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Presenting the Past: A Framework for Facilitating the Externalization and Articulation of User Activities in Desktop Environment
2006
Work processes are conducted in various contexts and they involve different tasks, interruptions, activities and actions. In all of these, tacit knowledge plays a part. Some part of that tacit knowledge can be externalized and articulated by continuously monitoring the users activities. Because the desktop environment is an integral part of almost any office work context, we chart the demands the unstructured and discontinuous nature of work puts on the management of desktop working context. We discuss possibilities to augment the users awareness of his/her desktop working environment by providing a context-aware application that can act as a map-like resource for the users past activiti…
From information to conversation
2000
We support the calls from many commentators to include human interaction in the web, rather than as an extra outside the web. We suggest a generic model of awareness, and some specific interpretations: action-event couplings to call a receiver; general awareness of known others; and local awareness of all others. We then consider extensions to the web into mobile and domestic appliances, and suggest that an underlying awareness service will be needed there as much, or more than in classic desktop web access.
A Virtual Shopper Customer Assistant in Pervasive Environments
2007
In this work we propose a smart, human-like PDA-based personal shopper assistant. The system is able to understand the user needs through a spoken natural language interaction and then stores the preferences of the potential customer. Subsequently the personal shopper suggests the most suitable items and shops that match the user profile. The interaction is given by automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies; localization is allowed by the use of Wireless technologies, while the interaction is performed by an Alice-based chat-bot endowed with reasoning capabilities. Besides, being implemented on a PDA, the personal shopper satisfies the user needs of mobility and it is als…
First Dark Matter Search Results from the XENON1T Experiment
2017
We report the first dark matter search results from XENON1T, a ∼2000-kg-target-mass dual-phase (liquid-gas) xenon time projection chamber in operation at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy and the first ton-scale detector of this kind. The blinded search used 34.2 live days of data acquired between November 2016 and January 2017. Inside the (1042±12)-kg fiducial mass and in the [5,40] keVnr energy range of interest for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter searches, the electronic recoil background was (1.93±0.25)×10-4 events/(kg×day×keVee), the lowest ever achieved in such a dark matter detector. A profile likelihood analysis shows that the data are consisten…
Implementing a Semantic Catalogue of Geospatial Data.
2014
International audience; Complex spatial analysis requires the combination of heterogeneous datasets. However the identification of a dataset of interest is not a trivial task. Users need to review metadata records in order to select the most suitable datasets. We propose the implementation of a system for metadata management based on semantic web technologies. Our implementation helps the user with the selection task. In this paper, we present a CSW that uses a triplestore as its metadata repository. We implement a translator between Filter Encoding and SPARQL/GeoSPARQL in order to comply to basic OGC standards. Our results are promising however, this is a novel field with room for improvem…
un modèle sémantique spatio-temporel pour capturer la dynamique des environnements
2014
National audience; Les Systèmes d'Information Géographique se sont peu à peu imposés comme des outils performants pour organiser, représenter, analyser et visualiser des données géographiques. Toutefois, l'intégration d'une dimension temporelle dans les SIG reste un défi de la recherche en sciences de l'information géographique. Dès lors, le développement de modèles spatio-temporels adaptés à l'étude de phénomènes géographiques réels devient un enjeu majeur dans la conception de systèmes d'informations dédiés à l'évolution d'entités spatiales. Dans ces travaux, nous proposons un nouveau modèle spatio-temporel basé sur une ontologie intégrant les connaissances des experts sur les données géo…
LC3: un modèle spatial et sémantique pour découvrir la connaissance dans les jeux de données géospatiaux
2015
National audience; Il est nécessaire pour les gérants de territoires d’avoir un aperçu des connaissances actuelles et de l’évolution de certaines caractéristiques de la biosphère. Les outils de télédétection enregistrent une grande quantité d’informations liées à la couverture terrestre permettant l’étude de processus dynamiques. Toutefois, le volume des jeux de données nécessite de nouveaux outils pour identifier des motifs et extraire de la connaissance. Nous proposons un modèle capable de découvrir la connaissance sur des données parcellaires et permettant l’analyse des phénomènes dynamiques à l’aide de données temporelles, spatiales et thématiques. Le modèle est appelé Land Cover Change…
A Semantic analysis of moving objects, using as a case study maritime voyages from eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
2014
International audience; In this paper, we present a spatial model designed to extract knowledge from the tracks of moving objects. The model uses a perdurantism approach, implemented using Semantic Web technologies. In order to show the capabilities of the model, we employ it to handle a large dataset composed of historic maritime records. By using Semantic Web tools, we are able to implement rules and identify user defined patterns. Although there are limitations due to currently available tools, our results are promising.
Semantics for Spatio-temporal "Smart Queries"
2013
International audience; There is a demand to enhance the meaning of objects and their relationships in the geospatial domain.This need has led to a new fi eld of research called geosemantics, which takes advantage of state of art databases and inference mechanism of ontologies. Current geosemantic proposals involve mixed solutions using spatial databases to store geographic objects and a separate ontology to provide semantic capabilities to the system. However making a simple query involves requesting information from both components which is problematic. In our previous work we proposed a functional standalone based architecture, that uses SWRL to solve spatio-temporal problems.In this pap…
LC3 A Spatial-temporal Data Model to Study Qualified Land Cover Changes
2015
International audience; Land cover changes caused by humans have reached points never witnessed in history before. Consequences of these changes are environmental degradation, pollution of water, biodiversity loss and climate change among others. It is in this frame that the interest of the scientific community for this type of events has increased in the last decades. Nowadays, researchers have access to sophisticated monitoring tools and techniques. However, the new threat is that over abundance of information would hide relevant facts and processes. In our research we use data from the CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) program. This program has compiled land cover i…