Craig M. Gelowitz

A tweet grouping methodology utilizing inter and intra cosine similarity

Twitter enables users to write and publish messages with a maximum of 140 characters. This is sometimes termed micro-blogging because individuals often use Twitter to communicate their thoughts, commentary or feelings about any given subject. Twitters significant popularity and mass usage has resulted in any subject queried from the Twitter API that may return a vast number of tweets. These tweets can be related to several different categories. This paper proposes a hierarchical clustering system that groups tweets into meaningful clusters based on cosine similarity score.

Real-time extreme programming

This paper is a research study to analyze the potential use of extreme programming paradigm for real-time programming. The analysis begins by presenting a common reference model for real-time programming and coupling with existing formalisms. The paper highlights the parts of the extreme programming approach that can contribute to the real-time development process and the aspects of extreme programming that will not work for real-time development, thus presenting a viable approach to real-time extreme programming.

A Dynamic User Interface for Transit Tracking Applications

This paper presents a dynamic user interface for transit tracking applications. Over the past number of years, there has been a considerable debate among developers between the development of native applications versus web-based application development. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. This paper examines and discusses the Transit Live application that has been created primarily as a web application for enabling rich user interaction through the integration of native device capabilities in a web-based application context. The framework, its interface, and the implications of Transit Live interface changes are presented and examined in this paper through user generated statistics and trends gathered over time.

A mobile agent framework for ubiquitous media access

The trend in increased storage capacity of personal media devices has paralleled the increase in network capable and digital media capable devices such as televisions, computers, cell phones and other personal media devices. This implies that media will continue to be stored across a variety of personal network enabled devices despite available cloud-based media storage and sharing solutions. There has been a demonstrated desire to establish a convergent and ubiquitous media access experience among distributed media storage and devices. This is supported by the numerous attempts and development of media access applications, systems and techniques by industry and academia. The framework design in this paper demonstrates that the identified issues and limitations of existing media access solutions can be overcome through the utilization of a software agent media framework design.

Multidisciplinary approaches to computing

This paper summarizes the discussions at a panel on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Computing at CCECE 2013, showcasing multidisciplinary research at the University of Regina. The panellist were invited from Fine Arts, Arts, Science, and Engineering. They elaborated on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary views of computing, covering various topics such as agents, arts, knowledge engineering, granular computing, environment, mobile computing, multi-media, new media, scientistic computing, teaching, and Web-based support systems. The emerged theme of multidisciplinary computing brings new insights and in-depth understanding of computing.

Engineering and art collaborations for innovation

From Leonardo da Vinci to collaborations in the 1960s between engineers and artists and the more recent success of Apple Inc., demonstrates that the connection between engineering and art is well established. This paper gives some historical background on engineering and art collaborations and presents two such collaborations. The collaborations presented are DataS p a c e d and TimeTransit. These projects demonstrate that engineering and art collaborations provide individual benefit to both the artist and the engineer. In addition, the technology lessons learned through these types of projects can also lead to further innovation for the creation of technology outside of the realm of only art installations.

The LISA prototype framework for media access and delivery

This paper presents the LISA (Location Independent Service Agents) prototype framework for location independent media service access and delivery. Location independent media services imply that a user can be nomadic and be delivered media services at any location via the network. The delivery of media using mobile agent technology enhances the access and delivery of media services by evaluating the media and network context. To enable these enhancements, mobile agents must traverse networks to discover and deliver media services to nomadic users. The LISA prototype uses mobile agents that cooperate to traverse networks, find media, determine media context, and provide media services. This paper addresses two sources of contextual information within this paradigm, the contextual nature of the network path and the current context of multiple sources of media storage.