This paper is based on a living lab process, which is an open, user-centric, innovation approach, where several actors from industry, user groups and academia are involved. The research question is: How can a boundary context, such as a living lab process, be understood and facilitated from a community of practice perspective? We aim to describe and analyze the dynamics in an innovation boundar...

In large human-computer networks, information brokers provide links among syntactically and semantically heterogeneous information sources with information users who are equally diverse in their interests and capabilities. After giving a brief overview of the eld, we compare three approaches to information brokering which share the idea of using domain-oriented meta models to focus the brokerin...

In this paper, we briefly describe our approach and experience in a research effort focused on (re)engineering the activity of research grants management at the Office of Naval Research. We found that we could contribute to a substantial reduction in process cycle time and operational costs associated with the funding of thousands of research grant procurement actions. Accordingly, we focus our...

This paper aims to theoretically discuss why the ‘post-modern’ professionals are emerging from the ‘modern’ professionalism in the second half of the twentieth century, and how their domestication of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile and wireless technologies, potentially shapes and is shaped by the emerging professionals’ work practices. For this discussion...

Problems such as resource and service discovery models, load balancing and scheduling, brokering are eminent in grid systems due to bottlenecks such as bandwidth and network traffic in the underlying communication infrastructures and their associated costs in fabricating a scalable and cost effect grid services infrastructure. The primary goals of this paper is to apply grid based coalition for...

We have designed and produced a framework for Grid-based failure detection to monitor and report on our automated laboratory equipment and the Robot Scientist. Its features are distributed agent based monitoring, selective reporting and report dispatch brokering. Monitoring and reporting agents can be distributed due to the loose coupling of Web Services, enabling a large enviroment of paramete...

This paper first describes a few existing models for product and merchant brokering and automated negotiation in the framework of agent-based e-marketplaces. Our analysis shows that only simplest types of automated negotiation protocols are currently presented online, whereas some powerful systems have been already implemented in the product and merchant brokering field. Then we give an overvie...

In order to realize our goal of enabling pervasive computing, we present a distributed mobile agent-based architecture for wireless computational grids in cellular networks. In this paper, we propose an architecture for a wireless grid that facilitates mobile devices to solve resource-intensive tasks by harnessing the power of other devices with readily available resources. In a cellular networ...