519 research outputs found
Evolutionary dynamics of new media forms: the case of the open mobile web
This thesis is designed to improve our understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of
media forms, with a special historical focus on the recent processes of Web and mobile
convergence and the early development of the cross-platform Web. It aims to investigate
the dynamics that have underpinned the creation, evolution and conventionalisation of
new media forms in the open mobile Web following the launch of 3G mobile networks.
In theoretical terms the thesis explores the possibilities for the analytical
integration of evolutionary approaches that traditionally have shed light on the discrete
components of the evolutionary ‘ensemble’ that comprises media’s textual forms, their
technologies and organisational systems. Among the theoretical pillars the study builds
on is, first, the cultural semiotic approach (Lotman) that is utilised for interpreting the
textual dynamics constituting the form evolution. Second, evolutionary economics
(Schumpeter, Freeman and others) is included for interpreting the market dynamics that
condition the formation of the media industries. Third, systems theoretical sociology
(Luhmann) is deployed in order to understand the broader dynamics of social organisation in late modernism. The integration of these approaches provides the conceptual
framework that focuses on the following phenomena: dialogic interchange among
industry sub-systems as enabling innovations and the emergence of new sub-systems; the
self-organisation of the sub-systems in the contingent environment; the role of memory
and systemic ‘path-dependencies’ in guiding the processes of self-organisation; and the
nature of the power relations that shape the dialogic processes.
The empirical study focuses on textual as well as organisational developments.
The semiotic analysis of mobile websites reveals the intertextual relations of the new
forms with other media domains, especially the desktop Web. The interviews with
representatives of industry stakeholders provide insights into the dialogic practices
between the parties engaged in designing the mobile Web, and how, via these practices,
the new platform, its media forms and institutional structures were shaped. The findings
point to the historical formation of two main industry sub-systems – ‘infrastructure
enablers’ and content providers – with different preferred alternatives for the design of
the cross-platform Web. The thesis demonstrates how the formation of these groups was
conditioned by their systemic path-dependencies, but also by the mesh of dialogic
relationships among them and by the resulting changes in the discursive constellations
framing the organisation of the industry and the norms for its media forms. The study
points to the first signs of the historically momentous emancipation of the mobile Webmedia forms, their shaking free of path-dependency on the desktop Web
IoT-Enabled Social Relationships Meet Artificial Social Intelligence
With the recent advances of the Internet of Things, and the increasing
accessibility of ubiquitous computing resources and mobile devices, the
prevalence of rich media contents, and the ensuing social, economic, and
cultural changes, computing technology and applications have evolved quickly
over the past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating
collaboration and social interactions in general, causing a quick proliferation
of social relationships among IoT entities. The increasing number of these
relationships and their heterogeneous social features have led to computing and
communication bottlenecks that prevent the IoT network from taking advantage of
these relationships to improve the offered services and customize the delivered
content, known as relationship explosion. On the other hand, the quick advances
in artificial intelligence applications in social computing have led to the
emerging of a promising research field known as Artificial Social Intelligence
(ASI) that has the potential to tackle the social relationship explosion
problem. This paper discusses the role of IoT in social relationships detection
and management, the problem of social relationships explosion in IoT and
reviews the proposed solutions using ASI, including social-oriented
machine-learning and deep-learning techniques.Comment: Submitted to IEEE internet of things journa
Building the Future Internet through FIRE
The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly economical, of our lives. Recently, with the advent of new paradigms and the progress in wireless technology, sensor networks and information systems and also the inexorable shift towards everything connected paradigm, first as known as the Internet of Things and lately envisioning into the Internet of Everything, a data-driven society has been created. In a data-driven society, productivity, knowledge, and experience are dependent on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent and complex Internet services. The challenge for the Internet of the Future design is to build robust enabling technologies, implement and deploy adaptive systems, to create business opportunities considering increasing uncertainties and emergent systemic behaviors where humans and machines seamlessly cooperate
Building the Future Internet through FIRE
The Internet as we know it today is the result of a continuous activity for improving network communications, end user services, computational processes and also information technology infrastructures. The Internet has become a critical infrastructure for the human-being by offering complex networking services and end-user applications that all together have transformed all aspects, mainly economical, of our lives. Recently, with the advent of new paradigms and the progress in wireless technology, sensor networks and information systems and also the inexorable shift towards everything connected paradigm, first as known as the Internet of Things and lately envisioning into the Internet of Everything, a data-driven society has been created. In a data-driven society, productivity, knowledge, and experience are dependent on increasingly open, dynamic, interdependent and complex Internet services. The challenge for the Internet of the Future design is to build robust enabling technologies, implement and deploy adaptive systems, to create business opportunities considering increasing uncertainties and emergent systemic behaviors where humans and machines seamlessly cooperate
Internet of Things Applications - From Research and Innovation to Market Deployment
The book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of Internet of Things from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC – Internet of Things European Research Cluster from technology to international cooperation and the global "state of play".The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European research Cluster on the Internet of Things Strategic Research Agenda and presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, development and deployment of IoT at the global level. Internet of Things is creating a revolutionary new paradigm, with opportunities in every industry from Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Computer, Electronics Telecommunications, Automotive, Aeronautics, Transportation Energy and Retail to apply the massive potential of the IoT to achieving real-world solutions. The beneficiaries will include as well semiconductor companies, device and product companies, infrastructure software companies, application software companies, consulting companies, telecommunication and cloud service providers. IoT will create new revenues annually for these stakeholders, and potentially create substantial market share shakeups due to increased technology competition. The IoT will fuel technology innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another while contributing in the increased value of information created by the number of interconnections among things and the transformation of the processed information into knowledge shared into the Internet of Everything. The success of IoT depends strongly on enabling technology development, market acceptance and standardization, which provides interoperability, compatibility, reliability, and effective operations on a global scale. The connected devices are part of ecosystems connecting people, processes, data, and things which are communicating in the cloud using the increased storage and computing power and pushing for standardization of communication and metadata. In this context security, privacy, safety, trust have to be address by the product manufacturers through the life cycle of their products from design to the support processes. The IoT developments address the whole IoT spectrum - from devices at the edge to cloud and datacentres on the backend and everything in between, through ecosystems are created by industry, research and application stakeholders that enable real-world use cases to accelerate the Internet of Things and establish open interoperability standards and common architectures for IoT solutions. Enabling technologies such as nanoelectronics, sensors/actuators, cyber-physical systems, intelligent device management, smart gateways, telematics, smart network infrastructure, cloud computing and software technologies will create new products, new services, new interfaces by creating smart environments and smart spaces with applications ranging from Smart Cities, smart transport, buildings, energy, grid, to smart health and life. Technical topics discussed in the book include: • Introduction• Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda• Internet of Things in the industrial context: Time for deployment.• Integration of heterogeneous smart objects, applications and services• Evolution from device to semantic and business interoperability• Software define and virtualization of network resources• Innovation through interoperability and standardisation when everything is connected anytime at anyplace• Dynamic context-aware scalable and trust-based IoT Security, Privacy framework• Federated Cloud service management and the Internet of Things• Internet of Things Application
Decoupling User Interface Design Using Libraries of Reusable Components
The integration of electronic and mechanical hardware, software and interaction design presents a challenging design space for researchers developing physical user interfaces and interactive artifacts. Currently in the academic research community, physical user interfaces and interactive artifacts are predominantly designed and prototyped either as one-off instances from the ground up, or using functionally rich hardware toolkits and prototyping systems. During this prototyping phase, undertaking an integral design of the interface or interactive artifact’s electronic hardware is frequently constraining due to the tight couplings between the different design realms and the typical need for iterations as the design matures. Several current toolkit designs have consequently embraced component-sharing and component-swapping modular designs with a view to extending flexibility and improving researcher freedom by disentangling and softening the cause-effect couplings. Encouraged by early successes of these toolkits, this research work strives to further enhance these freedoms by pursuing an alternative style and dimension of hardware modularity. Another motivation is our goal to facilitate the design and development of certain classes of interfaces and interactive artifacts for which current electronic design approaches are argued to be restrictively constraining (e.g., relating to scale and complexity). Unfortunately, this goal of a new platform architecture is met with conceptual and technical challenges on the embedded system networking front. In response, this research investigates and extends a growing field of multi-module distributed embedded systems. We identify and characterize a sub-class of these systems, calling them embedded aggregates. We then outline and develop a framework for realizing the embedded aggregate class of systems. Toward this end, this thesis examines several architectures, topologies and communication protocols, making the case for and substantial steps toward the development of a suite of networking protocols and control algorithms to support embedded aggregates. We define a set of protocols, mechanisms and communication packets that collectively form the underlying framework for the aggregates. Following the aggregates design, we develop blades and tiles to support user interface researchers
Machine Learning
Machine Learning can be defined in various ways related to a scientific domain concerned with the design and development of theoretical and implementation tools that allow building systems with some Human Like intelligent behavior. Machine learning addresses more specifically the ability to improve automatically through experience
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