Coordinating action systems

Coordinating Action Systems

We develop an action systems based approach that supports the separation of design of the functional or computation aspects of a system under construction from the coordination and synchronisation issues. The computation aspects are modelled as nondeterministic actions that work in parallel with the coordination actions, which impose some control on this nondeterministic part. We de ne a specia...

Action-Coordinating Prosody

This paper is an initial exploration of how prosody helps coordinate action, based on examination of speech and motion in a two-player maze game where the players run and jump to avoid obstacles, and coordinate movements to solve problems. We use an unsupervised method, Principal Component Analysis applied to a large set of time-spread features, to discover patterns of behavior involving both p...

Coordinating Open Distributed Systems

Open Distributed Systems are the dominating intellectual issue of the end of this century. Figuring out how to build those systems will become a central issue in distributed system research in the next future. Although CORBA seems to provide all the necessary support to construct those systems. It provides a very limited support to the evolution of requirements in those systems. The main proble...

Coordinating Heterogeneous Information Systems

Coordinating health research to promote action: the Tanzanian experience.

Developing countries carry 90% of the global burden of disease. Infections such as malaria and HIV are debilitating their economies by killing the young and economically productive workforce. Research is essential for health development, yet less than 10% of the annual global expenditure on health research is allocated to addressing developing countries’ problems. Poor countries must face this ...