From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design
From CSCW to Web 2.0: European Developments in Collaborative Design

Author: David Randall

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-24

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1848829655

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Many challenges were identified in CSCW some thirty years ago, and some of these remain problematic today. However they are being progressively transformed and this edited volume contains contributions that demonstrate how these new challenges are being dealt with in a variety of ways, reflecting the balance of rigour and creativity that has always characterised the field. Originally presented at COOP ’08 which took place in Carry-le-Rouet, France in 2008, the contributions to this volume have been substantially extended and revised. New technologies, new domains and new methods are described for supporting design and evaluation. Taking a progressive and critical stance, the authors cover a variety of themes including inter-organisational working, non task-based environments, creativity, and the development of Web 2.0 (and even Web 3.0) applications, including new cooperative mechanisms and new classification possibilities.

Semantic Web
Semantic Web

Author: Amit Sheth

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2013-03-31

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1466636114

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Semantic web continues to be an increasingly important system for allowing end-users to share and communicate information online. Semantic Web: Ontology and Knowledge Base Enabled Tools, Services and Application focuses on the information systems discipline and the tools and techniques utilized for the emerging use of semantic web. Covering topics on semantic search, ontologies, and recommendation systems, this publication is essential for academics, practitioners, and industry professionals.

Serious Games Development and Applications
Serious Games Development and Applications

Author: Minhua Ma

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 3642336876

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2012, held in Bremen, Germany in September 2012. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover various topics on serious games including engineering, education, health care, military applications, game design, game study, game theories, virtual reality, 3D visualisation and medical applications of games technology.

Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Author: Management Association, Information Resources

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2014-01-31

Total Pages: 1740

ISBN-13: 1466649801

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In a globalized society, individuals in business, government, and a variety of other fields must frequently communicate and work with individuals of different cultures and backgrounds. Effectively bridging the culture gap is critical to success in such scenarios. Cross-Cultural Interaction: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores contemporary research and historical perspectives on intercultural competencies and transnational organizations. This three-volume compilation will present a compendium of knowledge on cultural diversity and the impact this has on modern interpersonal interactions. Within these pages, a variety of researchers, scholars, professionals, and leaders who interact regularly with the global society will find useful insight and fresh perspectives on the field of cross-cultural interaction.

Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence
Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence

Author: Ying Tan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 3319204726

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This book and its companion volumes, LNCS volumes 9140, 9141 and 9142, constitute the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2015 held in conjunction with the Second BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence, CCI 2015, held in Beijing, China in June 2015. The 161 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 294 submissions. The papers are organized in 28 cohesive sections covering all major topics of swarm intelligence and computational intelligence research and development, such as novel swarm-based optimization algorithms and applications; particle swarm opt8imization; ant colony optimization; artificial bee colony algorithms; evolutionary and genetic algorithms; differential evolution; brain storm optimization algorithm; biogeography based optimization; cuckoo search; hybrid methods; multi-objective optimization; multi-agent systems and swarm robotics; Neural networks and fuzzy methods; data mining approaches; information security; automation control; combinatorial optimization algorithms; scheduling and path planning; machine learning; blind sources separation; swarm interaction behavior; parameters and system optimization; neural networks; evolutionary and genetic algorithms; fuzzy systems; forecasting algorithms; classification; tracking analysis; simulation; image and texture analysis; dimension reduction; system optimization; segmentation and detection system; machine translation; virtual management and disaster analysis.

Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing
Advances on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing

Author: Fatos Xhafa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-21

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 3319491091

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P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet computing technologies have been very fast established as breakthrough paradigms for solving complex problems by enabling aggregation and sharing of an increasing variety of distributed computational resources at large scale. The aim of this volume is to provide latest research findings, innovative research results, methods and development techniques from both theoretical and practical perspectives related to P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet computing as well as to reveal synergies among such large scale computing paradigms. This proceedings volume presents the results of the 11th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud And Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2016), held November 5-7, 2016, at Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea

Social Informatics
Social Informatics

Author: Karl Aberer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 364235386X

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2012, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, in December 2012. The 21 full papers, 18 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: social choice mechanisms in the e-society,computational models of social phenomena, social simulation, web mining and its social interpretations, algorithms and protocols inspired by human societies, socio-economic systems and applications, trust, privacy, risk and security in social contexts.

Collaboration and Technology
Collaboration and Technology

Author: Pedro Antunes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 3642413471

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Collaboration Researchers' International Working Group Conference on Collaboration and Technology, held in Wellington, New Zealand, in October/November 2013. The 18 revised papers presented together with 4 progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They are organized into six thematic sessions as follows social media, social networks, crowdsourcing, learning, collaboration design and software development.

Product Development in the Socio-sphere
Product Development in the Socio-sphere

Author: Dirk Schaefer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 3319074040

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This book provides a broad overview of a number of game-changing paradigms that are anticipated to reshape 21st century product development. Topics including cloud computing-based design, cloud manufacturing, crowd-sourcing and mass collaboration, open source and social product development will be discussed in the context of advanced distributed and collaborative product creation. The purpose of the book is threefold: (1) to provide decision makers in industry with a solid base for strategic design and manufacturing-related process re-organization; (2) to provide researchers and scientist with the state-of-the-art from an academic perspective as well as a research agenda aimed at advancing the theoretical foundations of the field and (3) to serve as supplementary reading in design and manufacturing-related courses at universities and technical colleges.