Time-stamp: "2002-10-03 15:07:17 yoshida"
Japanese version.
Shine
This is a research on methodology of building socialware.
We investigate data, data structure, user inferfaces, communication
protocols, and program controll mechanisms that are common to vairous
socialware applications, and consequently provide a
design guideline in developing socialware
applications.  In particular, we focus on realizing socialware as
multi-agent systems, in which distrubuted clients cooperate, rather
than conventional client-server systems.
In addition, we are developing a platform named Shine, which
is intended to be an infrastructure for developing applications
following our design methodology.  Being built on the
common platform Shine, an application can
- cooperate with other applications by sharing data;
- share or reuse program components in developing; and
- get to have a multi-agent architcutre.
Publications
- 
  Yoshida, S., Kamei, K., Ohguro, T. and Kuwabara, K.:
  Shine:
  A Peer-to-Peer Based Framework of Network Community Support Systems,
  
    Computer Communications
  ,
  Special Issue Ubiquitous Computing.  (to appear).
- 
  Yoshida, S.,
  Kamei, K., Ohguro, T., Kuwabara, K. and Funakoshi, K.:
  Building a Network Community Support System
  on the Multi-Agent Platform Shine,
  
    Design and Applications of Intelligent Agents -
    Proceedings of
    the Third Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2000)
  ,
  Vol. 1881 of
  
    
      Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
    
  ,
  pp. 88-100
  (2000).
  [
    
      abstract
    
  ]
  [PostScript]
  [PDF]
- 
  Yoshida, S.,
  Ohguro, T., Kamei, K., Funakoshi, K., and Kuwabara, K.:
  A Platform for Making Network Community Support Systems
  in a Cooperative Distributed Architecture,
  
    
      Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on
      Parallel and Distributed Systems: Workshops (ICPADS 2000 Workshops)
    
  ,
  pp. 441-446
  (2000).
- 
  Yoshida, S.,
  Ohguro, T., Kamei, K., Funakoshi, K., and Kuwabara, K.:
  Shine: a Cyber-community Application Platform - A Proposal -,
  
    Short Papers Proceedings 
    of the Second Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents
    (PRIMA'99)
  , 
  pp. 31-40
  (1999).
  [PostScript]
  [PDF]
Besides the above, there are also publications written in Japanese.
The list of Japanese publications is
on the Japanese version of this page.
Software
The Shine platform is implemented in Java and is provided
as a Java class library.  Unfortunately, we are not ready to
release any product to public.  Shine is still in the stage of
prototyping.
Products Powered by Shine
The following products are based on, or are planed to be ported onto,
the Shine platform.
Contact
Please contact Sen Yoshida.
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