CYCLADES @ GMD

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CYCLADES _at_ GMD
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GMD-FIT

• GMDGerman National Research Center for
  Information Technology
• 8 Institutes
• gt 1000 employees
• FITInstitute for Applied Information Technology
• Human-Computer Interaction group
• Computer-Supported Cooperative Work group
• Experience
• gt 12 years of concepts, development, and
  implementation of CSCW systems
• Projects in the areas of WfMS, directory systems,
  organisational knowledge modelling, CSCW tools
  and applications (e.g., BSCW, TOWER, EuorCODE,
  COMIC, PoliTeam)

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Recommender Service

• Functionality
• Users get recommendations about documents in
  archives that might be relevant
• Users get information about other users and
  communities of potential interest
• User can rate documents
• Users can view and query rates of documents
• Users can send recommendations to other users
• Users get recommendations about other users who
  might also be interested

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Recommender Service (contd)

• Hybrid space
• Neighbourhoods communities of interest
• Social space model based on similarity of users
  rating patterns (analysis of user behaviour)
• Content space model based on similarity of users
  content-based profiles (analysis of user profiles)

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Recommender ServiceComponents

• Community building component
• Compares interests among single users and
  between single users and communities
• Provides information about matches
• Rating component
• Provides interface for rating documents
• Provides interface for reading and querying
  ratings
• Administrates ratings and controls access
• Recommender component
• Generates and presents recommendations according
  to the users behaviour and interest profile
• Administrates user preferences as to the contents
  and the schedule of recommendations

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Collaborative Work Service

• Functionality
• Users can annotate and rate documents
• Users can share documents and meta-data in a
  community of interestthat is, add/remove
  documents and meta-data, grant/revoke access,
  etc.
• Users are notified about changes in shared
  documents and meta-data
• Users can specify preferences for notification
  (e.g., which documents, schedule)
• Users are made aware of other users who are
  online at the same time and can have spontaneous
  conversations
• Users can develop a community-specific
  terminology
• Users get automatic cross-references for
  content-based navigation

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Collaborative Work ServiceComponents

• Sharing component
• Administrates community documents and controls
  access
• Provides functionality for adding, deleting,
  versioning community documents
• Communication component
• Provides chat tool
• Awareness component
• Captures, administrates, and presents information
  about documents and activities in the communities

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Tasks

• Task T3.5 recommender service(M7-18)
• Provides recommendations by exploiting user and
  community needs
• ToDo internal architecture, detailed
  specification, and implementation
• Task T3.6 collaborative work service(M7-18)
• Provides shared space including document sharing
  and annotation, awareness, communication channels
• ToDo internal architecture, detailed
  specification, and implementation

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Tasks (contd)

• Task T4.1 system integration(M19-22)
• Provides integration of single software modules
• ToDo detailed specification of exchange formats
• Task T4.2 system testing(M22-23)
• Provides tests for programming and design errors
• ToDo static and dynamic check-out tests

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Tasks (contd)

• Task T6.1 experimentation within ERCIM(M25-30)
• Provides a demonstration environment within ERCIM
• ToDo experimentation incl. field tests with
  ERCIM working groups as scholarly communities
• Task T6.2 experimentation within DELOS
  NoE(M25-30)
• Provides a demonstration environment within DELOS
  NoE
• ToDo experimentation incl. field tests with
  DELOS NoE research community