Towards Collective Awareness Systems
Progress on smart interconnected devices and sensors allow access to large amounts of real time information coming from multiple sources, allowing reaching new levels of awareness and creating opportunities for new applications. Motivating engineering PhD
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Abstract. Progress on smart interconnected devices and sensors allow access to large amounts of real time information coming from multiple sources, allowing reaching new levels of awareness and creating opportunities for new applications. Motivating engineering PhD students to look into the potential of this new wave of research is a crucial element in their education. With this aim, the doctoral conference DoCEIS'14 focused on technological innovation for collective awareness systems, challenging the contributors to analyze in which ways their technical and scientific work could contribute to or benefit from this paradigm. The results of this initiative are briefly analyzed in this chapter. Keywords: Collective Awareness, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems.
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Introduction
Fast progress on devices with increased computational capabilities and connected to computer networks, namely to Internet, give users access to unprecedentedly high amounts of real time information coming from a large diversity of distributed sources. This situation greatly extends our capability of being aware of the surrounding environment and expands the reach-ability of our perception horizon. The multi-dimensional nature of the accessible information sources and their growing pervasiveness opens the opportunity for new levels of awareness, and thus the development of new applications, virtually in all domains of human activity. In this context, a large variety of research challenges emerge, ranging from devices development, communication mechanisms and protocols, to high-level information interpretation, and novel services development. The very nature of the involved areas, combining the physical and the cyber worlds, requires a multi-disciplinary approach, in which the competencies typically covered by the disciplines of Electrical and Computer Engineering play a relevant role. Considering that a substantial amount of technological innovation results from the research works of engineering PhD students, it is important to call the attention of students in this area, which typically tend to focus on a specific research topic, for the potential of the “interconnected information sources” and the role they can play in the innovation process. The DoCEIS’14 (5th Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems) was thus organized with this mission and some of the results are summarized in this paper. L.M. Camarinha-Matos et al. (Eds.): DoCEIS 2014, IFIP AICT 423, pp. 3–10, 2014. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2014
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The term collective awareness represents a concept that has been evolving since the 19th century [1], originally related to the works of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, and referring to the common norms, values, and beliefs shared by the members of a community. With the developments of the information and communication technologies, the concept has been revisited and rephrased under the perspectives of human-c
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