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In the open source community such as GitHub, developers usually need to find projects similar to their work, with the aim to reuse their functions and explore ideas of features that could be possibly added into their project at hand. Traditional text search engine can help detect similar resources. However, it is difficult for developers to use in open source community because a few query words cannot...
More and more E-commerce Websites provide products with different prices which made it hard for consumers to find the products and services they want. In order to overcome this data overload, personalized recommendation engines are used to suggest products and to provide consumers with relevant data to help them decide which products to purchase. Recommendation engines are highly computational and...
This article will present the experience in the development of an intercontinental collaborative project named “Global Factory”, being the first massive academic exploration of this new way of engineering work. The main goal of the project, was to collaboratively design a virtual factory to produce vehicle combustion engines, by using the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software CATIA V6. It was...
One of the scariest aspects of doing business is the failure to come up with the right decision. This is one of the reasons why many businesses have failed because of one small wrong decision. So the aim of this paper is to develop web based business intelligence software as a service to help the enterprise to maximize the profit by analyzing the data and providing detailed graphical view of the business...
Distributed simulation usage in industry has been limited due to its high cost in comparison to its returned benefits. A number of surveys of experts from different background suggested the need of distributed simulation features to overcome its challenges and cost. The RESTful Interoperability Simulation Environment (RISE) middleware, based on RESTful Web-services, deals with these issues. However,...
We present the design and implementation of a generic framework for cooperative multi-issue one-to-many negotiations for optimal service provisioning in collaborative disaster management information systems. The framework allows us to define negotiation protocols, negotiation subjects, properties of negotiation subject issues, deal spaces, and utility functions of participant agents. This framework...
This paper studies a widely used workflow management technology and lightweight J2EE platforms during collaborative software development, and the efficient and rapid development framework for collaborative systems based on both. This article firstly introduces the definition and composition of collaboration software, and explains the features and benefits of open-source JBPM workflow engine based...
In this paper, we propose a collaborative decision support platform that supports the product manager in defining the contents of a product release. The platform allows interactive and collaborative decision making by facilitating the exchange of information about product features among individual autonomous stakeholders, providing reputation-enhanced collaboration, ensuring a positive collaboration...
Use of leading industrial technology in `remote experiments' and `virtual laboratories' delivers authentic experiences to engineering students. Both types of learning resources can easily be shared between universities or industrial partners, leading to dramatic reductions in the costs associated with development, construction, operation and maintenance of traditional laboratory set-ups; however,...
Archiving video conferences is an important feature that allows storing conferences for later playback or for any other possible usage. This part of videoconferencing has never been an active area for most conferencing solutions. Many aspects of archiving conferencing solutions, including application sharing as well as document sharing among the participants, are not properly considered. In this paper...
The design and development of a complex system as well as the simulation of its dynamic behavior are usually involved in multidisciplinary field knowledge. HLA-based collaborative simulation is an effective way to integrate different disciplinary models together in distributed environments. In this paper, the HLA adaptor is adopted to realize model transformation so that models created through commercial...
Collaboration in virtual organizations is usually informal, dynamic and ad-hoc. In this paper, we introduce collaboration patterns as a mechanism to facilitate knowledge-based collaborations. We also propose an event-driven architecture for modeling, recommending and enacting such Collaboration Patterns.
Software development becomes more challenging when teams are geographically distributed. One cause is that certain activities in the development lifecycle are inherently collaborative. This paper presents our experiences applying strategies that improved collaboration on our global team. Our experiences are drawn from a project in which we developed a system to integrate a computer-aided design tool...
This paper addresses specific concerns in the problems existing in IT infrastructure and application systems in Chinese garment enterprises by introducing service management and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) into IT management in enterprises. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of IT departments in enterprises can be reduced and all business be carried out effectively and efficiently by reengineering...
In this paper we present an authoring tool for collaborative visual creation of story outlines. A visual graph-based approach was adopted in order to allow story outlining of a wide range of types and genres of stories, while offering a story representation paradigm suitable for multi-author collaboration and for the integration and organisation of external sources of documentation of the story. Such...
The collaborative simulation for complex products needs seamless integration of multi-discipline tool software on collaborative simulation platform. However, many kinds of tool software do not provide application programming interface (API), which is vital for collaborative simulation. Under the technical framework of complex productspsila collaborative simulation platform, the paper proposes three...
This paper discusses an approach to seamless hybrid connectivity bridging infrastructure-centric and ad-hoc networks to autonomically maximize the potential for sustained connectivity for terminal device users and their services. The architecture and functional attributes of a hybrid connectivity manager are described, and illustrated through deployment in an incident scenario where rescue workers...
Today alone with the software agent technology has being applied into many information systems, like ERP system, CRM system, SCM system and OA system, etc. How to design an autonomic software agent to make sure it can apperceive its (outside) environment to decide and control its own behavior without outside control is still a big problem. Here by research on agent and its collaborative working modes,...
Flexibility, autonomy, distribution and openness of the modern computing systems are properties which expand the spectrum of interactions possible among system components. Moreover these properties tend to impose more rigorous quality requirements on software development. To ensure the quality of distributed applications two notions have already been introduced: concurrency control and fault-tolerance...
With the development of missile weapons in the high-tech local wars, higher performance, shorter lifecycle, and lower cost have become the new requirements for missile design. Consequently, an advanced integrated missile design environment is an instant need to provide the technical support. This paper explores some key technologies of this integrated design environment, including architecture, design...
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