Cooperative Interfaces To Information Systems

Author : Leonard Bolc,Matthias Jarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642828157

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Cooperative Interfaces to Information Systems by Leonard Bolc,Matthias Jarke Pdf

Information systems are large repositories of factual and inferential knowledge intended to be queried and maintained by a wide variety of users with different backgrounds and work tasks. The community of potential information system users is growing rapidly with advances in hardware and software technology that permit computer/communications support for more and more application areas. Unfortunately, it is often felt that progress in user interface technology has not quite matched that of other areas. Technical solutions such as computer graphics, natural language processing, or man-machine-man communications in office systems are not enough by themselves. They should be complemented by system features that ensure cooperative behavior of the interfaces, thus reducing the training and usage effort required for successful interaction. In analogy to a human dialog partner, we call an interface cooperative if it does not just accept user requests passively or answer them literally, but actively attempts to understand the users' intentions and to help them solve their applica tion problems. This leads to the central question addressed by this book: What makes an information systems interface cooperative, and how do we provide capabilities leading to cooperative interfaces? Many answers are possible. A first aspect concerns the formulation and accep tance of user requests. Many researchers assume that such requests should be formulated in natural language.

Author : Yanbo Han,Stefan Tai,Dietmar Wikarski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540457855

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Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems by Yanbo Han,Stefan Tai,Dietmar Wikarski Pdf

Today, technologies for engineering and deployment of cooperative information systems have become increasingly critical in the construction of practically all types of large-scale distributed systems. Stimulating forums with different focuses are thus still in need of researchers and professionals from academia and industry to exchange ideas and experience and to establish working relationships. The idea to organize in China an academic event focusing on current topics in the field was born during the IFIP World Computer Congress 2000 that was held in Beijing, China. And here are the proceedings of EDCIS 2002! This volume comprises the technical research papers accepted for presentation at EDCIS 2002. Of the initial 159 paper submissions involving nearly 500 authors from 14 countries of all continents, 45 papers were carefully selected. Every paper was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee, and judged - cording to its technical merit and soundness, originality, significance, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The accepted papers cover various s- jects such as workflow technology, coordination technology, advanced trans- tions, groupware systems, semantic web, ontologies, mobile agents, and enterprise modeling, and enterprise application integration.

Author : Trevor Wood-Harper,Nimal Jayaratna,Bob Wood
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447136293

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Methodologies for Developing and Managing Emerging Technology Based Information Systems by Trevor Wood-Harper,Nimal Jayaratna,Bob Wood Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the BCS Specialist Group on Information Systems Methodologies. The conference brought together papers on methodology issues related to the development and management of emerging technology based information systems. As usual there was a good range of papers addressing the 'soft' and 'hard' aspects of IS development and management. Methodologies for Developing and Managing Emerging Technology-based Information Systems will be of interest to practitioners who are engaged in systems development and modifying or aligning existing methodologies to practice.

Author : Robert Meersman,Tharam Dillon,Pilar Herrero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642169618

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 by Robert Meersman,Tharam Dillon,Pilar Herrero Pdf

In 2007 the IS wo- shop (Information Security) was added to try covering also the speci?c issues of security in complex Internet-based information systems.

Author : Adrian Stanciulescu
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782874631146

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A Methodology for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces of Information Systems by Adrian Stanciulescu Pdf

The Graphical User Interface (GUI), as the most prevailing type of User Interface (UI) in today's interactive applications, restricts the interaction with a computer to the visual modality and is therefore not suited for some users (e.g., with limited literacy or typing skills), in some circumstances (e.g., while moving around, with their hands or eyes busy) or when the environment is constrained (e.g., the keyboard and the mouse are not available). In order to go beyond the GUI constraints, the Multimodal (MM) UIs apear as paradigm that provide users with great expressive power, naturalness and flexibility. In this thesis we argue that developing MM UIs combining graphical and vocal modalities is an activity that could benefit from the application of a methodology which is composed of: a set of models, a method manipulating these models and the tools implementing the method. Therefore, we define a design space-based method that is supported by model-to-model colored transformations in order to obtain MM UIs of information systems. The design space is composed of explicitly defined design options that clarify the development process in a structured way in order to require less design effort. The feasability of the methodology is demonstrated through three case studies with different levels of complexity and coverage. In addition, an empirical study is conducted with end-users in order to measure the relative usability level provided by different design decisions.

Author : Peter H. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447138181

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Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS94) by Peter H. Sawyer Pdf

A brief survey of the major DBMS and HeI conference proceedings over the past 10 years will reveal isolated pockets of research in database user interfaces but little sense of being swept along with the general advances in DBMS technology and Hel. New data models have evolved to meet the needs of different application domains; persistent programming languages are blurring the traditional distinction between data definition and application programming languages; distribution and inter-operability have become issues as have the storage of heterogeneous media types; yet it is still rare to read of the HeI issues raised by these technological innovations being expressly addressed and rarer still to find recognition of the usability problems with longer-established database technologies. There are at least two reasons why this should be surprising: • Database systems are not like other computer systems; existing both as back-ends to other applications and as stand-alone data stores, they are typically slow, deal with very large volumes of data and can involve all sorts of security, confidentiality and even cooperability issues. • Databases are everywhere. Perhaps only word processors and spread sheets are more widespread. In addition, as business cultures change and personal computing continues to mould expectations, end-users find themselves interacting increasingly closely with database systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
ISBN : UIUC:30112113394099

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Directory of Automated Criminal Justice Information Systems by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tieniu Tan,Yuanchun Shi,Wen Gao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540400639

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Advances in Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI 2000 by Tieniu Tan,Yuanchun Shi,Wen Gao Pdf

Multimodal Interfaces represents an emerging interdisciplinary research direction and has become one of the frontiers in Computer Science. Multimodal interfaces aim at efficient, convenient and natural interaction and communication between computers (in their broadest sense) and human users. They will ultimately enable users to interact with computers using their everyday skills. These proceedings include the papers accepted for presentation at the Third International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2000) held in Beijing, China on 1416 O ctober 2000. The papers were selected from 172 contributions submitted worldwide. Each paper was allocated for review to three members of the Program Committee, which consisted of more than 40 leading researchers in the field. Final decisions of 38 oral papers and 48 poster papers were made based on the reviewers’ comments and the desire for a balance of topics. The decision to have a single track conference led to a competitive selection process and it is very likely that some good submissions are not included in this volume. The papers collected here cover a wide range of topics such as affective and perceptual computing, interfaces for wearable and mobile computing, gestures and sign languages, face and facial expression analysis, multilingual interfaces, virtual and augmented reality, speech and handwriting, multimodal integration and application systems. They represent some of the latest progress in multimodal interfaces research.

Author : Alistair D.N. Edwards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540550461

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Multimedia Interface Design in Education by Alistair D.N. Edwards Pdf

This book is about the design and use of advanced multimedia interfaces for learning. Each chapter is concerned with some aspect of the theory or practice of multimedia interfaces and their use as tools to facilitate human learning. The chapters treat the issue from a wide variety of perspectives, including human-computer interaction, interface design, artificial intelligence, intelligent tutoring systems, psychology, education, and music. Three points distinguish the book: It is specifically about the use of multiple media in educational contexts; it addresses the use of multiple media within human-computer interaction, not merely the use of computers to mediate multimedia presentations; it addresses the problems from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives, not simply a technology-driven pragmatism. The book is based on papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in September 1989 as part of the NATO Science Committee six-year Programme on Advanced Educational Technology.

Author : Julie Dugdale,Cédric Masclet,Maria Antonietta Grasso,Jean-François Boujut,Parina Hassanaly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447140931

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From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges by Julie Dugdale,Cédric Masclet,Maria Antonietta Grasso,Jean-François Boujut,Parina Hassanaly Pdf

COOP 2012 is the tenth COOP conference, marking twenty years from the first conference in 1992. In this special anniversary edition we asked researchers and practitioners to reflect on what have been the successes and the failures in designing cooperative systems, and what challenges still need to be addressed. We have come a long way in understanding the intricacies of cooperation and in designing systems that support work practices and collective activities. These advances would not have been possible without the concerted effort of contributions from a plethora of domains including CSCW, HCI, Information Systems, Knowledge Engineering, Multi-agent systems, organizational and management sciences, sociology, psychology, anthropology, ergonomics, linguistics, etc. The COOP community is going from strength to strength in developing new technologies, advancing and proposing new methodological approaches, and forging theories.

Author : Troels Andreasen,Henning Christiansen,Henrik L. Larsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540650822

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Flexible Query Answering Systems by Troels Andreasen,Henning Christiansen,Henrik L. Larsen Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Third International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS'98, held in Roskilde, Denmark, in May 1998. The 32 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and went through two rounds of selection for inclusion in the proceedings. This book is the first one focused on flexible query answering systems; this emerging area of research and development builts on results from mathematical logic, fuzzy logic, various database paradigms, information retrieval, linguistics, and human computer-interaction. The papers deal with issues occuring in querying databases and the Internet.

Author : Michael J. Smith,Gavriel Salvendy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540733546

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Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting in Information Environments by Michael J. Smith,Gavriel Salvendy Pdf

This is the second of a two-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Symposium on Human Interface 2007, held in Beijing, China in July 2007. It covers communication and collaboration, knowledge, learning and education, mobile interaction, interacting with the world wide web and electronic services, business management and industrial applications, as well as environment, transportation and safety.

Author : Balram, Shivanand,Dragicevic, Suzana
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781591408475

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Collaborative Geographic Information Systems by Balram, Shivanand,Dragicevic, Suzana Pdf

"This book provides a comprehensive treatment of collaborative GIS focusing on system design, group spatial planning and mapping; modeling, decision support, and visualization; and internet and wireless applications"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 8104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522522560

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Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition by Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi Pdf

In recent years, our world has experienced a profound shift and progression in available computing and knowledge sharing innovations. These emerging advancements have developed at a rapid pace, disseminating into and affecting numerous aspects of contemporary society. This has created a pivotal need for an innovative compendium encompassing the latest trends, concepts, and issues surrounding this relevant discipline area. During the past 15 years, the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology has become recognized as one of the landmark sources of the latest knowledge and discoveries in this discipline. The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition is a 10-volume set which includes 705 original and previously unpublished research articles covering a full range of perspectives, applications, and techniques contributed by thousands of experts and researchers from around the globe. This authoritative encyclopedia is an all-encompassing, well-established reference source that is ideally designed to disseminate the most forward-thinking and diverse research findings. With critical perspectives on the impact of information science management and new technologies in modern settings, including but not limited to computer science, education, healthcare, government, engineering, business, and natural and physical sciences, it is a pivotal and relevant source of knowledge that will benefit every professional within the field of information science and technology and is an invaluable addition to every academic and corporate library.

Author : T.L. Nyerges,D.M. Mark,Robert Laurini,Max J. Egenhofer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401101035

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Cognitive Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction for Geographic Information Systems by T.L. Nyerges,D.M. Mark,Robert Laurini,Max J. Egenhofer Pdf

A significant part of understanding how people use geographic information and technology concerns human cognition. This book provides the first comprehensive in-depth examination of the cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction for geographic information systems (GIS). Cognitive aspects are treated in relation to individual, group, behavioral, institutional, and cultural perspectives. Extensions of GIS in the form of spatial decision support systems and SDSS for groups are part of the geographic information technology considered. Audience: Geographic information users, systems analysts and system designers, researchers in human-computer interaction will find this book an information resource for understanding cognitive aspects of geographic information technology use, and the methods appropriate for examining this use.