A method for the dynamic generation of virtual versions of evolving documents

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale./http://portal.acm.org/International audienceDocument evolution is usually performed by creating a new document which explicitly details changes to specific paragraphs inside other documents content. Obtaining (virtual) document versions corresponding to its tsate at a specific date is left to the document users, who manually extract fromlibrary collections, and compose, the pieces of text to obtain teh desired version. But this can be a very tedious and difficult task when changes are numerous. We propose a solution to dynamically generate virtual document versions on user demand, respecting the library documents integrity.REFernecs to other documents and modification relationships can be automatically detected and are modelled as typed links ( XLink) in a relationship graph. In this paper, we focus on the version generation process,consisting in a dynamic document composition based on a graph exploration. This solution has already shown its adequacy with a legislative digital library

Software Agents : Process Models and User Profiles in Distributed Software Development

The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an increasing mobility and a very flexible organizational structure. Process methodology and technology have to take such evolutions into account. A possible direction for the emergence of new process technology and methodology is to take benefit from recent advances within multiagent systems engineering : innovative methodologies for adaptable and autonomous architectures; they exhibit interesting features to support distributed software processes

Software Agents : Process Models and User Profiles in Distributed Software Development

The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an increasing mobility and a very flexible organizational structure. Process methodology and technology have to take such evolutions into account. A possible direction for the emergence of new process technology and methodology is to take benefit from recent advances within multiagent systems engineering : innovative methodologies for adaptable and autonomous architectures; they exhibit interesting features to support distributed software processes

An Architecture for a Multi Criteria Exploration of a Documents Set

Colloque avec actes et comité de lecture. internationale./http://www.springerlink.com/International audienceThis paper presents an architecture suitable for the exploration of multicriteria documents. During the exploration session, the user gradually builds a portfiolio of relevant documents using semantics views

Towards Process Components Mobility in Federated PSEEs

Rapport de contrat.Actual process modeling formalisms allow more or less modularity, reusability and interoperability. One can thus easily imagine that process models components become mobile on a network of Process Sensitive Engineering Environments (PSEEs). Our work in this paper relies on a Workflow like process model, enriched with a precise performance model and the notion of rights to capture some facets of the actors' responsibilities in a process. To involve participants of federated process environment in a joint project, by task delegation, these tasks must be modeled in mobile process components form. The notion of process component is introduced as well as component mobility mechanisms and policies in the context of federated PSEEs. When an autonomous PSEE working in autonomy imports a process component, it can re-use the process in its own way. Additional problems arise when the same component must be imported within the collaboration framework involving several PSEEs in a joint federated project. In this case, especially when a task is to be delegated to other sites, collaboration has to be maintained between importer and exporter during the component performance. For that the recipient must have the competence to perform it, and sometimes negotiation is necessary between the exporter and importer. We propose a suitable formalism for mobility policies for process components delegation and building blocks to support these policies

Principes d'exploitation dynamique des relations inter-documents dans les bibliothèques électroniques (application au domaine juridique)

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L'expression du problème dans la recherche d'informations (application à un contexte d'intermédiation territoriale)

L'Intelligence Territoriale est un concept récemment apparu en France. Nous l'avons identifié comme la conjugaison d'actions d'Intelligence Economique et de Knowledge Management appliquées à un territoire. L'Intermédiation Territoriale en est une forme particulière, qui s'appuie sur la notion de médiation et l'utilisation d'intermédiaire(s) humain(s). Nous avons participé à la mise en place d'un tel dispositif, dans lequel les intermédiaires humains sont notamment chargés de résoudre des problèmes informationnels pour des tiers. Nos travaux ont cherché à améliorer l'efficacité de ces personnels pour répondre aux Problèmes de Recherche d'Informations (PRI) qui leur sont posés. Dans ce but, nous avons puisé notre inspiration dans les domaines de la Communication Humaine, de la Représentation des Connaissances et de la Résolution des Problèmes. Nous en avons déduit une solution en quatre parties : (1) des Principes de bonne formulation d'un énoncé de PRI, (2) un Modèle d'aide à la génération d'un questionnement sur un PRI, (3) un Outil d'aide à la représentation de l'interprétation d'un sujet de PRI, (4) une Pertinence informationnelle orientée vers la demande.Territorial Intelligence is a relatively recent concept in France. We identified it, as conjugation of Economic Intelligence and Knowledge Management actions applied to a territory. Territorial Intermediation is a particular form of it, which is based on the notion of mediation and use of human intermediary(ies). We participated in the setting of a kind of these systems, in it the human intermediaries are notably in charged with informational problem resolution for others. Our works searched to improve the efficiency of these individuals to resolve the Informational Retrieval Problem (IRP), which they are asked. In this goal, we got our inspiration from Human Communication, Knowledge Representation and Problem Resolution domains. We deduced from that a four folds solution : (1) a good expression Principles, (2) an IRP questioning Model, (3) a translation Tool for subject interpretation, (4) a Relevance of information oriented to IRP expression.NANCY2-BU Lettres (543952103) / SudocNANCY-INRIA Lorraine LORIA (545472304) / SudocSudocFranceF

Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology

Ouvrage (auteur).Software process technology is an emerging and strategic area that has already reached a reasonable degree of maturity, delivering products and significant industrial experiences. This technology aims at supporting the software production process by providing the means to model, analyse, improve, measure, and whenever it is reasonable and convenient, to automate software production activities. In recent years, this technology has proved to be effective in the support of many business activities not directly related to software production, but relying heavily on the concept of process (i.e. all the applications traditionally associated with workflow management). This book concentrates on the core technology of software processes, its principles and concepts as well as the technical aspect of software process support. The contributions to this book are the collective work of the Promoter 2 European Working Group. This grouping of 13 academic and 3 industrial partners is the successor of Promoter, a working group responsible for creating a European software process community. Promoter 2 aims at exploiting this emerging community to collectively develop remaining open issues, to coordinate activities and to assist in the dissemination of results. The title “Software Process Modelling and Technology” [Fink94] was produced during Promoter 1. Being “project based”, it presented the main findings and proposals of the different projects then being undertaken by the partners. The present book is more ambitious for two reasons: it is “principles oriented” and it is intended to reflect our common understanding of the key concepts. In order to produce it, we have adopted, from the beginning, an explicit “book writing” process and we have also described it with one of the available formalisms. This is used as an example in Appendix C to illustrate the discourse and to defend the thesis that software process technology can be exploited in other related domains. Each chapter has specific editors and contributors, and contributions have been discussed and amended before being integrated. The global editing has been decomposed into two facets, with the syntactic and semantic editing undertaken by Ali Kaba and myself, and a complete revision to transform our “Esprit English” into one more correct, with thanks to the IPG at Manchester for their enormous contribution