Matching Dynamic Demands of Mobile Users with Dynamic Service Offers

2011 ◽  
pp. 278-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Holtkamp ◽  
Norbert Weißenberg ◽  
Manfred Wojciechowski ◽  
Rudiger Gartmann
Keyword(s):  
Reference Model ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Inference Engines ◽  
Application Ontology ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Semantic Reference ◽  
Upper Level

This chapter describes the use of ontologies for personalized situation-aware information and service supply of mobile users in different application domains. A modular application ontology, composed of upper-level ontologies such as location and time ontologies and of domain-specific ontologies, acts as a semantic reference model for a compatible description of user demands and service offers in a service-oriented information-logistical platform. The authors point out that the practical deployment of the platform proved the viability of the conceptual approach and exhibited the need for a more performant implementation of inference engines in mobile multi-user scenarios. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying concepts and domain-specific application constraints will help researchers and practitioners building more sophisticated applications not only in the domains tackled in this chapter but also transferring the concepts to other domains.

Matching Dynamic Demands of Mobile Users with Dynamic Service Offers

2009 ◽  
pp. 3404-3420
Author(s):  
Bernhard Holtkamp ◽  
Norbert Weißenberg ◽  
Manfred Wojciechowski
Keyword(s):  
Reference Model ◽  
Mobile Users ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Inference Engines ◽  
Application Ontology ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Semantic Reference ◽  
Upper Level

This chapter describes the use of ontologies for personalized situation-aware information and service supply of mobile users in different application domains. A modular application ontology, composed of upper-level ontologies such as location and time ontologies and of domain-specific ontologies, acts as a semantic reference model for a compatible description of user demands and service offers in a service-oriented information- logistical platform. The authors point out that the practical deployment of the platform proved the viability of the conceptual approach and exhibited the need for a more performant implementation of inference engines in mobile multi-user scenarios. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the underlying concepts and domain-specific application constraints will help researchers and practitioners building more sophisticated applications not only in the domains tackled in this chapter but also transferring the concepts to other domains.

Cloud-Based Intelligent User Interface for Cloud Manufacturing: Model, Technology, and Application

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Jin Cui ◽  
Ni Li ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Cuixia Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business from traditional production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing. The development of cloud manufacturing in industry practice is closely related to domain-specific user experience. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry are facing great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus, user interface issues play a significant role in pushing this new area forward. In this paper, we discuss the key characteristics of intelligent user interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction. Finally, we present SketchPart, a sketch-based pad system prototype for searching part drawings in the cloud, to show the advantages of the proposed cloud-plus-IUI solution.

scholarly journals Conceptual Demography in Upper Secondary Chemistry and Biology Textbooks’ Descriptions of Protein Synthesis: A Matter of Context?

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. ar51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara J. Wahlberg ◽  
Niklas M. Gericke
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Secondary Chemistry ◽  
Biology Textbooks ◽  
Biology Textbook ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Chemistry Textbooks ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Technical Terms

This study investigates how the domain-specific language of molecular life science is mediated by the comparative contexts of chemistry and biology education. We study upper secondary chemistry and biology textbook sections on protein synthesis to reveal the conceptual demography of concepts central to the communication of this subject. The term “conceptual demography” refers to the frequency, distribution, and internal relationships between technical terms mediating a potential conceptual meaning of a phenomenon. Data were collected through a content analysis approach inspired by text summarization and text mining techniques. Chemistry textbooks were found to present protein synthesis using a mechanistic approach, whereas biology textbooks use a conceptual approach. The chemistry texts make no clear distinction between core terms and peripheral terms but use them equally frequently and give equal attention to all relationships, whereas biology textbooks focus on core terms and mention and relate them to each other more frequently than peripheral terms. Moreover, chemistry textbooks typically segment the text, focusing on a couple of technical terms at a time, whereas biology textbooks focus on overarching structures of the protein synthesis. We argue that it might be fruitful for students to learn protein synthesis from both contexts to build a meaningful understanding.

MULTI‐LAYERED KNOWLEDGE‐BASED ARCHITECTURE OF THE ADAPTABLE DISTANCE LEARNING SYSTEM

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalė Dzemydienė ◽  
Lina Tankelevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Distance Learning System ◽  
Learning System Architecture ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
E Learning

The quality of the distance learning courses is largely influenced by competently prepared educational resources and an effective study support system. One of the possible ways to improve distance learning infrastructure and increase its effectiveness is to extend the architecture of present e‐learning systems by the components for adaptable and sustainable learning. This research work is devoted to developing the service‐oriented distance learning environment adaptable to the user's needs. The proposed adaptable communication environment of distance learning is constructed by integration of new components of communication scenarios generation, adaptable for student's goals, multilayered domain ontology of learning subject and forming intelligent agents’ framework possible. The paper presents the knowledge‐based component architecture of the distance learning system, which enables a better adaptation of learning resources to students. The paper analyses the possibilities of integrating ontology into the e‐learning system. The issues of decomposing ontology into different levels of understanding are discussed in order to adapt to learner's tasks and goals. A conceptual approach is proposed for extending the existing distance learning system architecture by intelligent and deeper knowledge layers. Santrauka Nuotolinių studijų kokybė daugiausia priklauso nuo kompetentingai parengtų mokomųjų priemonių ir veiksmingai veikiančios studijų paramos sistemos. Ieškant priemonių, kaip pagerinti nuotolinių studijų sistemos infrastruktūrą ir padidinti jos darbo efektyvumą, nagrinėjamos galimybės praplėsti tradicinės nuotolinio mokymo sistemos architektūrą komponentėmis, kurios leistų išplėtoti adaptuotą ir darnų mokymosi procesą. Šio tyrimo uždaviniai skirti paslaugoms, skirtoms išvystyti nuotolinio mokymo aplinką. Siekiant sukurti tinkamą kompiuterizuotą bendradarbiavimo aplinką, lanksčiai prisitaikoma prie kintančių vartotojo poreikių studijų procese. Architektūra projektuojama integruojant naujas komponentes bendravimo scenarijams generuoti, daugelio lygių dalykinės srities ontologijai naudoti ir sudarant sąlygas automatizuotam intelektinių agentų bendravimui. Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos galimybės integruoti dalykinės srities ontologiją į tradicinės nuotolinio mokymo sistemos aplinką. Ontologijos detalizavimo pagal studento supratimo lygmenis klausimai nagrinėjami siekiant pateikti koncepcinį tokios nuotolinės adaptuotos sistemos darbo modelį.

NeoIDL: A Domain Specific Language for Specifying REST Contracts Detailed Design and Extended Evaluation

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (09n10) ◽  
pp. 1653-1675
Author(s):  
Lucas Lima ◽  
Rodrigo Bonifácio ◽  
Edna Canedo ◽  
Thiago Mael de Castro ◽  
Ricardo Fernandes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Domain Specific Language ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Service Specification ◽  
Data Formats ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Description Languages ◽  
Contract Specification

Service-oriented computing has emerged as an effective approach for integrating business (and systems) that might spread throughout different organizations. A service is a unit of logic modularization that hides implementation details using well-defined contracts. However, existing languages for contract specification in this domain present several limitations. For instance, both WSDL and Swagger use language-independent data formats (XML and JSON) that are not suitable for specifying contracts and often lead to heavyweight specifications. Interface description languages, such as CORBA IDL and Apache Thrift, solve this issue by providing specific languages for contract specifications. Nevertheless, these languages do not target to the REST architectural style and lack support for language extensibility. In this paper we present the design and implementation of NeoIDL, an extensible domain specific language and program generator for writing REST based contracts that are further translated into service’s implementations. In addition, we also present a systematic evaluation of our approach from different perspectives, which involved the implementation of different services using NeoIDL from the domain of Command & Control. In particular, we found initial evidences that shows that NeoIDL can contribute: (i) to bring return on investment with respect to the design and development of NeoIDL, after the implementation of 4 to 7 services; and (ii) to reduce significantly the number of lines of specification when compared to an existing service specification language such as Swagger.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Framework for Artificial Creativity in Visual Arts

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Sirbu ◽  
Ioan Dumitrache
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Visual Perception ◽  
Artificial System ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Creative Cognition ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Abstract Approach ◽  
Artificial Creativity

The present paper introduces the conceptual framework for an artificial system for visual creativity addressing the idea of niche creativity that is domain specific and non-anthropocentric in its conceptual approach. We think that the visual creative output of the system reflects the artificial medium and the specific artificial processes engaged in its production and, therefore, it is an expression of the idea of embodied creativity with the proposed system offering in this sense an example of digital embodiment of creativity. Although our approach to artificial creativity is non-anthropocentric, the system design is inspired by processes in the natural world that lead to the production of new and useful structures in both living and non-living systems with human creative cognition being included among these processes. The main problem raised by this abstract approach to artificial creativity in visual arts is the compatibility of its artistic production with human aesthetics, the ultimate goal of the proposed system being to produce visual output that would aesthetically engage human visual perception.

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