolution and evaluation. Differences between communities indicate factors, such as reporter expertise, product type and structure, and organization size, affect review activities. We also discuss features of open source software peer review distinct from traditional review, as well as reconsiderations of Linus's law.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"55 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":"125084539","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":"Map-like Wikipedia overview visualization","authors":"P. Pang, R. Biuk-Aghai","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2011.5928665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2011.5928665","url":null,"abstract":"Wikis, such as Wikipedia, have become increasingly popular in recent years. They allow anyone to easily contribute to collaboratively written content. To better organize content, users in Wikipedia assign categories to articles, or create new categories if needed. The resulting semantic coverage of a wiki's articles over its categories is worth studying but not easy to obtain. To provide a better understanding, we created an approach to visualize an entire wiki by creating a graphical representation that is similar to a geographical map. This enables even untrained users, as well as people outside the field of computer science, to obtain an easily understandable overview of a wiki.","PeriodicalId":426543,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"23 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":"117077472","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}