Ramana Reddy

Epistemology of knowlege based simulation

Combining artificial intelligence concepts with traditional simula tion methodologies yields a powerful design support tool known as knowledge based simulation. This approach turns a descrip tive simulation tool into a prescriptive tool, one which recom mends specific goals. Much work in the area of general goal pro cessing and explanation of recommendations remains to be done.

Information intelligence in cloud computing: how can Vijjana, a collaborative, self-organizing, domain centric knowledge network model help

This research reports agent activities in a collaborative, self-organizing, domain centric knowledge network, called Vijjana. Vijjana means classified knowledge in Sanskrit language. This model has been designed and implemented to assist users engaged in web activities, limiting the data retrieval to desired material only. The model Vijjana sits on the top layer of the cloud computing architecture, and with its agent activities develops a body of intelligent reasoning system which can semantically connect different dispersed users with their own knowledge nets. Vijjana model makes the cloud computing intelligibly usable for connecting different people working with the same domain specific interest. This provides a high order of accountability with assurance on confidentiality, integrity and availability.

A collaborative environment for independent verification and validation of software

The collaborative approach to product development is becoming increasingly recognized as a key to improve the productivity of the participating team members. However, in practice, its realization is hindered by the lack of computing environments to support collaborative work. The set of basic transactions needed in a collaborative setting consists of a variety of activities: look up, communicate, compute, decide, negotiate, and archive. We discuss a generic architecture for a collaborative environment. We discuss the application of the same generic architecture to the software domain: to develop an environment for independent verification and validation (IV&V) of software. The benefits of the collaborative approach are: early diagnosis of problems, improvement in efficiency and team performance, and consequently cost savings. This will be especially beneficial for IV&V of large software systems. We illustrate the collaborative environment using an example of a software that performs set operations on polygons.<<ETX>>

ARTEMIS: a research testbed for collaborative health care informatics

Patient centred healthcare delivery is an inherently collaborative and information-intensive process. It involves a wide range of individuals and organizations with different roles. The key to cost reduction and quality improvement in health care is effective management of this collaborative process. The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) developed a number of key technologies to enable collaborative processes. These technologies, integrated into an open collaborative environment, is currently being customized to create a research testbed, ARTEMIS, that addresses all aspects of patient-care life-cycle. ARTEMIS will equip each provider with his own personal assistant-a customized role-oriented workstation connected to his own information world through an information bus. With ARTEMIS, the users will be able to process multimedia patient-care information: look-up, compute, communicate, archive and collaborate.<<ETX>>

Personal knowledge networks in the mobile millennium

In the present day Knowledge Society, which is increasingly mobile, workers are expected to bring to bear vast amounts of knowledge to deal with situations they face — often instantly. Under these circumstances, there is little time to employ traditional methods of searching for information and processing it to deal with the problem at hand. What we need then is a tool that constantly finds information, organizes and presents it at the point of need — perhaps, on a mobile computer such as the iPhone. This is the focus of the Vijjana project at West Virginia University.

Eksarva: A Pragmatic Approach to Collaboration in Pervasive Computing Environments

Summary form only given. Pervasive computing and universal connectivity has dramatically changed the way societies function at play and at work. Many tools, technologies and protocols have become prevalent to enable collaboration -globally. However, the tool centric nature of the present environments has placed inherent limitations on further expansion of global collaboration opportunities. In order to overcome this barrier, we need to create an environment that is based on model that captures the true nature of collaboration -one that incorporates intuitive interfaces, spontaneity, and mixed initiative (i.e., initiative taken by a human or an agent) among others. In this talk, we will explore such a system, known as Eksarva that is currently being developed at West Virginia University. We will also explore how Eksarva may be used to create a universal teaching/learning environment that exploits global resources to benefit students and teachers everywhere.

Architectural alternatives for community care networks

Patient centered healthcare delivery is an inherently collaborative and information-intensive process. It involves a wide range of individuals and organizations with different roles. The key to cost reduction and quality improvement in healthcare is effective management of this collaborative process. We investigate various alternatives and their ramifications in implementing a community care network. We leverage the existing technology and software developed earlier at our center as well as from the ongoing project on an Advanced Research Testbed for Medical Information System (ARTEMIS).<<ETX>>