A. de Moor (2007). The Pragmatic Evaluation of Tool System Interoperability (invited paper). In Proc. of the 2nd ICCS Conceptual Structures Tool Interoperability Workshop (CS-TIW 2007), Sheffield, UK, July 22, 2007. Research Press International, Bristol, UK, pp.1-19.
Optimizing Social Software Design with Conceptual GraphsCommunitySense
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Collaborative communities are complex and rapidly evolving socio-technical systems. The design of these systems includes the communal specification of communication and information requirements, as well as the selection, configuration, and linking of the software tools that best satisfy these requirements. Supporting the effective and efficient community-driven design of such complex and dynamic systems is not trivial.
To represent and reason about the system design specifications we use conceptual graph theory. We do so because the knowledge representation language of choice must be rich enough to allow the efficient expression of complex definitions. Also, since design specifications derive from complex real world domains and community members themselves are actively involved in specification processes, a close mapping of knowledge definitions to natural language expressions and vice versa is useful. Finally, the representation language must be sufficiently formal and constrained for powerful knowledge operations to
be constructed. Conceptual graph theory has all of these properties.
We explore how conceptual graphs can be used to:
1. model the core elements of such socio-technical systems and their design processes.
2. specify communication and information requirements and match these with social software functionalities.
We illustrate these design processes with examples from a realistic scenario on building a knowledge-driven topic community on climate change.
This is a talk about activity systems analysis and its application for design research. This talk was prepared for students and faculty at Florida State University.
User Control in AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education)Peter Brusilovsky
Ā
Slides of my intro to "Meet the Expert" session at AIED 2021. This is a subset of slides of a longer presentation on user control in AI extended with many specific examples from AIED area.
Optimizing Social Software Design with Conceptual GraphsCommunitySense
Ā
Collaborative communities are complex and rapidly evolving socio-technical systems. The design of these systems includes the communal specification of communication and information requirements, as well as the selection, configuration, and linking of the software tools that best satisfy these requirements. Supporting the effective and efficient community-driven design of such complex and dynamic systems is not trivial.
To represent and reason about the system design specifications we use conceptual graph theory. We do so because the knowledge representation language of choice must be rich enough to allow the efficient expression of complex definitions. Also, since design specifications derive from complex real world domains and community members themselves are actively involved in specification processes, a close mapping of knowledge definitions to natural language expressions and vice versa is useful. Finally, the representation language must be sufficiently formal and constrained for powerful knowledge operations to
be constructed. Conceptual graph theory has all of these properties.
We explore how conceptual graphs can be used to:
1. model the core elements of such socio-technical systems and their design processes.
2. specify communication and information requirements and match these with social software functionalities.
We illustrate these design processes with examples from a realistic scenario on building a knowledge-driven topic community on climate change.
This is a talk about activity systems analysis and its application for design research. This talk was prepared for students and faculty at Florida State University.
User Control in AIED (Artificial Intelligence in Education)Peter Brusilovsky
Ā
Slides of my intro to "Meet the Expert" session at AIED 2021. This is a subset of slides of a longer presentation on user control in AI extended with many specific examples from AIED area.
Agent Assisted Methodologies have become an
important subject of research in advance Software Engineering.
Several methodologies have been proposed as, a theoretical
approach, to facilitate and support the development of complex
distributed systems. An important question when facing the
construction of Agent Applications is deciding which
methodology to follow. Trying to answer this question, a
framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the
comparative analysis of existing multiagent system
methodologies. The results of the comparative over two of them,
conclude that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient
maturity level to be used by the software industry. The
framework has also proved its utility for the evaluation of any
kind of Agent Assisted Software Engineering Methodology.
Two Brains are Better than One: User Control in Adaptive Information AccessPeter Brusilovsky
Ā
In recent years, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies expanded to many areas where they directly affect the lives of many people. AI-based approaches advise human decision-makers who should be released on bail, whether it is a good time to discharge a patient from a hospital and whether a specific student is at risk to fail a course. Such an extensive use in AI in decision making came with a range of protentional problems that have been extensively studied over the last few years. Recognition of these problems motivated a rapid rise of research on āhuman-centered AIā, which attempted to address and minimize the negative effects of using AI technologies. Among the ideas of human-centered AI is user control - engaging users in affecting AI decision making to prevent possible errors and biases. In my talk, I will focus on the application of user control in one popular area of AI application, adaptive information access. Adaptive information access systems such as personalized search and recommender systems attempt to model their users to help them in finding the most relevant information. Yet, user modeling and personalization mechanisms might not always work as expected resulting in errors, biases, and suboptimal behavior. Combining the decision power or AI with the ability of the user to guide and control it brings together the strong sides of artificial and human intelligence and could lead to better results. In my talk, I review several projects focused on user control in adaptive information access systems and discuss the benefits and challenges of this approach.
The Evaluation of Generic Architecture for Information Availability (GAIA) an...inventionjournals
Ā
Along with the growing interest in agent applications, there has been an increasing number of agentoriented software engineering methodologies proposed in recent years. These methodologies were developed and specially tailored to the characteristics of agents. The roles of these methodologies can provide methods, models, techniques, and tools so that the development of agent based system can be carried out in a former and systematic way. The goal of this paper is to understand the relationship between two key agent-oriented methodologies: Gaia, and MaSE. More specially, we evaluate and compare these three methodologies by performing a feature analysis, on them, which is carried out by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each participating methodology using an attribute-based evaluation framework. This evaluation framework addresses some areas of an agent-oriented methodology: concepts, modeling language, process and pragmatics
Considering users' behaviours in improving the responses of an informacion baseinscit2006
Ā
Babajide Afolabi and Odile Thiery
Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Campus Scientifique BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.
This is the presentation of the Juan Cruz-Benitoās PhD āOn data-driven systems analyzing, supporting and enhancing usersā interaction and experienceā that was defended on September 3rd, 2018 in the Faculty of Sciences at University of Salamanca Spain. This PhD was graded with the maximum qualification āSobresaliente Cum Laudeā.
Effects of Developersā Training on User-Developer Interactions in Information...Jennifer McCauley
Ā
The importance of user-developer interactions during the development of an information system has been a long-running theme in information systems research. This research seeks to highlight a gap in the current literature: the contribution of the developerās formal educational background to the relationship between developers and users. Using an interpretivist epistemology, the researchers employed qualitative interviews to examine how far developersā perception of the importance of interacting with the user was influenced by their formal education, or the lack thereof. Interviewing both formally and informally trained developers, eleven categories of interest were identified as pertinent to determining the developersā beliefs about the importance of user interaction. Three of these categories were explored as promising for future research: academic background, work experience, and developerās access to user knowledge. This research has implications for education of information systems developers as well as for industry interested in hiring software developers.
COLLABORA: A COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR EVALUATING INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPAT...ijseajournal
Ā
The execution of collaborative activities enables interaction among its participants, however, the real
problem is to evaluate how much each subject contributed in the development of the activity. The
evaluation process allows to inform important aspects about the individual or the group, such as:
reliability, interdependence, flexibility, commitment, interpersonal relationship, productivity and
management strategies. This work proposes is based in domain based architecture and computer-supported
collaborative learning (CSCL) in order to measure individual and group contributions to the
accomplishment of its activities. The evaluation of the collaboration is made in a semi-automated way
using as criteria measures of collaboration present in the literature like counting the amount of meaningful
and valid words in conversations, which allows to evaluate its commitment. After the activity finalizes, a
collaboration score is given to the participant of the group. The proposed architecture was implemented in
the education domain. In addition to generate a set of exercises to the studied subject, the architecture
helped to provide statistic data related to the collaboration assessment among the peers during the
development of collaborative activities.
A location based movie recommender systemijfcstjournal
Ā
Available recommender systems mostly provide recommendations based on the usersā preferences by
utilizing traditional methods such as collaborative filtering which only relies on the similarities between users and items. However, collaborative filtering might lead to provide poor recommendation because it does not rely on other useful available data such as usersā locations and hence the accuracy of the recommendations could be very low and inefficient. This could be very obvious in the systems that locations would affect usersā preferences highly such as movie recommender systems. In this paper a new locationbased movie recommender system based on the collaborative filtering is introduced for enhancing the
accuracy and the quality of recommendations. In this approach, usersā locations have been utilized and
take in consideration in the entire processing of the recommendations and peer selections. The potential of
the proposed approach in providing novel and better quality recommendations have been discussed through experiments in real datasets.
Agent Assisted Methodologies have become an
important subject of research in advance Software Engineering.
Several methodologies have been proposed as, a theoretical
approach, to facilitate and support the development of complex
distributed systems. An important question when facing the
construction of Agent Applications is deciding which
methodology to follow. Trying to answer this question, a
framework with several criteria is applied in this paper for the
comparative analysis of existing multiagent system
methodologies. The results of the comparative over two of them,
conclude that those methodologies have not reached a sufficient
maturity level to be used by the software industry. The
framework has also proved its utility for the evaluation of any
kind of Agent Assisted Software Engineering Methodology.
Two Brains are Better than One: User Control in Adaptive Information AccessPeter Brusilovsky
Ā
In recent years, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies expanded to many areas where they directly affect the lives of many people. AI-based approaches advise human decision-makers who should be released on bail, whether it is a good time to discharge a patient from a hospital and whether a specific student is at risk to fail a course. Such an extensive use in AI in decision making came with a range of protentional problems that have been extensively studied over the last few years. Recognition of these problems motivated a rapid rise of research on āhuman-centered AIā, which attempted to address and minimize the negative effects of using AI technologies. Among the ideas of human-centered AI is user control - engaging users in affecting AI decision making to prevent possible errors and biases. In my talk, I will focus on the application of user control in one popular area of AI application, adaptive information access. Adaptive information access systems such as personalized search and recommender systems attempt to model their users to help them in finding the most relevant information. Yet, user modeling and personalization mechanisms might not always work as expected resulting in errors, biases, and suboptimal behavior. Combining the decision power or AI with the ability of the user to guide and control it brings together the strong sides of artificial and human intelligence and could lead to better results. In my talk, I review several projects focused on user control in adaptive information access systems and discuss the benefits and challenges of this approach.
The Evaluation of Generic Architecture for Information Availability (GAIA) an...inventionjournals
Ā
Along with the growing interest in agent applications, there has been an increasing number of agentoriented software engineering methodologies proposed in recent years. These methodologies were developed and specially tailored to the characteristics of agents. The roles of these methodologies can provide methods, models, techniques, and tools so that the development of agent based system can be carried out in a former and systematic way. The goal of this paper is to understand the relationship between two key agent-oriented methodologies: Gaia, and MaSE. More specially, we evaluate and compare these three methodologies by performing a feature analysis, on them, which is carried out by evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of each participating methodology using an attribute-based evaluation framework. This evaluation framework addresses some areas of an agent-oriented methodology: concepts, modeling language, process and pragmatics
Considering users' behaviours in improving the responses of an informacion baseinscit2006
Ā
Babajide Afolabi and Odile Thiery
Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) Campus Scientifique BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.
This is the presentation of the Juan Cruz-Benitoās PhD āOn data-driven systems analyzing, supporting and enhancing usersā interaction and experienceā that was defended on September 3rd, 2018 in the Faculty of Sciences at University of Salamanca Spain. This PhD was graded with the maximum qualification āSobresaliente Cum Laudeā.
Effects of Developersā Training on User-Developer Interactions in Information...Jennifer McCauley
Ā
The importance of user-developer interactions during the development of an information system has been a long-running theme in information systems research. This research seeks to highlight a gap in the current literature: the contribution of the developerās formal educational background to the relationship between developers and users. Using an interpretivist epistemology, the researchers employed qualitative interviews to examine how far developersā perception of the importance of interacting with the user was influenced by their formal education, or the lack thereof. Interviewing both formally and informally trained developers, eleven categories of interest were identified as pertinent to determining the developersā beliefs about the importance of user interaction. Three of these categories were explored as promising for future research: academic background, work experience, and developerās access to user knowledge. This research has implications for education of information systems developers as well as for industry interested in hiring software developers.
COLLABORA: A COLLABORATIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR EVALUATING INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPAT...ijseajournal
Ā
The execution of collaborative activities enables interaction among its participants, however, the real
problem is to evaluate how much each subject contributed in the development of the activity. The
evaluation process allows to inform important aspects about the individual or the group, such as:
reliability, interdependence, flexibility, commitment, interpersonal relationship, productivity and
management strategies. This work proposes is based in domain based architecture and computer-supported
collaborative learning (CSCL) in order to measure individual and group contributions to the
accomplishment of its activities. The evaluation of the collaboration is made in a semi-automated way
using as criteria measures of collaboration present in the literature like counting the amount of meaningful
and valid words in conversations, which allows to evaluate its commitment. After the activity finalizes, a
collaboration score is given to the participant of the group. The proposed architecture was implemented in
the education domain. In addition to generate a set of exercises to the studied subject, the architecture
helped to provide statistic data related to the collaboration assessment among the peers during the
development of collaborative activities.
A location based movie recommender systemijfcstjournal
Ā
Available recommender systems mostly provide recommendations based on the usersā preferences by
utilizing traditional methods such as collaborative filtering which only relies on the similarities between users and items. However, collaborative filtering might lead to provide poor recommendation because it does not rely on other useful available data such as usersā locations and hence the accuracy of the recommendations could be very low and inefficient. This could be very obvious in the systems that locations would affect usersā preferences highly such as movie recommender systems. In this paper a new locationbased movie recommender system based on the collaborative filtering is introduced for enhancing the
accuracy and the quality of recommendations. In this approach, usersā locations have been utilized and
take in consideration in the entire processing of the recommendations and peer selections. The potential of
the proposed approach in providing novel and better quality recommendations have been discussed through experiments in real datasets.
Activating Research Collaboratories with Collaboration PatternsCommunitySense
Ā
This presentation explains how collaborative communities require evolving socio-technical systems. Collaboration patterns are important to design these systems and capture lessons learnt. The role of librarians as collaboration pattern stewards and collaborative working system architects is outlined.
Presents an introduction to some basic metrics for usability and some current trends in UX evaluation methods. Includes some indicative examples from UX evaluation studies conducted by the author
Education must capitalize on the trend within technology toward big data. New types of data are becoming available. From evidence approaches to xAPI and the whole Training and Learning Architecture(TLA) big data is the foundation of all.
A Practical Method for Courseware EvaluationCommunitySense
Ā
A. de Moor (2007). A Practical Method for Courseware Evaluation. In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web (PragWeb 2007), Tilburg, the Netherlands, October 22-23, 2007. ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, Vol. 280, pp.57-63.
Analysis of Multiple Pilots for ICT-supported Lifelong Competence Development, Davinia HernƔndez-Leo, davinia.hernandez@upf.edu, TENCompetence Winter School 2009, 1-6 February Innsbruck, Austria
The presentation from the Workshop on Enterprise Interoperability Science Base - Coventry UK - April 2010
To cite this publication, use:
Charalabidis Y., Goncalves R.J., Popplewell K.: āDeveloping a Science Base for Enterprise Interoperabilityā, Interoperability of Enterprise Systems and Applications Conference, i-ESA 2008 (IFIP), 12-15 April 2010, Coventry, UK.
Knowledge Weaving for Social Innovation: Laying the First StrandCommunitySense
Ā
Society consists of a web of interconnected communities. A large body of research and practice exists on how to make communities work. Still, the intersection and interaction of multiple communities - the development and use of their inter-communal commons - is ill-understood. Social innovation is the process in which relevant stakeholders jointly develop solutions to wicked problems that none of them can solve on their own. As such, it is a prime example of the need for multiple stakeholder communities collaborating. We propose a process for building a networked community-commons called knowledge weaving. This is a reflective sensemaking effort in which existing communal knowledge sharing practices, initiatives, and resources are tied together into coherent commons-based knowledge fabrics that support intercommunal collaboration, such as for social innovation. We illustrate the approach with the case of the European Social Innovation Week 2015 pre-events.
Making Community Mapping Work: The Tilburg Urban Farming Community CaseCommunitySense
Ā
This presentation outlines an approach for participatory community mapping, illustrated by the Tilburg urban farming community case. It ends with lessons learnt and a set of key open questions.
Towards a participatory community mapping method: the Tilburg urban farming c...CommunitySense
Ā
Urban farming communities often consist of many disjoint initiatives, while having a strong need to overcome their fragmentation. Community mapping can help urban farmers make better sense of their collaboration. We describe a participatory community mapping approach being piloted in an urban farming community-building project in and around the city of Tilburg. The approach combines (1) a basic community mapping language, (2) a state of the art web-based community visualization tool, and (3) a participatory mapping process to support the community-building efforts. We outline the approach being developed and present initial results of applying it in the Tilburg case.
Knowledge Sharing for Social Innovation: The Dutch Tilburg Regional CaseCommunitySense
Ā
Social innovation as a process is about multiple stakeholders working together on joint, economically and socially sustainable solutions for wicked societal problems. Social innovation both co-creates value for individual stakeholders involved, and contributes to the common good. It has been an important theme in the the Dutch city of Tilburg and the surrounding region of Midden-Brabant for years. A successful regional social innovation ecosystem exists. Knowledge sharing about the innovations remains a bottleneck, however. Two initiatives to increase regional social innovation knowledge sharing capacity are presented: the social innovation storytelling architecture and the Tilburg public library prototype KnowledgeCloud for catalyzing knowledge sharing across regional themes of interest.
Creativity Meets Rationale - Collaboration Patterns for Social InnovationCommunitySense
Ā
Collaborative communities require a wide range of face-to-face and online communication tools. Their socio-technical systems continuously grow, driven by evolving stakeholder requirements and newly available technologies. Designing tool systems that (continue to) match authentic community needs is not trivial. Collaboration patterns can help community members specify customized systems that capture their unique requirements, while reusing lessons learnt by other communnities. Such patterns are an excellent example of combining the strengths of creativity and rationale. In this chapter, we explore the role that collaboration patterns can play in designing the socio-technical infrastructure for collaborative communities. We do so via a cross-case analysis of three Dutch social innovation communities simultaneously being set-up. Our goal with this case study is two-fold: (1) understanding what social innovation is from a socio-technical lens and (2) exploring how the rationale of collaboration patterns can be used to develop creative socio-technical solutions for working communities.
Expanding the Academic Research Community: Building Bridges into Society with...CommunitySense
Ā
Academic research is under threat from issues like a lack of resources, fraud, and societal isolation. Such issues weaken the academic research process, from the framing of research questions to the evaluation of impact. After (re)defining this process, we examine how the academic research community could be expanded using the Internet. We examine two existing science-society collaborations that focus on data collection and analysis and then proceed with a scenario that covers expanding research stages like research question framing, dissemination, and impact assessment.
Presentation for the panel discussion at the 5th AIS SIGPrag International Pragmatic Web Conference Track of I-SEMANTICS, Graz, Austria, Sep 1 2010 http://bit.ly/9U31KO
Collaboration Patterns as Building Blocks for Community InformaticsCommunitySense
Ā
Community Informatics is a wide-ranging field of inquiry and practice, with many paradigms, disciplines, and perspectives intersecting. Community Informatics research and practice build on several methodological pillars: contexts/values, cases, process/methodology, and systems. Socio-technical patterns and pattern languages are the glue that help connect these pillars. Patterns define relatively stable solutions to recurring problems at the right level of abstraction, which means that they are concrete enough to be useful, while also sufficiently abstract to be reusable. The goal of this paper is to outline a practical approach to improve CI research and practice through collaboration patterns. This approach should help to strengthen the analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of socio-technical community systems. The methodology is illustrated with examples from the ESSENCE (E-Science/Sensemaking/Climate Change) community.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Ā
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projectsā efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, youāre 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 āEssentials of Automationā 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.
Hereās what youāll 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.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
Weāll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Donāt miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Ā
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
Ā
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Ā
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.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
Ā
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Ā
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Ā
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
But thereās more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, youāll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the āApproveā button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
Butāif the āRejectā button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. Whatās changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Ā
Clients donāt know what they donāt know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clientsā needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
Ā
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
ā¢ The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
ā¢ Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
ā¢ Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
ā¢ Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Ā
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.