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Common Ground Theory provides the means to determine those factors which affect the capability of one individual to work with another. This becomes important in design teams where individuals from different disciplines have to work together on complex ...

Ubiquitous computing is increasingly becoming part of our lives. Various computing devices, having different sizes and capabilities, and using different software platforms are part of our working, leisure and living scenario, where mobile devices coexist ...

A collective activity generates a large quantity of various information which constitutes the "context". The comprehension of this context by each actor is essential for the success of the activity. The handling of this context with dedicated interface ...

Locating experts or work partners in large communities can sometimes be hard. The most common way of accomplishing this task is through recommendations from known acquaintances. This networked search for others who fit required profiles is a form of ...

Exchanging facial video is an efficient way for collaborative awareness. However, collaboration systems are migrating from the traditional circuit-switched environments and local-area-networks (LANs) to Internet and wireless networks. Video-based ...

In this paper we present a novel rejoin scheme for collaborative graphics editing systems in ubiquitous environments. The term `rejoin' is used to donate a mechanism that allows a late-coming participant to join an ongoing collaborative session after he ...

Efficient Task arrangement is difficult in global collaboration especially for distributed software design. Since the software design is a kind of creative work and there are reworks almost all the time, the duration and even the task sequence is ...

By defining requirement management rules in the early project phase, the developed product can usually be assured to satisfy customer requirements and increase customer satisfaction. The capability maturity model integration (CMMI) requirement ...

Working in a group consists of setting up an environment that allows the different participants to work together. The collaboration has now become then a discipline that fascinates the distributed environments as well as the Human/Machine interactions. ...

Video Shot boundary detection is a fundamental task in any kind of video content analysis and retrieval. Meaningful segments, such as cut or gradual transition, will be found by performing a boundary detection task. This task has already become an ...

During the last decade, the Mixed Reality (MR) concept and supporting technologies emerges to present the real and virtual contents together onto a single display. This paper mainly focuses on three parts: the first part of this paper presents the ...

Complex artifacts and systems generally embody multidisciplinary knowledge, which make the computer supported collaboration among experts and designers a must. Multidisciplinary collaborative modeling and simulation (M&S) technology is an effective ...

In this paper, a detailed method is proposed to make the transformation of a product model to a commodity model. A collaborative commodity development theory based on the three properties of physical, energy and information is proposed. An integrated ...

The Finite Element (FE) modeling support system enables easy and fast FE modeling to be conducted for static and durability analysis in the design of automobile suspension modules. It takes into account the entire design process verifying the index of ...

In order to quicken the building of large business system, the design of the system and modules are always implemented in an evolving model, but there are many requirement changes in evolving software development, and the consistency of t requirement ...

Manufacturing grid (MG) is a cooperation platform and resource sharing system among manufacturing enterprises. Virtualization technology is introduced into the resource hierarchy of the Manufacturing Grid. The paper presents a service-oriented solution ...

The purpose of this research is to develop an evaluation system for performing the initial evaluation, operational evaluation, and post evaluation of the collaborative information system that will support new product development of mould companies in ...

No-wait flowshops circumscribe an important class of sequencing problems in the field of production planning. For no-wait flowshops with total completion time minimization, a permutation of jobs should be find to be processed sequentially on a number of ...

This paper presents a paradigm for real-time conflict detection and resolution in cooperative plant design system using prior knowledge and context. Firstly, the paper discusses the concept of prior knowledge and real-time engineering conflict ...

To realize the heterogeneous XML information processing and integration in Enterprise Management Information Systems, this paper introduces a new application based on popular XML-Global-as-View (XGAV) integrating method. As the combination of GAV and ...

The importance of having a `win-win' relationship between customer and supplier has many significant benefits to both parties and this point is increasingly emphasized by commentators within the context of outsourcing activities. Arguably, for many ...

Negotiation is widely used in agent-based e-business applications. Traditional predefined negotiation approaches cannot fully solve the negotiation automation problem due to their inadequate compatibility and limited adaptability, especially in open ...

This paper presents an engineering framework and engineering service portal to support complex engineering design problems that consist of cooperative engineering processes. It aims at providing an integrated design environment to support the ...

Nowadays organisations are willing to outsource their business processes as services and make them accesible via the Web. In doing so, they can dynamically combine individual services to their service applications. However, unless the data on the Web can ...

In this work, we approach the problem of developing corporate information systems in complex organizations dispersed across large geographical regions. Under these circumstances, management of differences among organizational unit requirements and ...

In order to evaluate human and organization factors, an agent-based simulation approach is proposed, which simulates design process as a continuous interaction process of design agents and environment. Aiming at the characteristics of collaborative ...

J2EE architecture has advantages in developing enterprise-class applications, but it does not support agent-oriented programming. JADE is suitable as a MAS development framework, but it considers less in maintainability, expansibility and stability. ...

The rapid development of modern transportation brings tremendous challenges to the intelligent transport system. Intelligent computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) and wireless communication technology are more and more used in intelligent transport ...

Grid Computing provides the infrastructure needed to access and benefit from distributed resources through Virtual Organizations. Grids will be a vital part in the execution of applications, such as complex simulations. They will also carry applications ...

With the increasing growth in popularity of web services, efficient discovery and matchmaking of relevant web services become significant challenges. Semantic Web provides a promising way to address the challenges by providing markup for web services to ...

XML documents will be modified as time goes by. The successive versions of an XML document are expressed by temporal XML document in an incremental fashion, which provides us a high effective method for version management, so the topics of representing, ...

Driven by the difficult business environment, nowadays enterprises more and more resort to information technology to manage nearly everything internal and to conduct business activities. This puts forward high requirements on information systems and in ...

Data Grid is a new kind of data management infrastructure. To improve access efficiency, large amounts of data on Data Grids need to be replicated in the form of replicas at distributed sites. Due to the limited storage capacity, a good replica ...

Structured P2P systems prove efficient in query operation and adaptive dynamic updates. This paper presents a Grid information services architecture based on structured P2P topology, namely distributed hash table (DHT). It resolves problems which ...

Distributed Virtual Environments (DVEs) are geographically distributed computing systems which allow multiple users to interact simultaneously in computer-generated, shared virtual environments. DVEs are widely applied in many fields, such as online ...

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a process that can cover every mode of customer interaction. This concept has been widely used in business language, enabling companies to gain more knowledge about their customers which can be used to improve ...

One of the critcal issues in Managment Information System (MIS) is the information overload from complicated hierachical menu. Novice users easily get lost when an important and frequently used menu item is rooted and hidden in a deeper level of a ...

Many intrusion behaviors can be characterized as the execution of a sequence of crucial commands that results in an unauthorized access. Lots of attack sequences can be derived by either exchanging properly orders of crucial commands or replacing ...

The issue of secure charging must be solved before integrating networks are employed in commercial applications. In order to solve this problem, a secure incentive-based charging scheme for integrating networks is proposed. The scheme adopts charging ...

One of the most critical points for Communities of Practice is shared information credibility. Professionals only feel secure to reuse solutions presented and discussed within the scope of the community if a process of trusting is well established among ...

The increasing security requirements for distributed collaborations, as well as the trend toward large-scale and remote geographically-dispersed computer systems, have created a growing demand for better trustfulness evaluation of participants involved ...

Automated Trust Negotiation (ATN) is a promising approach to allowing strangers to access sensitive services in open environments. Although many ATN systems are proposed, some issues still remain to be addressed: 1) they are centralized and cannot scale ...

Online travel has its own characteristics which is different from traditional travel on interaction. During the process of online travel, travelers and travel service providers do not meet face to face, which raises a trusting problem between parties. ...

Security issues pertaining to workflow systems are becoming increasingly important for the cross-enterprises interoperability in insecure environments. Among them, access control for information confidentiality and integrity has attracted widespread ...

This paper shows how to use workflows to model collaboration in ad-hoc mobile environments. Particularly, it introduces the concept of "active entity", which is a network-isolated subcomponent of a workflow process. This is shown how active entities ...

Through managing and controlling workflow by workflow management system, computerized business processes can be achieved, and enterprises can get a method to realize better management. This paper focuses on existing workflow management system bugs in ...

Student motivation is a key aspect in achieving successful collaborative learning. In the past, some techniques which help to engage the students in a motivating learning activity have been proposed. Among them, Participatory Simulation is one of the ...

The privacy of e-learning systems has become a big concern. This paper proposes a new approach, which can effectively protect the privacy of elearning users. We propose to use the alias and anonymity to implement the privacy preservation for e-learning ...

Nowadays, people live in the era of knowledge economy in which knowledge have become the most precious resources. So, everyone need to concern a personal problem that is the knowledge come from. The answer is learning. Then, the emergence of e-Learning ...

Development of existing e-Learning has to encounter some bottlenecks which must consider the needs of the learner during the learning processes. Thus, system development started from the educational needs to find the suitable learning technologies. In ...

Sketching can stimulate creativity especially in the idea generation stage of design process. However, there is little research on sketching behaviors with an interactive pen display. This is an experimental study to identify the sketching behavior ...

Current dynamic changes in healthcare organizations have forced the organizations to consider wide improvement of their activities and to adopt the use of new information technologies in all the organizations' activities. Recently, there have been high ...

This paper develops a measurement system that can efficiently gauge an end-user information competency in an information environment. The validity and reliability of the developed tool construct was verified by factor analysis and reliability analysis ...

In heterogeneous reconfigurable systems including FPGA and CPU, besides software tasks and hardware tasks, there exist hybrid tasks which can be either executed on CPU as software tasks or implemented on FPGA as hardware tasks. This paper mainly focuses ...

In rail-vehicle manufacturing enterprises, material costs are main part of total costs, so nesting optimization and material quota is important for enterprise's cost control and supply chain management. Because most parts are rectangular, rectangular ...

Much research has been done in recent years in the apparel industry to incorporate different fabrics, mesh designs, nanomaterials and "smart fabrics" for sports, first responder and military apparel. One application of these technologies exists in next-...

The efficient development and management of end-user e-business capability affect user performance in an e-business environment. We designed an instrument for measuring an end-user's total e-business capability that includes measurement factors and ...

In practice, many process monitoring and control scenarios involve several related variables. However one of the major problems that arise in using a multivariate control chart is the interpretation of out-of-control signals. Although RAM method is a ...

Rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSs) are promoted by many governments to enhance the availability of water resources and reduce the consumption of potable water. However, the traditional evaluation of RWHSs neglects the spatial-temporal complexity of ...

This paper proposes the use of neural network classifiers to evaluate back propagation (BP) and learning vector quantization (LVQ) for feature selection of load identification in a non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) system. To test the performance of ...