To assess current situation properly is crucial for effective decision-making in crisis management. However, gathering accurate information from incidence sites and providing appropriate support for assessment practices faces several challenges. The unique information demands of each crisis situation, the information availability or inter-organizational problems and obstacles to information exchange are important factors that need to be considered in designing ICT. In this contribution we present results from an empirical study about decision- making practices in scenarios of medium to large power outages in Germany. We focused on the needs and practices on information exchange at the level of inter-organizational cooperation. We examined the cooperation of fire departments, police, public administration, electricity infrastructure operators and citizens. Our empirical material reflects particularly conditions and challenges in current situation assessment practices, and we were able to derive design requirements for an inter-organizational situation assessment client as a complementary tool for existing crisis management infrastructures.
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The plethora of talks and presentations taking place at academic conferences makes it difficult, especially for young researchers to attend the
right talks or discuss with participants and potential collaborators with similar interests. Participants may not have a priori knowledge that allows
them to select the right talks or informal interactions with other participants. In this paper we present the context-aware mobile
recommendation services (CAMRS) based on the current context (whereabouts at the venue, popularity and activities of talks and presentations)
sensed at the conference venue. Additionally, we augment the current context with the academic community context of conference participants
which is inferred by using social network analysis and link prediction on large-scale co-authorship and citation networks of participants. By
combining the dynamic and social context of participants, we are able to recommend talks and people that may be interesting to a particular
participant. We evaluated CAMRS using data from two large digital libraries - the DBLP and CiteSeerX, and participants from two conferences -
ICWL 2010 and EC-TEL 2011. The result shows that the new approach can recommend novel talks and helps participants in establishing new
connections at conference venue.
Enhancing Academic Event Participation with Context-aware and Social Recommen...Dejan Kovachev
The plethora of talks and presentations taking place at academic conferences makes it difficult, especially for young researchers to attend the
right talks or discuss with participants and potential collaborators with similar interests. Participants may not have a priori knowledge that allows
them to select the right talks or informal interactions with other participants. In this paper we present the context-aware mobile
recommendation services (CAMRS) based on the current context (whereabouts at the venue, popularity and activities of talks and presentations)
sensed at the conference venue. Additionally, we augment the current context with the academic community context of conference participants
which is inferred by using social network analysis and link prediction on large-scale co-authorship and citation networks of participants. By
combining the dynamic and social context of participants, we are able to recommend talks and people that may be interesting to a particular
participant. We evaluated CAMRS using data from two large digital libraries - the DBLP and CiteSeerX, and participants from two conferences -
ICWL 2010 and EC-TEL 2011. The result shows that the new approach can recommend novel talks and helps participants in establishing new
connections at conference venue.
Presentation Title: Grand Challenges and Big Data: Implications for Public Participation in Scientific Research
Presenter: William Michener, Professor and PI/Director of DataONE, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologieslisbk
Slides for a talk on "Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies" to be given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the IWMW 2012 event to be held in Edinburgh on 18-20 June 2012.
See http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2012/sessions/jisc-observatory/
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44CON 2014 - Security Analytics Beyond Cyber, Phil Huggins44CON
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Presentation Title: Grand Challenges and Big Data: Implications for Public Participation in Scientific Research
Presenter: William Michener, Professor and PI/Director of DataONE, University Libraries, University of New Mexico
Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologieslisbk
Slides for a talk on "Identifying and Responding to Emerging Technologies" to be given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the IWMW 2012 event to be held in Edinburgh on 18-20 June 2012.
See http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2012/sessions/jisc-observatory/
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Slides of the keynote presentation at the 5th International IEEE/ACM Symposium on Software Visualization, SoftVis 2010. Salt Lake City, USA, October 2010.
44CON 2014 - Security Analytics Beyond Cyber, Phil Huggins44CON
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A quick summary of the current state of big data technology and data science approaches used in cyber / network defender security analytics including summary use cases, a walk through of a reference architecture and breakdown of the required skills. Focus is on the knowledge needed to run a proof of concept and establish a programme for early benefits. Will then also include a view on the future of extending the platforms and capabilities of security analytics to cover performance metrics and data-driven security management approaches.
Towards the Intelligent Internet of EverythingRECAP Project
In this presentation, Prof. Theo Lynn (DCU) was talking about observations on Multi-disciplinary Challenges in Intelligent Systems Research, at the RECAP consortium meeting in Dublin, Ireland on 06 November 2018.
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This webinar will review critical components of proper incident assessment and management including:
- Assessing events for severity and potential impact including triage
- Engaging the appropriate team members across the organization
- Choosing the optimal containment strategy for your business
Our featured speakers for this webinar will be:
- Stephen Brennan, Global Technical Consulting Lead - Managing Partner, CSC
- Ted Julian, Chief Marketing Officer, Co3 Systems
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Lowenthal (2012) suggests a couple of reasons for why this might be:
· First, intelligence consumers keep the intelligence community busy. Intelligence analysts and their managers rarely feel they have time to withdraw from their day-to-day work to assess the effectiveness of that work. We have already mentioned several times how analysts working in fast-paced, tactical environments are often hard-pressed managing their time to produce intelligence products, as it is, leaving little to no opportunity to learn from one’s mistakes or successes.
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In criminal intelligence analysis, we already often deal with cases in our everyday lives that have specific starting points and specific ending points concluding with a specific product – hopefully a conviction in our case. Despite their resemblances, it would be fair to say that no two cases are exactly alike, which means every case results in ‘a unique product, service, or result’. When we think of cases as the result of finished projects, then we might think of criminal intelligence analysis – in so far as it contributes to cases – as projects themselves.
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The Columbian Exchange is a term used to capture what happened to North American Native Indians when the arrival of European settlers introduced ideas, animals, plants, and diseases that otherwise they had not yet been exposed to. Today, the Modern Columbian Exchange is occurring at a global scale, caused by unprecedented global travel and the Internet. An outcome of this Modern Columbian Exchange is disease outbreaks which have and will continue to affect dozens of countries in a very short time, impacting agriculture, tourism, and ultimately resulting in social tensions and the loss of life. The global response requires tight and timely coordination across countries. This necessitates the processing of large volumes of data – “BIG DATA” – which implies variety, variability and velocity. In this presentation, we explore the challenges of BIG DATA for preventative global health care. We answer the questions: a) how can human intelligence be more effectively leveraged to develop new insights, and b) how does this impact the design of data and information repositories? We conclude “The Time is NOW” for a new real-time analytics paradigm to transform the discovery and learning process.
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
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In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
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And...
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Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Knowledge engineering: from people to machines and back
Supporting Inter-Organizational Situation Assessment in Crisis Management
1. University
of
Siegen
Ins0tute
for
Informa0on
Systems
CSCW
in
Organiza9ons/Coopera9on
Systems
ISCRAM
2012,
Vancouver,
April
23,
2012
SUPPORTING
INTER-‐ORGANIZATIONAL
SITUATION
ASSESSMENT
IN
CRISIS
MANAGEMENT
Benedikt
Ley,
Volkmar
Pipek,
Chris9an
Reuter,
Torben
Wiedenhoefer
Source: www.lz-altstadt.de
2. Agenda
• Research
Field
• Methodology
• Research
Focus
• Empirical
Findings
• Challenges
in
current
Collabora9ve
Situa9on
Assessment
Prac9ces
• Features
for
poten9al
IT-‐Support
1
3. Research
Field
Project:
InfoStrom
Learning
Informa0on
Infrastructures
for
Crisis
Management
in
Medium
to
Large
Electrical
Power
Breakdowns
Goal:
Development
of
a
“Security
Arena”,
to
support
inter-‐organiza9onal
communica9on,
coordina9on
and
learning.
2
4. Methodology
Grounded
Theory
Oriented
Approach
(Strauss
1987)
User-‐Centered
Design-‐Approach
Empirical
Study
Development
Evalua9on
of
IT
3
5. Methodology
Empirical
Study
•
Document
analysis
•
Observa9ons
(n=4)
•
Group
discussions
(n=5)
•
Development
of
a
scenario
•
Interviews
(n=22)
Evalua9on
Development
of
IT
4
6. Research
Focus
• Examina9on
of
current
situa9on
assessment
prac9ces
of
professional
actors,
involved
in
situa9on
assessment
in
scenarios
of
medium
to
large
power
outages
• Focus
on
inter-‐organiza9onal
level
• Deriving
requirements
for
poten9al
IT-‐
support
of
collabora9ve
situa9on
assessment
using
digital
situa9on
Source: www.wikipedia.org
maps
5
7. Empirical
Findings
I
Improvisa0on
prac0ces
in
current
crisis
management
work
“Improvisa*on
is
essen*al,
next
to
extensive
planning.
You
can
have
the
best
predefined
response
plans,
but
there
is
always
a
situa*on,
where
you
have
to
improvise.”
(Regulatory
Authority,
Administra9on)
“No,
all
workflows
are
flexible.
This
is
necessary,
because
each
situa*on
is
different.”
(Head
of
Control
Center,
Police)
6
8. Empirical
Findings
II
Characteris0c
of
Situa0on
Assessment
Prac0ces
Individual
Work
Prac9ces:
Actors
individually
collect
supplementary
informa9on
from
various
sources
in
order
to
obtain
appropriate
overview
of
the
situa9on
Lack
of
Informa9on:
“The
other
actors
have
a
different
percep*on
because
–
they
concentrate
on
their
problems
and
not
on
providing
informa*on”
(Head
of
Control
Center,
Police)
Terminological
Differences:
"Even
if
the
police
are
talking
to
the
fire
department,
there
is
a
big
devia*on
in
the
terminology
and
consequently
terms
are
perceived
differently.”
(Head
of
Control
Center,
Police)
7
9. Empirical
Findings
III
Condi0ons
of
Situa0on
Assessment
Prac0ces
Use
of
official
systems
and
non-‐digital
maps:
In
major
catastrophic
events
internal
informa9on
resources
are
enriched
by
many
external,
informal
informa9on
resources.
“40
windows
which
have
to
be
observed”
of
different
applica9ons
and
websites
(District
Fire
Chief,
Fire
Department)
Privacy:
“Maps
got
nothing
to
do
with
anyone
else
but
us,
because
we
do
not
reproduce
the
current
state
but
rather
try
to
imagine
what
will
happen
next“
(Chief
Officer,
Fire
Department)
Collabora9ve
Situa9on
Assessment:
“We
all
have
to
get
the
big
picture
of
the
scene
at
first.
Than
we
have
to
coordinate
ourselves:
finding
appropriate
ways
of
solving
the
problem
together
and
then
running
these
ac9ons”
(Patrol
Duty,
Police)
8
10. Summary
1. Informa9on
is
mostly
distributed
(weather
services,
electricity
providers,
logis9c
companies,
etc.)
2. Missing
awareness
about
informa9on
available
(meta-‐informa9on
about
suitable
and
available
data
at
external
organiza9ons)
3. Accessibility
of
Informa9on/Policy
Issues
(9me-‐consuming
or
even
not
a
possible
)
4. Handling
of
informa9on
uncertain9es
(shortcomings
in
accurate
visual
depic9ons
of
cri9cal
data
sets
from
different
domains)
5. Terminology
issues
(different
symbols
on
situa9on
maps
or
different
technical
terms)
6. Perceiving
interdependencies
between
informa9on
(certain
informa9on
resources
are
possibly
only
relevant
in
conjunc9on
with
others)
9
11. Features
Aggrega9on
and
visualisa9on
of
external
and
various
Informa9on
Individualiza9on
of
informa9on
composi9ons
ß
Water
Protec9on
Area
Suppor9ng
collabora9ve
situa9on
Police
Department
à
assessement
Accessability
of
Weather
Informa9onà
informa9on
ressources
1 0
12. Features
Aggrega9on
and
visualisa9on
of
external
and
various
Informa9on
Individualiza9on
of
informa9on
composi9ons
ß Hide/Show
Informa9on
Ressources
Suppor9ng
ß Add/Delete
various
collabora9ve
situa9on
Informa9on
Ressources
assessement
Accessability
of
informa9on
ressources
1 1
13. Features
Aggrega9on
and
visualisa9on
of
external
and
various
Informa9on
Individualiza9on
of
informa9on
composi9ons
Suppor9ng
collabora9ve
situa9on
assessement
Accessability
of
informa9on
ressources
1 2
14. Features
Aggrega9on
and
visualisa9on
of
external
ß Access
Control
and
various
Informa9on
+
Informa9on
Repository
Individualiza9on
of
informa9on
composi9ons
Suppor9ng
collabora9ve
situa9on
assessement
Accessability
of
informa9on
ressources
1 3
15. University
of
Siegen
Ins0tute
for
Informa0on
Systems
CSCW
in
Organiza9ons/Coopera9on
Systems
ISCRAM
2012,
Vancouver,
April
23,
2012
THANK
YOU
FOR
YOUR
ATTENTION!
DISCUSSION
Torben
Wiedenhoefer,
Benedikt
Ley,
Chris9an
Reuter,
Volkmar
Pipek
University
of
Siegen,
Germany
CSCW
in
Organiza9ons/Coopera9on
Systems
{torben.wiedenhoefer;
benedikt.ley;
chris9an.reuter;
volkmar.pipek}@uni-‐siegen.de
hrp://www.cscw.uni-‐siegen.de