Toru Ishida Boeken

Increasing interaction among multilingual communities necessitates effective services for multilingual communication. The Language Grid initiative aims to create an infrastructure enabling users to develop composite language services for intercultural collaboration. Its goal is to help communities build customized multilingual environments that address local language barriers. Key stakeholders include language resource providers, service users, and grid operators coordinating these efforts. This book comprises 18 chapters divided into six parts, summarizing research findings and development activities related to the Language Grid. Part I outlines the framework of service-oriented collective intelligence connecting providers, users, and operators, introducing software tools like the service grid server and Language Grid Toolbox, both available under open-source licenses. Part II focuses on technologies for service workflows that integrate atomic language services. Part III discusses research on sharing and utilizing these services, while Part IV explores various applications for intercultural collaboration. Part V highlights the Language Grid's role in translation tasks, including the localization of industrial documents and Wikipedia articles. Finally, Part VI demonstrates connections between the Language Grid and other service grids, such as DFKI's Heart of Gold and smart classroom services at Tsinghua University. This book i

Here we use the term "field" to refer to a sphere of practical operation, and correspondingly the term "field informatics" describes informatics tools and methodologies that arise in the field.

Exploring the dynamics of autonomous agents and multiagent systems, this book delves into how multiple computational agents interact and collaborate to achieve various tasks. It examines both scenarios where agents share common goals and situations where they pursue distinct objectives, highlighting the complexity and adaptability of these systems in computational environments.

On the way towards the Information Society, global networks such as the Internet, together with mobile computing, have made wide-area computing over virtual communities a reality. Digital city projects, with the goal of building platforms to support community networking, are going on worldwide. This is the first book devoted to digital cities. It is based on an international symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book; they reflect the state of the art in this exciting new field of interdisciplinary research and development. The book is divided into parts on design and analysis, digital city experiments, community network experiments, applications, visualization technologies, mobile technologies, and social interaction and communityware.

In the light of upcoming global issues, concerning population, energy, the environment, and food, information and communication technologies are required to overcome difficulties in communication among cultures. In this context, the First International Conference on Culture and Computing, which was held in Kyoto, Japan, in February 2010, was conceived as a collection of symposia, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and guided tours intended to share issues, activities, and research results regarding culture and computing. This volume includes 17 invited and selected papers dealing with state-of-the-art topics in culturally situated agents, intercultural collaboration and support systems, culture and computing for art and heritage, as well as culture and computing within regional communities.

This work explores various dimensions of language resources and services through a structured ontology framework. It connects universal concepts to specific applications, aiming for a global grid that facilitates multicultural processing. A multilingual ontology based on the Swadesh List serves as a conceptual core, while an upper ontology is developed to describe linguistic services. The formal ontology addresses cultures and ethnic groups using type theory and functional programming. The text captures a conceptual model for intercultural collaboration in copyright management, focusing on international copyright laws. It discusses the development of language resources, including a web-based framework for collaborative multilingual grammar and treebank development, and a platform for multilingual resource development and intercultural communication. Additionally, it examines the exploitation of aligned parallel corpora in multilingual studies, the support of multilingual communication through the Language Grid, and the architecture for fostering intercultural collaboration. Tools designed for intercultural communication, such as an aural comprehension aid and a pictogram communication system for children, are also featured. The analysis extends to emotions in intercultural collaboration, cross-cultural studies of avatars, and culturally-situated pictogram retrieval. It reviews the implications of culture on online learning

In the era of ubiquitous computing and networking, millions of electronic devices with computing facilities in the public space are connected with each other in ad hoc ways, but are required to behave coherently. Massively multi-agent systems, MMAS can be a major design paradigm or an implementation method for ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. As the infrastructure of massively multi-agent systems, technologies such as grid computing together with semantic annotation can be combined with agent technology. A new system design approach, society-centered design, may be realized by embedding participatory technologies in human society. This book originates from the First International Workshop on Massively Multi-Agent Systems, MMAS 2004, held in Kyoto, Japan in December 2004. The 25 revised full selected and invited papers give an excellent introduction and overview on massively multi-agent systems. The papers are organized in parts on massively multi-agent technology, teams and organization, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence, and massively multi-agent systems in the public space.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First Pacific Rim International Conference on Multiagents, PRIMA '98, held in Singapore in November 1998 during PRICAI '98. The 13 revised full papers presented have been carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on multiagent systems design, coordination platforms, and network application platforms; they address various current issues ranging from theorectical foundations to advanced applications in several areas.

This comprehensive exploration delves into the intersection of computation and community dynamics, offering insights into methodologies for large-scale experimentation and the design of community information systems. It discusses the implications of complexity and adaptation, highlighting the evolution of multiagent worlds for analyzing social interactions. The text emphasizes the importance of awareness in connecting groupware and community support systems, while also addressing the social psychological and artistic dimensions of human interfaces. Key topics include the demographics of digital cities, collaborative frameworks like EdNA, and the development of context-aware mobile assistants for exhibitions. It covers strategies for managing large online discussions and analyzes social pattern development through case studies in regional networks. The text also introduces systems like CoMeMo-Community and IKNOW, which facilitate knowledge evolution and network maintenance. Furthermore, it examines the role of classifications in building information infrastructures and supporting social interactions within communities. The discussion extends to the design of technologies that aid collaborative activities and the use of historical context for social navigation. Finally, it explores the potential of agent technologies in enhancing human interactions and community formation through innovative matchmaking systems.

This monograph coherently presents a series of research results on concurrent production systems recently contributed by the author and several co-authors. Before going into the details of concurrent production systems the performance of a single system is discussed. Based on these considerations it is explained how to estimate the efficiency of production systems programs and how to automatically determine efficient join structures. Parallel systems, including algorithms for parallel rule firings, distributed systems under distributed control, and particularly multiagent production systems and the related control issues are investigated. Finally a meta-level control architecture is applied to the construction of the multiagent system CoCo for public telecommunication network control.