Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227931
Olfa Rejeb, R. Bastide, E. Lamine, F. Marmier, H. Pingaud
Nowadays e-Health systems recognize the benefits of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the delivery of healthcare services. While these modern technologies have enhanced practices in the healthcare sector, the potential of failures to interrupt a process is still important. This risk of system downtime may induce significant impacts on patient safety. Thus, ensuring business resilience has proven to be increasingly challenging as the healthcare field employs more ICT applications and all signs for the future point to even more reliance on digital data. In this context, we propose an approach based on Business Continuity Management (BCM) to ensure the ability to operate in spite of unforeseen events and to quickly recover from any type of business interruption. The basic purpose of this paper is to define a formal description of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP), following an approach grounded in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE).
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Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227945
G. Sissa
ICTs have a direct impact on the environment, consuming energy, materials and producing e-waste. But ICTs are the major enabling technology for mitigation of environmental impacts across all economic sectors. ICT applications and services can help limit energy use and material consumption. In other words ICTs can contribute in achieving more sustainable lifestyles, consumption and production. The full exploitation of ICTs environmental potential benefits needs taking into account the social dimension of ICT as a service, where there is a shift of role from user to co-producer. After a short overview related to the assessment of ICTs service effects on the environment, we will focus on the role that users, consumers or citizens can play in spreading and adopting beneficial behavior. The enabling factor of this active participative role is the collective situational awareness about environmental effects of actions that can counter possible rebound effects and make a green behavior easier. Agent Based Model simulation is the proposed approach to study such individual and collective behavioral changes in using ICT services.
{"title":"An Agent Based approach for sustainable ICT services toward environmental sustainability: The use of Agent Based Models to explain the ICT-driven (societal) behavioural changes and their effects on environmental sustainability","authors":"G. Sissa","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227945","url":null,"abstract":"ICTs have a direct impact on the environment, consuming energy, materials and producing e-waste. But ICTs are the major enabling technology for mitigation of environmental impacts across all economic sectors. ICT applications and services can help limit energy use and material consumption. In other words ICTs can contribute in achieving more sustainable lifestyles, consumption and production. The full exploitation of ICTs environmental potential benefits needs taking into account the social dimension of ICT as a service, where there is a shift of role from user to co-producer. After a short overview related to the assessment of ICTs service effects on the environment, we will focus on the role that users, consumers or citizens can play in spreading and adopting beneficial behavior. The enabling factor of this active participative role is the collective situational awareness about environmental effects of actions that can counter possible rebound effects and make a green behavior easier. Agent Based Model simulation is the proposed approach to study such individual and collective behavioral changes in using ICT services.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129366955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227921
Atiyah Elsheikh, E. Widl, P. Palensky
Rapid physical modelling of complex energy systems is a requirement for coping with rapid changing technologies demanded by this field. The variety of model domains and component types required for describing such complex systems makes the modelling task very challenging. Moreover, while a wide set of advanced tools for modelling highly-specialized tasks and perspectives already exists, a tool that covers all perspectives and components of a complex energy system does not exist. For this purpose, a rather primary but comprehensive evaluation of employing the universal modelling language Modelica in modelling applications of complex energy systems is presented. The advantages of utilizing such an approach is emphasized on an abstract model that is composed of several typical components within a complex energy system.
{"title":"Simulating complex energy systems with Modelica: A primary evaluation","authors":"Atiyah Elsheikh, E. Widl, P. Palensky","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227921","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid physical modelling of complex energy systems is a requirement for coping with rapid changing technologies demanded by this field. The variety of model domains and component types required for describing such complex systems makes the modelling task very challenging. Moreover, while a wide set of advanced tools for modelling highly-specialized tasks and perspectives already exists, a tool that covers all perspectives and components of a complex energy system does not exist. For this purpose, a rather primary but comprehensive evaluation of employing the universal modelling language Modelica in modelling applications of complex energy systems is presented. The advantages of utilizing such an approach is emphasized on an abstract model that is composed of several typical components within a complex energy system.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125988737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227903
Kevin Lee, David Murray, D. Goodfield, M. Anda
Sensor network research is a large and growing area of academic effort, examining technological and deployment issues in the area of environmental monitoring. These technologies are used by environmental engineers and scientists to monitor a multiplicity of environments and services, and, specific to this paper, energy and water supplied to the built environment. Although the technology is developed by Computer Science specialists, the use and deployment is traditionally performed by environmental engineers. This paper examines deployment from the perspectives of environmental engineers and scientists and asks what computer scientists can do to improve the process. The paper uses a case study to demonstrate the agile operation of WSNs within the Cloud Computing infrastructure, and thus the demand-driven, collaboration-intense paradigm of Digital Ecosystems in Complex Environments.
{"title":"Experiences and issues for environmental engineering sensor network deployments","authors":"Kevin Lee, David Murray, D. Goodfield, M. Anda","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227903","url":null,"abstract":"Sensor network research is a large and growing area of academic effort, examining technological and deployment issues in the area of environmental monitoring. These technologies are used by environmental engineers and scientists to monitor a multiplicity of environments and services, and, specific to this paper, energy and water supplied to the built environment. Although the technology is developed by Computer Science specialists, the use and deployment is traditionally performed by environmental engineers. This paper examines deployment from the perspectives of environmental engineers and scientists and asks what computer scientists can do to improve the process. The paper uses a case study to demonstrate the agile operation of WSNs within the Cloud Computing infrastructure, and thus the demand-driven, collaboration-intense paradigm of Digital Ecosystems in Complex Environments.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133976848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227915
Dirk Eisenbiegler, Florian Feigenbutz
This paper describes a testing and benchmarking framework built to support the community of computer scientists. The framework provides features for defining benchmarks, uploading program code and executing test runs on the test infrastructure. For every test run, the framework measures the performance of the execution in terms of execution time, resource consumption and the quality of the data output computed by the tested code. As tests may be defined for many kinds of algorithmic problems the framework could support the scientific community working on Digital Ecosystem Technologies by achieving comparability of multiple algorithmic approaches to existing problems. The community may define its own tests on the framework thereby starting a worldwide online competition for the best algorithms.
{"title":"Schwarzwälder — An online test framework","authors":"Dirk Eisenbiegler, Florian Feigenbutz","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227915","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a testing and benchmarking framework built to support the community of computer scientists. The framework provides features for defining benchmarks, uploading program code and executing test runs on the test infrastructure. For every test run, the framework measures the performance of the execution in terms of execution time, resource consumption and the quality of the data output computed by the tested code. As tests may be defined for many kinds of algorithmic problems the framework could support the scientific community working on Digital Ecosystem Technologies by achieving comparability of multiple algorithmic approaches to existing problems. The community may define its own tests on the framework thereby starting a worldwide online competition for the best algorithms.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131088842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227934
G. M. Ramète, J. Lamothe, M. Lauras, F. Bénaben
During the winter, snowfalls may occur, producing potential problems for traffic management. These road crises might be reduced setting up a collaborative network of heterogeneous actors aiming to solve this critical situation. Because crises deal with a lot of information, an Information Decision Support System might be deployed. Our point of view is to design it through a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). Thus, an unavoidable issue for designing such an IDSS concerns knowledge management. This paper aims at presenting and defining a Metamodel dealing with specific road crisis situations. This is the first result of the French project SIM-PeTra.
{"title":"A road crisis management metamodel for an information decision support system","authors":"G. M. Ramète, J. Lamothe, M. Lauras, F. Bénaben","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227934","url":null,"abstract":"During the winter, snowfalls may occur, producing potential problems for traffic management. These road crises might be reduced setting up a collaborative network of heterogeneous actors aiming to solve this critical situation. Because crises deal with a lot of information, an Information Decision Support System might be deployed. Our point of view is to design it through a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). Thus, an unavoidable issue for designing such an IDSS concerns knowledge management. This paper aims at presenting and defining a Metamodel dealing with specific road crisis situations. This is the first result of the French project SIM-PeTra.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132674517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227925
S. Karnouskos, P. Silva, Dejan Ilić
The smart grid enabled city is an emerging complex system of systems where different stakeholders will have to strive towards achieving their goals while interacting with each-other. At parts of the city such as the districts, the energy signature and efforts towards its better energy efficiency will heavily depend on the utilization of availability and optimal usage of the local resources. The latter may be very dynamic and depend on several complex conditions such as weather, prosumer behavioural patterns, business interactions etc. An emergent city-wide behaviour appears when a number of simple entities i.e. the prosumers, operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours as a collective. In order to empower the smart grid city, several energy services capturing the common needs of all stakeholders need to be made available to them. As a result of a (potentially) common platform that offers basic energy services, rapid development of applications can be realized without the need to start from scratch. Such energy services have been identified, analysed and implemented, in the context of a wider enterprise system architecture. An insight on their functionality, usage and development challenges and experiences is provided.
{"title":"Energy services for the smart grid city","authors":"S. Karnouskos, P. Silva, Dejan Ilić","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227925","url":null,"abstract":"The smart grid enabled city is an emerging complex system of systems where different stakeholders will have to strive towards achieving their goals while interacting with each-other. At parts of the city such as the districts, the energy signature and efforts towards its better energy efficiency will heavily depend on the utilization of availability and optimal usage of the local resources. The latter may be very dynamic and depend on several complex conditions such as weather, prosumer behavioural patterns, business interactions etc. An emergent city-wide behaviour appears when a number of simple entities i.e. the prosumers, operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviours as a collective. In order to empower the smart grid city, several energy services capturing the common needs of all stakeholders need to be made available to them. As a result of a (potentially) common platform that offers basic energy services, rapid development of applications can be realized without the need to start from scratch. Such energy services have been identified, analysed and implemented, in the context of a wider enterprise system architecture. An insight on their functionality, usage and development challenges and experiences is provided.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130598096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227905
N. Sabry, P. Krause
In this paper we will explore a number of approaches to developing digital ecosystems research into addressing some of the key research questions that are emerging in the Cloud Computing domain. The approach of this paper is to build an energy consumption model over the cloud computing. The model is based on mathematical methods for optimizing energy consumption under constraints. We will solve the optimization problem with AMPL/CPLEX [2] tool. The aim of this model is to provide an analytical tool that can be used to explore different aspects of the network in terms of energy-reduction.
{"title":"A digital ecosystem view on cloud computing","authors":"N. Sabry, P. Krause","doi":"10.1109/DEST.2012.6227905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/DEST.2012.6227905","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we will explore a number of approaches to developing digital ecosystems research into addressing some of the key research questions that are emerging in the Cloud Computing domain. The approach of this paper is to build an energy consumption model over the cloud computing. The model is based on mathematical methods for optimizing energy consumption under constraints. We will solve the optimization problem with AMPL/CPLEX [2] tool. The aim of this model is to provide an analytical tool that can be used to explore different aspects of the network in terms of energy-reduction.","PeriodicalId":320291,"journal":{"name":"2012 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114950877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227940
Nurhazman Abdul Aziz, M. Tan
Building a platform for knowledge creation and engagement is a big task for librarians especially when incorporating social or new media. But, with the advent of new tools and open source technology, the librarians at Nanyang Technological University are able to sow the seeds in the library's technology infrastructure. The initiative leads in the construction of a campus wide platform, adopting WordPress architecture to strategically align with its online information service. Subject guides are now able to reinvent the traditional reference services into a new way of seamless outreach and digital engagement. Seeds of engagement are sowed as the project team provides a platform of flexibility and interoperability for content creation.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-18DOI: 10.1109/DEST.2012.6227942
M. Kowalkiewicz
Creative and ad-hoc work often involves non-digital artifacts, such as whiteboards and post-it notes. The preferred method of brainstorming and idea development, while facilitating work among collocated participants, makes it particularly tricky to involve remote participants, not even mentioning cases where live social involvement is required and the number and location of remote participants can be vast. Our work has originally focused on large distributed teams in business entities. Vast majority of teams in large organizations are distributed teams. Our team of corporate researchers decided to identify state of the art technologies that could facilitate the scenarios mentioned above. This paper is an account of a research project in the area of enterprise collaboration, with a strong focus on the aspects of human computer interaction in mixed mode environments, especially in areas of collaboration where computers still play a secondary role. It is describing a currently running corporate research project. In this paper we signal the potential use of the technology in situation, where community involvement is either required or desirable. The goal of the paper is to initiate a discussion on the use of technologies, initially designed as supporting enterprise collaboration, in situation requiring community engagement. In other words, it is a contribution of technically focused research exploring the uses of the technology in areas such as social engagement and community involvement.
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