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International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management eKNOW 2009 February 1-7, 2009 - Cancun, Mexico |
| Tutorials |
T1. Working in Harmony: Integrating the efforts of usability engineers and agile software developers
by
Jason Chong Lee and D. Scott McCrickard
Center for Human-Computer Interaction/Virginia Tech, USA
T2. Decision support for environmental analysis and planning with the EMDS system
by
Keith M Reynolds, US Dept. of Agriculture - Pacific Northwest Research Station/Corvallis, USA
Mark Jensen, US Dept. of Agriculture - Northern Region/Missoula, USA
T3. Geospatial Decision Making in the Semantic Web
by
Patrick Maué and Sven Schade, Institute for Geoinformatics/University of Münster, Germany
Dumitru Roman, Semantics Technology Institute/University of Innsbruck, Austria
DETAILS
T1. Working in Harmony: Integrating the efforts of usability engineers and agile software developers
by
Jason Chong Lee and D. Scott McCrickard
Center for Human-Computer Interaction/Virginia Tech, USA
For people unfamiliar to agile software development, this tutorial will provide a brief introduction to the domain and how it differs from and is complementary to usability engineering methods. The primary focus of the session will be on how usability teams can integrate into agile software development organizations. These methods will use practices drawn from scenario-based usability engineering—an established usability engineering technique and XP and Scrum—two of the most widely practiced agile methods [1][3]. This session will be of most benefit to usability engineers and software development professionals who are interested in developing usable software within an agile development framework.
T2. Decision support for environmental analysis and planning with the EMDS system
by
Keith M Reynolds, US Dept. of Agriculture - Pacific Northwest Research Station/Corvallis, USA
Mark Jensen, US Dept. of Agriculture - Northern Region/Missoula, USA
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system is an application framework for knowledge-based decision support of ecological assessments at any geographic scale. EMDS integrates state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) as well as knowledge-based reasoning and decision modeling technologies in the Microsoft Windows® environment to provide decision support for a substantial portion of the adaptive management process of environmental management. A summary of recent applications of the system published in scientific literature is presented on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMDS .
T3. Geospatial Decision Making in the Semantic Web
by
Patrick Maué and Sven Schade, Institute for Geoinformatics/University of Münster, Germany
Dumitru Roman, Semantics Technology Institute/University of Innsbruck, Austria
The proposed tutorial is based on results and solutions developed within the European funded SWING project [1]. Geospatial decision making with the help of geographic information served via spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) can benefit significantly from Semantic Web technologies. In the context of mining (especially, finding suitable locations for new excavation sites), a sophisticated solution based on various semanticenabled software components has been developed. They realize, for example, the following innovative functionalities: complex reasoning for the discovery of geospatial resources, annotation of geospatial web services using intuitive user interfaces, specification of workflows to create new information from existing web services, and more. The outcome is not only based on the work within the SWING project, though. Most of the presented applications and solutions have been developed over many years in several projects like ACEGIS [2], SODIUM [3], DIP [4], or SUPER[5].
The tutorial is discussing the benefits of the various solutions developed in the projects, and introduces methods how to deploy them into other scenarios.
