This whitepaper we vision of a new group collaboration infrastructure, the Social Semantic Desktop, drawing from co-evolving research in the Semantic Web, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks, and Online Social Networking. The Social Semantic Desktop is a novel collaboration environment, enabling the creation, sharing and deployment of data and metadata.

Research on the desktop search has been constrained by the lack of reusable test collections. This led to a high entry barrier for new researchers and difficulty in the comparative evaluation of existing methods. To address this point, we introduce a method for creating reusable pseudo-desktop collections by gathering documents and generating queries that have similar characteristics to actual ...

In the management world, the web is considered by many people the best user interface for next generation management systems. This is because the use of the web has several benefits with respect to non web-based management applications such as: • Web browsers are provided with almost every OS. • Hypertext facilities can be profitably used for on-line help and documentation. • Web pages can inte...

DeepaMehta is an open source semantic desktop application based on the topic maps standard. It’s conceptualisation and especially the innovative graph-based user interface have been guided by findings in cognitive psychology in order to provide a cognitively adequate working environment for knowledge workers of all kind. DeepaMehta aims to evolve nowadays’ separated desktop applications into an...

We present an overview of the free GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME). GNOME is a suite of X11 GUI applications that provides joy to users and hackers alike. It has been designed for extensibility and automation by using CORBA and scripting languages throughout the code. GNOME is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL and the GNU LGPL and has been developed on the Internet by a loose...

User interfaces in Grid computing have tended to follow either a command-line or a portalbased approach. Command-line interfaces, such as provided by the Globus ToolkitTM, are flexible and powerful, but arcane. Portals deliver their functionality either through Web browsers, or through bespoke, stand-alone “fat clients”; they present friendlier interfaces to a restricted set of services. Despit...

Scanners have been used as input devices in photogrammetric and cartographic applications mainly for digitisation of aerial images and maps. This paper deals with the use and applicability of DeskTop Publishing (DTP) scanners for photogrammetric/ cartographic applications. The motivation of the paper is the investigation as to what extent low-priced DTP scanners, which are rapidly improving dur...

This paper describes our recent progress in Desktop Robotics. It begins with a description of the application domain, and then describes progress in a few areas: a mobile manipulator called the mobipulator, fast prototyping work culminating in the Palm Pilot Robot Kit, and work on time-optimal paths for diff drive robots.