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The intentions of this paper are to discuss Coordinated Atomic actions and to demonstrate how they can be used in a very new application area. We apply this concept to designing a particular case of the Gamma computational paradigm, i.e. distributed Gamma computation. Within our approach, each Gamma reaction is an action. We demonstrate how Gamma computation can be effectively implemented in co...

Multi-agent planning involves finding a plan for each agent in a group where the goals, the actions and the initial resources are distributed over these autonomous agents. An algorithm is given for multi-agent planning that constructs coordinated agent plans distributedly. Instead of designing a planning algorithm and a coordination method separately, this algorithm integrates planning and coor...

This paper describes a study of students designing location-based games for each other to learn history. A learning scenario was developed where groups of students create a game, receive and play another group’s game, and create a media product based on their experiences. We analyse the video footage of students collaboratively engaged with designing the games and highlight how the design proce...

There is a general trend in designing distributed control systems to give an increasing amount of autonomy to the individual nodes of such systems. Two interrelated system layers must be considered when autonomous systems have to be coordinated under real-time constraints: distributed programming paradigm and communication layer. We analyze current trends and options, and give an approach for a...

Although, in theory, the underlying systems used to implement CSCW systems are isolated from the interfaces the users see, the difficulty of implementing complex coordinated systems has in the past prevented easy experimentation with different grain-sizes and regimes for coordination. Now, Web 2.0 technologies bring complex, coordinated systems closer to hand and promote social computing into a...

Ontology as a creative tool plays an essential role in acquisition and organization of knowledge and its representation in a special field. The important point is that ontology is usually applied in designing information systems and is useful for providing healthcare in design of health information systems by providing a comprehensive model of information and process needs. This comprehensive r...

The trapdoors programmed into the first DOS-based personal computers still persist today, providing relatively easy access for viruses and worms. By learning how malicious software exploits these weaknesses, security managers can develop a coordinated defense to counteract virus attacks now and in the future. This article describes how MS-DOS startup processes can become exposed to viruses, dis...

The paper presents an initial study on designing a Dynamic Data Driven (DDD) computational environment to enable reliable and efficient determination of Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) for patients with reconstructed ears. The determination involves a synthesis of coordinated experiments and large scale, parallel computer simulations. Time limits (one working day), cost of MRI scans, and...