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CSCWD’09 – Keynote Speakers
Similar to previous versions of
the Conference, important researchers will be delivering a keynote speech.
In this opportunity, the keynote speakers will be:
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Dr. Kori Inkpen
Microsoft Research
Redmond Lab., USA
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Many Computers, Many People, and Everything in
between: Supporting Shared Computing
Over the years we have seen a
shift from mainframe computing, to personal computing, to a world heavily
dominated by web interactions. Users today have access to a wide variety
of devices and advances in social computing now enable users to keep in
touch with colleagues, friends, and family all over the world; however,
we are still limited by the one-user/one-computer origins of PC
technology. Whether we want to interact with people in the same room,
down the hall, or 10,000km away; whether we want to work together, or
apart, at the same time, or independently, our computing environments
need to adapt. In this talk I will emphasize the importance of designing
for “shared computing”; the notion that devices as well as experiences
are often shared, and we need to effectively support all dimensions of
shared use. Extending a design from individual to shared use is more than
adding a few new features and often, the underlying conceptual model of
the system must change. This talk will reflect on where we’ve come from,
current stumbling blocks, and where we are headed.
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Dr. Michael N. Huhns
University of South Carolina, USA.
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Multiagent Systems and Semantic Services for Very Large-Scale
Participatory Design
There are a number of important societal
problems that resist conventional, i.e., centralized, solutions.
The problems affect the management of our economic systems,
climate, energy systems, transportation systems, telecommunication
systems, and infrastructure. They
are characterized as being distributed and many-faceted, with a large
number of interdependent components.
For example, the routes of trains and automobile traffic are
designed centrally and statically by transportation engineers, rather
than designed in real time by the passengers being transported. Allowing the passengers to be
responsible for the transportation system constitutes a form of design
that is
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Large-scale, because of the size of the system being designed and
the number of designers
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Spatially distributed, in terms of both the system and the
designers
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Temporally distributed, because the design of the system evolves
over time and the designers interact with it over a long time period
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Participatory, although not necessarily cooperative.
There are many similar examples where design is
typically done in a centralized manner, but could be done much better in
a distributed manner. How can this
sort of design be supported? It
requires a form of consensus, semantic mediation, and intelligent
distributed support. In this talk
I will describe how large-scale distributed design can be done with the
aid of multiagent systems that produce consensus.
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Dr. Silvio Meira
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco em Recife, Brazil
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Collaborative Projects as
Social Networks
Institutions, large and small, are increasingly using internet
infrastructure, services and applications to decentralize staff and
operations, evolving from a closed to an open house, networked
environment, where more and more informal knowledge needs to be shared
and managed. At the same time, with a very large percentage of corporate
processes being formally supported by information systems, there is an
ever increasing gap separating the institutions' explicit and implicit
knowledge silos.
In this talk, we describe a social network infrastructure
currently in use in a number of corporations and the way in which we are
integrating the notion of project as an integral part of the system. We
also discuss how such combination of formal/informal knowledge management
can be an essential feature of collaborative work in corporations and
development efforts in general.
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