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Trust between Cooperating Technical Systems

Author : Walter Bamberger

Publisher : tredition

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 33,34 MB

Release : 2014-12-16

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3732309487

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Researchers from social sciences and economics consider trust a requirement for successful cooperation between people. It helps to judge the risk in situations, in which a person has the choice to rely on another one. In the future, technical systems will face similar situations. Assume, for example, self-organised robots, which reload some goods at a large logistics centre together. For this, they will need a mechanism like trust. This book gives the reader tools to understand trust and to introduce a trust mechnism into own applications. The tools include generic requirements for own trust mechanisms and the Enfident Model - a conceptual, implementation-independent model of trust. These theoretical tools are complemented with state-of-the-art algorithms from statistical relational learning. Finally, as an example, all this is applied to cooperating cognitive vehicles. As trust is a social phenomenon, this evaluation features a virtual society of vehicles, which cooperate in a vehicular network. It shows that the postulated requirements and the Enfident Model lead to intuitive and consistent results.







Organic Computing – Technical Systems for Survival in the Real World

Author : Christian Müller-Schloer

Publisher : Birkhäuser

Page : 598 pages

File Size : 22,64 MB

Release : 2017-12-28

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3319684779

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This book is a comprehensive introduction into Organic Computing (OC), presenting systematically the current state-of-the-art in OC. It starts with motivating examples of self-organising, self-adaptive and emergent systems, derives their common characteristics and explains the fundamental ideas for a formal characterisation of such systems. Special emphasis is given to a quantitative treatment of concepts like self-organisation, emergence, autonomy, robustness, and adaptivity. The book shows practical examples of architectures for OC systems and their applications in traffic control, grid computing, sensor networks, robotics, and smart camera systems. The extension of single OC systems into collective systems consisting of social agents based on concepts like trust and reputation is explained. OC makes heavy use of learning and optimisation technologies; a compact overview of these technologies and related approaches to self-organising systems is provided. So far, OC literature has been published with the researcher in mind. Although the existing books have tried to follow a didactical concept, they remain basically collections of scientific papers. A comprehensive and systematic account of the OC ideas, methods, and achievements in the form of a textbook which lends itself to the newcomer in this field has been missing so far. The targeted reader of this book is the master student in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering - or any other newcomer to the field of Organic Computing with some technical or Computer Science background. Readers can seek access to OC ideas from different perspectives: OC can be viewed (1) as a „philosophy“ of adaptive and self-organising - life-like - technical systems, (2) as an approach to a more quantitative and formal understanding of such systems, and finally (3) a construction method for the practitioner who wants to build such systems. In this book, we first try to convey to the reader a feeling of the special character of natural and technical self-organising and adaptive systems through a large number of illustrative examples. Then we discuss quantitative aspects of such forms of organisation, and finally we turn to methods of how to build such systems for practical applications.



Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Cognition and Design

Author : Don Harris

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 479 pages

File Size : 32,41 MB

Release : 2020-07-10

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3030491838

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters included in the 37 HCII 2020 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 6326 submissions. EPCE 2020 includes a total of 60 regular papers; they were organized in topical sections named: mental workload and performance; human physiology, human energy and cognition; cognition and design of complex and safety critical systems; human factors in human autonomy teaming and intelligent systems; cognitive psychology in aviation and automotive. As a result of the Danish Government's announcement, dated April 21, 2020, to ban all large events (above 500 participants) until September 1, 2020, the HCII 2020 conference was held virtually.



Social Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work

Author : Geoffrey Bowker

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 495 pages

File Size : 18,22 MB

Release : 2014-05-12

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1317778766

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This book is the first to directly address the question of how to bridge what has been termed the "great divide" between the approaches of systems developers and those of social scientists to computer supported cooperative work--a question that has been vigorously debated in the systems development literature. Traditionally, developers have been trained in formal methods and oriented to engineering and formal theoretical problems; many social scientists in the CSCW field come from humanistic traditions in which results are reported in a narrative mode. In spite of their differences in style, the two groups have been cooperating more and more in the last decade, as the "people problems" associated with computing become increasingly evident to everyone. The authors have been encouraged to examine, rigorously and in depth, the theoretical basis of CSCW. With contributions from field leaders in the United Kingdom, France, Scandinavia, Mexico, and the United States, this volume offers an exciting overview of the cutting edge of research and theory. It constitutes a solid foundation for the rapidly coalescing field of social informatics. Divided into three parts, this volume covers social theory, design theory, and the sociotechnical system with respect to CSCW. The first set of chapters looks at ways of rethinking basic social categories with the development of distributed collaborative computing technology--concepts of the group, technology, information, user, and text. The next section concentrates more on the lessons that can be learned at the design stage given that one wants to build a CSCW system incorporating these insights--what kind of work does one need to do and how is understanding of design affected? The final part looks at the integration of social and technical in the operation of working sociotechnical systems. Collectively the contributors make the argument that the social and technical are irremediably linked in practice and so the "great divide" not only should be a thing of the past, it should never have existed in the first place.



Web-Based Education and Pedagogical Technologies: Solutions for Learning Applications

Author : Esnault, Liliane

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 364 pages

File Size : 11,23 MB

Release : 2007-11-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1599045273

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The rapid development and expansion of Web-based technologies has vast potential implications for the processes of teaching and learning world-wide. Technological advancements of Web-based applications strike at the base of the education spectrum; however, the scope of experimentation and discussion on this topic has continuously been narrow. Web-Based Education and Pedagogical Technologies: Solutions for Learning Applications provides cutting-edge research on such topics as network learning, e-learning, managing Web-based learning and teaching technologies, and building Web-based learning communities. This innovative book provides researchers, practitioners, and decision makers in the field of education with essential, up-to-date research in designing more effective learning systems and scenarios using Web-based technologies.



Simulation Gaming Through Times and Disciplines

Author : Marcin Wardaszko

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 469 pages

File Size : 37,63 MB

Release : 2021-03-26

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3030721329

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 50th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2019, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, during August 26–30, 2019.The 38 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: simulation gaming in the science space; simulation gaming design and implementation; simulation games for current challenges; simulation games and gamification; and board perspective on simulation gaming.



Trust and New Technologies

Author : T. Kautonen

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 33,89 MB

Release : 2008-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1848445083

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For scholars interested in how social concepts such as trust impact on new technologies, this is undoubtedly a valuable contribution. Ian Grant, Telecommunications Policy . . . the editors have managed to provide a comprehensive overview of current conceptual and empirical research on trust-related issues from multiple perspectives. . . Trust and New Technologies is an enlightening collection of research papers on trust. The book should be of interest to scholars, practitioners and researchers focusing on the applications of new technologies in marketing and business management. Since trust also is a key concept in information behaviour studies, researchers interested in this field will also find this book a useful resource. Madely du Perez, Australian Library Journal This book is a timely collection of research papers on one of the most critical subjects on the internet. It explores a wide range of trust related issues from multiple perspectives, and by researchers from around Europe and America. The papers address the different roles that trust plays in consumer marketing in online environments, in mobile media, and in organizational relations. The issues highlighted are relevant to both academics and practitioners. Feng Li, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Trust and New Technologies presents versatile new research that illustrates the different roles that trust plays in the marketing and management of new technologies. The authors provide a comprehensive and much needed overview of the current state of conceptual and empirical research in the topical area of trust and new technologies. Comprising of sixteen chapters, the book is divided thematically into three sections: consumer trust in online environments trust and mobile media new technologies and trust within and between organizations. This enlightening book will be of great interest to scholars, practitioners and research students focusing on the applications of new technologies in marketing and management. Trust researchers across business disciplines and the social sciences will also find this timely and unique book a constructive resource.



The Diplomatic Making of EU-China Relations

Author : Lucie Qian Xia

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 207 pages

File Size : 48,84 MB

Release : 2024-04-11

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1003820964

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This book provides a novel theoretical framework to understand EU-China diplomatic relations. The existing scholarly literature on EU-China relations is characterised by a dichotomous distinction between material and ideational factors and overemphasises the ‘interest versus value’ motif undergirding EU-China relations. The diplomacy and future direction of the relationship seem as opaque as their extent remains incalculably complex. This book takes us beyond binary motives by introducing a novel theoretical model of diplomatic relationship-building that brings to the fore the more nuanced and latent factors to make sense of EU-China diplomatic relationship-building; the new theory captures the ‘relational’ nature of diplomatic relationship-building by integrating the social layer of ‘intentions’ in understanding international diplomacy. This study further sheds light on the opportunities and challenges in enhancing EU-China relations, through a comparative in-depth investigation of the processes, practices and politics of EU-China climate change and agricultural-trade relations over the past two decades. The book draws on a rich collection of original data, encompassing over 100 interviews with stakeholders of EU-China relations conducted from 2015–2023; strengthened by participant observation at EU and Chinese institutional headquarters and in diplomatic fora that has taken place over the past ten years. Enriching these data are newly disclosed official minutes and documentation regarding EU-China negotiations and cooperation. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, Chinese politics, EU politics and international relations in general.