BibSonomy publications for /user/flint63/ieeeTue Jul 22 11:53:40 CEST 2008Computer4102-104Activity Recognition for the Digital Home412008recognition network ai embedded paper v0805 home ieee action pattern Home networked devices enable a wide range of daily activities including multiplayer gaming, movie downloading, and music streaming as well as modern conveniences such as home automation, wireless networking, and Internet access. Nevertheless, for most of us the futuristic digital home we see in movies isn't a reality. Patterns mined from home networks can support smarter applications.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Proc. of the Third International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid338-341Better Behavioral Description for Dynamic Semantic Web Services Collaboration2007semantic web v0805 ai ieee service paper interface Semantic Web services aim at enabling automatic service operations in order to keep human intervention to a minimum, enable seamless interaction between the services, reduce the risk of operation errors, and maximize the efficiency of the interactions. Current semantic Web services are functionally well-described, but behaviorally poorly-described especially for complex Web services. This defect may cause behavioral mismatches although the provider and the requester are functionally compatible. This paper presents a Web service behavioral description model with public and private processes, illuminates the importance of public process for complex Web service interactions, and proposes an approach to improve Web service behavioral description based on current proposed semantic Web services conceptual models.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Intelligent Systems341-49The Semantic Web: Apotheosis of Annotation, but What Are Its Semantics?232008ieee paper language ai semantic v0805 web processing knowledge This article discusses what kind of entity the proposed Semantic Web (SW) is, principally by reference to the relationship of natural language structure to knowledge representation (KR). There are three distinct views on this issue. The first is that the SW is basically a renaming of the traditional AI KR task, with all its problems and challenges. The second view is that the SW will be, at a minimum, the World Wide Web with its constituent documents annotated so as to yield their content, or meaning structure, more directly. This view makes natural language processing central as the procedural bridge from texts to KR, usually via some form of automated information extraction. The third view is that the SW is about trusted databases as the foundation of a system of Web processes and services. There's also a fourth view, which is much more difficult to define and discuss: If the SW just keeps moving as an engineering development and is lucky, then real problems won't arise. This article is part of a special issue called Semantic Web Update.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer297-100Social Networking412008web software application ieee paper interaction community v0805 user The mass adoption of social-networking websites points to an evolution in human social interaction.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer12118-120Taking Online Maps Down to Street Level4020073d user paper google interface map image v0805 ieee graphics StreetView enables simple navigation between street-level images without losing the map concept.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008IT Professional610-15Supporting Group-Oriented Mobile Services Transactions92007v0805 team paper mobile transaction middleware business data ieee network A middleware framework for wireless networks---including 3G/4G---provides solutions for managing transactions in group-oriented mobile services such as auctions, financial services, and multiparty interactive games.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Internet Computing424-34Architectural Alternatives for Information Filtering in Structured Overlays112007p2p v0805 paper retrieval ieee middleware information Content providers are naturally distributed and produce large amounts of new information every day. Peer-to-peer information filtering is a promising approach that offers scalability, adaptivity to high dynamics, and failure resilience. The authors developed two approaches that utilize the chord distributed hash table as the routing substrate, but one stresses retrieval effectiveness, whereas the other relaxes recall guarantees to achieve lower message traffic and thus better scalability. This article highlights the two approaches' main characteristics, presents the issues and trade-offs involved in their design, and compares them in terms of scalability, efficiency, and filtering effectiveness.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer12114-117Enhancing the User Experience in Mobile Phones402007interface v0805 ieee device design mobile interaction engineering user paper To remain competitive, mobile-device vendors, developers, and network operators must provide end users with a rich and satisfying experience.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Intelligent Systems48-9A Semantic Future for AI212006information community web ai management ieee semantic paper v0805 device mobile Computing must become much more human centered--for example, by presenting personalized information to users and by respecting personal preferences when controlling multiple devices or invoking various services. Appropriate representation of the information's semantics and of the functionality of devices and services will be critical to such personalized computing. Symbolic artificial intelligence techniques provide the method of choice for the required semantic-representation and reasoning capabilities.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Internet Computing367-73XULRunner: A New Approach for Developing Rich Internet Applications112007development application web browser xul v0805 paper gui ieee software The Web 2.0 world abounds with solutions for developing Web-based rich Internet applications (RIAs). Desktop application developers have seen a similar maturation of full-featured frameworks to help simplify development. Mozilla's XULRunner application runtime engine offers a compromise between Web-based RIAs and a desktop application's powerMon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008IT Professional218-24Sharing Service Semantics using SOAP-Based and REST Web Services82006paper rest web ieee v0805 service protocol software soa Combine the best attributes from these different approaches to Web services by exploiting what they have in common.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008IT Professional442-45Semantic Web Services: An Unfulfilled Promise92007ontology web v0805 architecture service paper ieee semantic ai Work on realizing semantic Web services has yet to take a holistic perspective. To regain the proper focus, architecture designers must reverse engineer service requirements and adjust the infrastructure accordingly.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Proceedings of the IEEE91327-1354Speech-Gesture Driven Multimodal Interfaces for Crisis Management9120033d ai management interface v0805 information multimodal graphics language crisis paper ieee spatial processing Emergency response requires strategic assessment of risks, decisions, and communications that are time critical while requiring teams of individuals to have fast access to large volumes of complex information and technologies that enable tightly coordinated work. The access to this information by crisis management teams in emergency operations centers can be facilitated through various human-computer interfaces. Unfortunately, these interfaces are hard to use, require extensive training, and often impede rather than support teamwork. Dialogue-enabled devices, based on natural, multimodal interfaces, have the potential of making a variety of information technology tools accessible during crisis management. This paper establishes the importance of multimodal interfaces in various aspects of crisis management and explores many issues in realizing successful speech-gesture driven, dialogue-enabled interfaces for crisis management. This paper is organized in five parts. The first part discusses the needs of crisis management that can be potentially met by the development of appropriate interfaces. The second part discusses the issues related to the design and development of multimodal interfaces in the context of crisis management. The third part discusses the state of the art in both the theories and practices involving these human-computer interfaces. In particular, it describes the evolution and implementation details of two representative systems, Crisis Management (XISM) and Dialog Assisted Visual Environment for Geoinformation (DAVE/spl I.bar/G). The fourth part speculates on the short-term and long-term research directions that will help addressing the outstanding challenges in interfaces that support dialogue and collaboration. Finally, the fifth part concludes the paper.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer1042-51Embedded System Design for Automotive Applications402007software v0805 middleware traffic engineering development embedded paper ieee To optimize the system design and allow for plug and play of subsystems, automotive electronic system architecture evaluation and development must be supported with a robust design flow based on virtual platforms.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008IEEE Internet Computing151-54Context-Aware Adaptation of Access-Control Policies122008crisis v0805 paper management data adaptive secure ieee Today, public-service delivery mechanisms such as hospitals, police, and fire departments rely on digital generation, storage, and analysis of vital information. To protect critical digital resources, these organizations employ access-control mechanisms, which define rules under which authorized users can access the resources they need to perform organizational tasks. Natural or man-made disasters pose a unique challenge, whereby previously defined constraints can potentially debilitate an organization's ability to act. Here, the authors propose employing contextual parameters---specifically, activity context in the form of emergency warnings---to adapt access-control policies according to a priori configuration.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Internet Computing118-25Wireless Mesh Networks for Public Safety and Crisis Management Applications122008management paper p2p ieee v0805 network mobile crisis Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are multihop wireless networks with self-healing and self-configuring capabilities. These features, plus the ability to provide wireless broadband connectivity at a comparatively low cost, make WMNs a promising technology for a wide range of applications. While discussing the suitability of WMN technology for public safety and crisis management communication, this article highlights its strengths and limitations and points to current and future research in this context.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer965-72Modeling Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction372004v0805 design user paper uml interface ieee multimodal interaction Incorporating the well-known Unified Modeling Language into a generic modeling framework makes research on multimodal human-computer interaction accessible to a wide range off software engineers. Multimodal interaction is part of everyday human discourse: We speak, move, gesture, and shift our gaze in an effective flow of communication. Recent initiatives such as perceptual and attentive user interfaces put these natural human behaviors in the center of the human-computer interaction (HCI). We've designed a generic modeling framework for specifying multimodal HCI using the Object Management Group's Unified Modeling Language. Because it's a well-known and widely supported standard - computer science departments typically cover it in undergraduate courses, and many books, training courses, and tools support it - UML makes it easier for software engineers unfamiliar with multimodal research to apply HCI knowledge, resulting in broader and more practical effects. Standardization provides a significant driving force for further progress because it codifies best practices, enables and encourages reuse, and facilitates interworking between complementary tools.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer234-41Wikis: From Each According to His Knowledge412008v0805 management information paper ieee wiki web team software Wikis offer tremendous potential to capture knowledge from large groups of people, making tacit, hidden content explicit and widely available. They also efficiently connect those with information to those seeking it.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008Computer790-93{SensorMap} for Wide-Area Sensor Webs402007map web paper soap storage network ieee application processing microsoft sensor information data windows spatial v0805 Geocentric Web interfaces such as Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps are useful for visualizing spatially and geographically related data such as driving directions, directory entries, and weather and traffic conditions, to name a few. The desire to add useful information to these interfaces has led developers to create custom applications that overlay housing prices, crime rates, bus locations, and other data on top of browsable maps. These applications are possible due to useful APIs that Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth publish to overlay location data on maps. We envision a new class of applications that relies on real-time sensor data and its mash-up with the geocentric Web to provide instantaneous environmental visibility and timely decision support.Mon Jul 07 13:47:29 CEST 2008IT Professional434-41Understanding Web 2.092007community software paper newsfeeds wiki tagging blog bookmark web ieee application v0805 Web 2.0, the second phase in the Web's evolution, is attracting the attention of IT professionals, businesses, and Web users. Web 2.0 is also called the wisdom Web, people-centric Web, participative Web, and read/write Web. Web 2.0 harnesses the Web in a more interactive and collaborative manner, emphasizing peers' social interaction and collective intelligence, and presents new opportunities for leveraging the Web and engaging its users more effectively. Within the last two to three years, Web 2.0, ignited by successful Web 2.0 based social applications such as MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube, has been forging new applications that were previously unimaginable.