Gilson Yukio Sato

• Dr
• Lecturer at Federal University of Technology Parana

Noctua is a web tool to assist in Knowledge Acquisition and Collaborative Knowledge Construction processes. Noctua has an innovation: a Virtual Catalyst designed to facilitate the task of eliciting and validating knowledge. The Virtual Catalyst queries participants, proposing new knowledge, seeking confirmation to the knowledge already elicited, an...

Document source code is seen as a boring time consuming task by several developers. However, a welldocumented source code, allow developers to have a better visibility into what was and is being developed, helping, for example, the reuse of the code. This study presents a semi-automatic method for documentation of source code from the existing arti...

Social networks gather people exchanging information continuously and building knowledge. Knowing what goes on in such groups is difficult. However, the social Web is in part organized around communities of practice (CoP) and it could benefit from some advances in the CoP area. In a CoP a given person describes a trajectory into and within the CoP,...

This paper concerns the relationship between agents or multi-agent systems and distributed communities of practice. It presents a review of a number of agent and multi-agent applications with features that could contribute to supporting distributed communities of practice. The association is promising because of features like autonomy, pro-activity...

Symbiotic computing leads to a proliferation of computing devices that allow linking people, favoring the development of distributed Communities of Practice (CoPs). Their members, being dispersed geographically, have to rely strongly on technological means to interact. In this context, coordinating distributed CoPs is more challenging than coordina...

During the software development cycle, artifacts (source-code, documentation, user manuals, etc.) are written, most of them, cooperatively. Each participant in a software development team plays a specific role, but may write an artifact cooperatively with participants playing different roles. In large and distributed teams the roles are well-define...

Symbiotic computing leads to a proliferation of computing devices that allow linking people, favoring the development of distributed Communities of Practice (CoPs). Their members, being dispersed geographically, have to rely strongly on technological means to interact. In this context, coordinating distributed CoPs is more challenging than coordina...

This paper presents Noctua, a tool to assist in Knowledge Acquisition and Collaborative Knowledge Construction processes. Noctua contains an innovation: a virtual catalyst designed to facilitate the task of eliciting and validating knowledge. The virtual catalyst queries collaborators, proposing new knowledge, seeking confirmation to the knowledge...

Software developers often face the task of documenting source code. For many of them, documenting code development is a boring task. However, source code documentation is an important task, especially when dealing with groups of developers. An updated documentation allows group members to have greater visibility on what has been and is being develo...

Building application domain models is a time-consuming activity in software engineering. In small teams, it is an activity that involves almost all participants, including developers and domain experts. In our approach, we support the knowledge engineering activity by reusing tagging done by team participants when they search information on the Web...

Noctua is a tool to assist the Knowledge Acquisition and Collaborative Knowledge Construction processes. Noctua contains a virtual catalyst designed to facilitate the task of eliciting and validating knowledge. The virtual catalyst queries collaborators, proposing new knowledge, seeking confirmation to the knowledge already elicited, and showing co...

Virtual communities and distributed communities of practice leave traces of their activities that are a valuable source of research material. At the same time, studying this kind of community requires new methods, techniques and tools. In this chapter, we present the Community Agent: a tool to follow the evolution of the domain of a distributed Com...

In this paper, we discuss the construction of dialogs for Personal Assistant Agents that are in charge of the interface between users and a Multi-Agent System. Such a system aims at providing support for small teams developing software collaboratively. Small teams have specific needs such as the integration of free or open-source tools or the suppo...

In this paper, we discuss the construction of dialogs for Personal Assistant Agents that are in charge of the interface between users and a Multi-Agent System. Such a system aims at providing support for small teams developing software collaboratively. These small teams have specific needs such as the integration of free or open-source tools or the...

Virtual communities and distributed communities of practice leave traces of their activities that are a valuable source of research material. At the same time, studying this kind of community requires new methods, techniques and tools. In this chapter, we present the Community Agent: a tool to follow the evolution of the domain of a distributed Com...

This paper discusses a tool to study the relations among group members of a social network that evolve using a virtual environment. Understanding how these relations are built and maintained is essential to foster favorable conditions that can facilitate collective and individual learning. The focus of interest is how inner relations affect both th...

Although good content correctness can be observed on the web, one may have difficulty finding a set of entries covering a complete syllabus of a course with a coherent pedagogic approach. We conducted an experiment to test the hypothesis if a collection of didactic contents can be discussed, distributed and produced by an online community of teache...

The research on CSCW and groupware systems focus the activities of distributed teams involved in large projects by means of tools for communication and awareness. The activities of small collocated teams are often neglected. Analyzing preliminary requirements of small teams, it is possible to observe the need of tools to help the elaboration of pro...

Most CSCW and groupware systems focus the activities of distributed teams involved in large projects by means of tools for communication and awareness. The activities of small collocated teams are often neglected. Analyzing preliminary requirements of small teams, it is possible to observe the need of tools to help the elaboration of project docume...

Symbiotic computing leads to a proliferation of computing devices that in turn allow linking people, favouring the development of Communities of Practice (CoPs). The notion of Communities of Practice is newer than the social organization it describes, but the emergence of technologies based on the Internet like emails, forums, blogs, wikis, confere...

This paper presents a preliminary analysis of some possibilities to apply multi agent systems to support Communities of Practice. Firstly, we present some basic issues on Communities of Practice including a definition, a couple of cases and the concepts of identities, trajectories and multi-membership. Then, we analyze the adequacy of the multi age...

Résumé Cet article présente une analyse préliminaire de quelques possibilités d'application de Systèmes Multi-Agents pour l'aide de la coordination de Communautés de Pratique. Nous présentons suc-cessivement une définition des Communautés de Pratique, deux cas d'application, puis les concepts d'identité, de trajectoire et de « multi filiation » dan...