Healthcare data safe havens: towards a logical architecture and experiment automation

Abstract: In computing science, much attention has been paid to generic methods for sharing data in secure infrastructures. These sorts of methods and infrastructures are, of course, necessary for sharing healthcare data. The authors are, however, a long way away Continue reading

Recognizing Hospital Care Activities with a Pocket Worn Smartphone – Best Paper Award

Our paper “Recognizing Hospital Care Activities with a Pocket Worn Smartphone” received the Best Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCASE 2014). This has been a joint effort of the German Research Centre Continue reading

First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing, Call for Papers

May 5-9, 2014 @ Paris, France.

The First International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing is Co-located with AAMAS 2014.

Much of the recent excitement in social computing is driven by data analytics and business models. What is still lacking, however, is a deeper conceptual understanding of social computing — e.g., relating to its conceptual bases, information and abstractions, design principles, and platforms. This event invites papers that take an explicitly multiagent perspective in addressing these gaps and do so in thought-provoking ways. Continue reading