Summary and Outlook. In this paper we have outlined a framework that provides a novel way for agents, who use different ontologies, to come to agreement on an alignment. This is achieved us- ing an argumentation process in which candidate correspondences are accepted or re- jected, based on the ontological knowledge and the agent’s preferences. Argumentation is based on the exchange of arguments, against or in favour of a correspondence, that interact with each other using an attack relation. Each argument instantiates an argu- mentation schema, and utilises domain knowledge, extracted from extensional and in- tensional ontology definitions. When the full set of arguments and counter-arguments has been produced, the agents consider which of them should be accepted. As we have seen, the acceptability of an argument depends on the ranking - represented by a par- ticular preference ordering on the type of arguments. Our approach is able to give a formal motivation for the selection of a correspondence, and enables consideration of an agent’s interests and preferences that may influence the selection of a correspon- dence. We believe that this approach will aim at reaching more sound and effective mutual understanding and communicative work in agents system. In the current state of the implementation, the ontology alignments is provided man- ually. The next step is to extend the developed prototype to utilize an ontology align- ment services in oder to obtain the alignment automatically. An empirical evaluation is planned. Moreover, in future work we intend to investigate the use of a negotiation process to enable agents to reach an agreement on a mapping when they differ in their ordering of argument types. Another interesting topic for future work would be to inves- tigate how to argue about the whole alignments, and not only the individual candidate mapping. These arguments could occur when a global similarity measure between the whole ontologies is applied. Acknowledgements The research has been partially supported by Knowledge Web (FP6- IST 2004-507482) and PIPS (FP6-IST 2004-507019). Special thanks to Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx and Xxx Xxxxxx. References
Summary and Outlook. This deliverable presents the status of the traceability and model manage- ment efforts in INTO-CPS at the end of year 2. In summary, an architecture for traceability was presented, which allows the connected tools to send data to a central repository (i.e. the database). A daemon was created that re- ceives this data and stores it. A format for the messages, containing the traceability data, was also defined. For year 3, the focus of the work will be on the completion of the tool integra- tion and on the data retrieval, i.e. the visualisation and presentation of the traceability data. Only then will the benefits of traceability become evident to the users. Therefore, the development efforts will be closely coupled to evaluation of the user’s needs, primarily coming from the four case studies in Work Package 1 of INTO-CPS. Appendices A Used libraries The table 2 below lists all the libraries that are used for the traceability daemon. Its purpose is to illustrate any potential licensing / open-source issues that might arise from conflicting licenses. Library Comment License typescript Microsofts TypeScript, a super set to JavaScript, is used to ensure type-safeness during development and to benefit from its integration with the Visual Studio Code IDE. Apache node-js restify / The restify library supports the definition of a RESTful web server in node.js. (Interface for the clients) MIT node-js bluebird / The bluebird library is used to syncronize parts of program execution while retaining source code readability (escaping callback hell). MIT node-js neo4j / The neo4j library offers an interface to the neo4j database server. Apache 2.0 node-js xml2js / The xml2js library is a xml document parser for node.js we use to parse rdf/xml messages. MIT Neo4J Graph DB The neo4j graph database (community edi- tion) is used to store the traceability infor- mation. GPL / com- mercial Elektron Elektron is the framework for the INTO-CPS application MIT Table 2: Libraries used for the traceability daemon It should be noted that the Neo4J Graph database offers two licenses: the GPL for the community edition, and a commercial license for the enterprise edition. For more information, see xxxxx://xxx0x.xxx/licensing/ B Abbreviations BPMN XXX CPS DSE FMI FMU HiL JSON OSLC RDF SVN UML URI XML Business Process Model and Notation Co-Simulation Orchestration Engine Cyber-Physical System Design Space Exploration Functional Mockup Interface Functional Mockup Unit Hardware in the...
Summary and Outlook. The last ten of research, development and testing have yielded interesting and impressive results. The energy absorbing capacity of rockfall barriers has been raised by a factor of eight, and the scient and technical knowledge has improved considerably. Despite these efforts results there remain, alas, still many design problems unsolved. current arid provide answers. In Switzerland, as well as in many other countries, Standards on and unified testing procedures are about to be issued. This, of course, is an important step forward. We have to make sure, however, that individual research, development and testing will be carried on to assure future progress.
Summary and Outlook. In this part of the deliverable we presented the initial specification of the learn- ing analytics and scaffolding services. Students, teachers, researchers and lab owners have been identified as main stakeholders of learning analytics. A ba- sic requirement for learning analytics is to capture of the learners’ activities in a comprehensive way. To enable scaffolding of the learning process through immediate feedback by the system, a feedback channel from the analytics in- frastructure to the learning environment is needed. Apart from that, relevant data for analytics like action logs of students need to be stored persistently and be accessible by analytics tools for retrospective ex-post analysis. In order to achieve a general framework that enables the implementation of the required services, the envisaged architecture of the learning analytics backend services is based on a modular multi-agent system with agent communication over a shared memory. This enables a flexible integration of components be- cause the complete coordination of agents is mediated by the shared memory. In the ILS platform activity tracking is done using the user tracking agent (An- geLA). XxxxXX is technically a space member of an ILS. The agent records actions happening within an ILS where it is a member. This allows for config- urable user tracking which is in control of the teacher as space creator. Apps in the ILS portal can use dedicated APIs for action logging and notifications that simplifies the connection to the learning analytics backend. After the techni- cal realisation of the specified learning analytics infrastructure, future work will cover the development of specific analytics methods for user activities in ILS and recommendations in the lab repository. There will also be a detailed planning of useful analytics enabled scaffolding mechanisms in coordination with the ped- agogical partners in Go-Lab. First case studies of learning analytics in Go-Lab with a prototypical implementation of the specified services will be presented in D4.4.
Summary and Outlook. The Go-Lab Add-on Services bring added-value to the Go-Lab Portal. The Go- Lab Booking System offers diverse booking schemes for remote labs booking. The Go-Lab Booking System provides remote labs a booking system cloud ser- vice, if those remote labs don’t have sufficient resources to implement their own. Thus, it provides a unified and simplified way to book online labs although they have different booking mechanisms. The Go-Lab Bartering Platform supports the dynamic development of Go-Lab user communities. Users help each other in operating online labs as well as design and use of inquiry spaces. Any user is able to become a tutor for online labs with the growth of their knowledge and skills. This process is validated through social rating and social commenting. Here the most users will be school teachers. Thus, the bartering platform makes the Go-Lab Portal comprise a sustainable market place of knowledge and skills about online labs for teachers. It is a promising solution to supporting teach- ers’ lifelong learning. Teachers’ tutoring activities in the bartering platform will add more interactions among teachers to support teachers’ activities in Go-Lab Portal. This section described the initial specification for Go-Lab Add-on Services. Be- sides this specification, user surveys will be conducted to validate the specified requirements. The surveys will take place in Go-Lab workshops related to aca- demic events in the research area of technology enhanced learning as well as in participatory design workshops with school teachers.
Summary and Outlook. 77. Within the framework of the legal exemption system established by Reg. 1/03 EC the self-assessment of cooperation agreements by the respective parties plays a crucial role. The present document has outlined the key aspects of such a competition assessment with particular respect to code-sharing agreements. Where possible reference has been made to the European Competition Authorities' relevant enforcement practices. These enforcement practices show that code-sharing agreements may be in conflict with European or national competition law.
Summary and Outlook. In this talk we have presented first results on our research about agreement with coordinated subjects in the world’s languages. • We determined four factors that possibly influence the agreement strategy according to the liter- ature: – Language – Agreement feature – Word order – Coordination type • Of these four factors, we can currently confirm that word order is a significant factor: Under VS order, closest conjunct agreement is more probable than under SV order. • More data (testing more factor combinations and coming from a more balanced language sample) is needed to see whether or not the other factors play a role as well. Accounting for word order effects?: • At this point, it is unclear how theories of agreement can account for the word order effect. • In many constructions the final word order (VS vs. SV) is fixed after agreement has applied. • Additionally, one has to keep in mind that there often is some sort of optionality between agree- ment strategies for speakers. • In fact, during elicitation, some speakers experienced some insecurity regarding their judgments. Outlook: • In the last years, the interest in agreement with coordinations has increased. • Researchers can access our database to
Summary and Outlook. Almost all PaNOSC partners have a production instance for Jupyter notebook services in place. The VISA deployment has reached a state where nearly all partners can use a close-to-production demo or an actual production instance, so that a cloud solution for data analysis can be offered to users. The availability of both aspects - Jupyter notebook and remote desktop service (VISA as integrated platform and in case an alternative remote desktop tool) - will be extremely valuable for the last phase of the project where the added value of such developments to the PaN user community has to be demonstrated. The more usage the services get, the more easily a continuation of development and maintenance can be motivated at the institutions, respectively the more likely will funding for additional personnel and hardware resources be.
Summary and Outlook. The activities carried out within EUCALL WP3 have resulted in the identification and investigation of three topics of particular interest for the further development of the advanced laser light sources in view of their scientific and innovative potential. These activities revolved around a total of seven workshops addressing those three thematic areas. The workshops brought together EUCALL partners and scientists, engineers and managers from the community and other research infrastructures. Feedback received from the participants was overwhelmingly positive and several suggestions for further workshops have been collected. The “Societal Challenges” event gave participants the opportunity to review how the various facilities and research methods, and in particular how the suite of advanced laser light sources, contribute or may contribute to addressing societal challenges. This activity highlighted future directions of research and collaboration and even concrete proposals for actions were made. Similar events with different focus and direction may be repeated in the future. The prospect of high-repetition rates at the new advanced laser light source facilities triggered the creation of a “Target Network” as another significant activity within WP3. The full scientific exploitation of these facilities and their use by small- and medium-sized research groups will require solutions to address the challenges that come with high- repetition-rate experiments, such as debris, EMP, or simply the provision of the adequate number of samples/targets. With the new possibilities offered by the suite of advanced laser light sources it becomes more and more relevant to put a focus on “Theory and Simulation” in order to prepare, conduct and analyze experiments at these facilities. Current theoretical methods and standard simulation tools are facing their limits and new developments and breakthroughs are needed to keep pace with experimental progress. Without advances in that area it will become difficult to efficiently prepare experiments and to properly analyze experimental data. Overall, EUCALL has provided the demonstration that advanced laser light sources share a number of common physics and engineering problems, as well as operational challenges that can best be addressed at a cross-community level through clustering initiatives. The project and its results make a strong case for future support of cross-community initiatives by European and national funding agencies....
Summary and Outlook. The EUDAQ2 software is released as the basic software framework for use in beam tests with multiple linear collider detectors. The software is freely available for download and is accompanied by documentation and a manual to aid the user. The software has been shown to work in a beam test involving the CALICE analogue hadronic calorimeter and the EUDET beam telescope along with other devices and detectors. The software has also been used in ATLAS pixel detector upgrade beam tests. The EUDAQ software was used in a CMS HGCAL and CALICE combined beam test with the intention to upgrade to EUDAQ2 for future beam tests. The DQM4HEP framework provides a reliable method for online monitoring and data quality monitoring for physics test beam data that is generic, flexible and scalable. It has proven that it can adapt to different detector types, including detectors with different event and read-out structures. It has also proven that it is capable of handling common test beams with more than one detector, correlating the information received from the data acquisition to create a picture of what is happening in all detectors. The use of the two software codes, EUDAQ2 and DQM4HEP, in beam tests and their availability to the wider community constitute the meeting of this deliverable. The software will be used in future beam tests for other Linear Collider detectors and is available for other systems as well.
