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Reports on the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposium Series
Agarwal, Nitin (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) | Andrist, Sean (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Bohus, Dan (Microsoft Research) | Fang, Fei (University of Southern California) | Fenstermacher, Laurie (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) | Kagal, Lalana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Kido, Takashi (Rikengenesis) | Kiekintveld, Christopher (University of Texas at El Paso) | Lawless, W. F. (Paine College) | Liu, Huan (Arizona State University) | McCallum, Andrew (University of Massachusetts) | Purohit, Hemant (Wright State University) | Seneviratne, Oshani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Takadama, Keiki (University of Electro-Communications) | Taylor, Gavin (US Naval Academy)
The AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium Series was held Monday through Wednesday, March 23-25, at Stanford University near Palo Alto, California. The titles of the seven symposia were Ambient Intelligence for Health and Cognitive Enhancement, Applied Computational Game Theory, Foundations of Autonomy and Its (Cyber) Threats: From Individuals to Interdependence, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Neural Approaches, Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Socio-Technical Behavior Mining: From Data to Decisions, Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect Fit or Overkill?
Reports on the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposium Series
Agarwal, Nitin (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) | Andrist, Sean (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | Bohus, Dan (Microsoft Research) | Fang, Fei (University of Southern California) | Fenstermacher, Laurie (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base) | Kagal, Lalana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Kido, Takashi (Rikengenesis) | Kiekintveld, Christopher (University of Texas at El Paso) | Lawless, W. F. (Paine College) | Liu, Huan (Arizona State University) | McCallum, Andrew (University of Massachusetts) | Purohit, Hemant (Wright State University) | Seneviratne, Oshani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Takadama, Keiki (University of Electro-Communications) | Taylor, Gavin (US Naval Academy)
The AAAI 2015 Spring Symposium Series was held Monday through Wednesday, March 23-25, at Stanford University near Palo Alto, California. The titles of the seven symposia were Ambient Intelligence for Health and Cognitive Enhancement, Applied Computational Game Theory, Foundations of Autonomy and Its (Cyber) Threats: From Individuals to Interdependence, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Integrating Symbolic and Neural Approaches, Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, Socio-Technical Behavior Mining: From Data to Decisions, Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect Fit or Overkill? and Turn-Taking and Coordination in Human-Machine Interaction.The highlights of each symposium are presented in this report.
Using Fuzzy Decision Trees and Information Visualization to Study the Effects of Cultural Diversity on Team Planning and Communication
Liu, Yan (Wright State University) | Warren, Rik (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base)
Virtual teams that span multiple geographic and cultural boundaries have become commonplace in numerous organizations due to the competitive advantages they provide in human resources, products, financial means, knowledge sharing and many others. However, the promises of multinational and multicultural (MNMC) distributed teams are accompanied by a number of challenges. Many research studies have suggested that one of the most challenging barriers to the effective implementation of MNMC distributed teams is culture. In this study, data collected from the experiment conducted by the NATO RTO Human Factors and Medicine Panel Research Task Group (HFM-138/RTG) on “Adapatability in Multinational Coalitions” has been analyzed to study the effects of cultural diversity on team planning and communication. Fuzzy decision trees have been derived to model the effects, and information visualization techniques are used to facilitate understanding of the derived classification patterns. Results of the research suggest that there are no single and straightforward conclusions on how cultural diversity affects team planning and communication. Different dimensions of culture values interact in influencing team behaviors. However, diversities in power distance and masculinity seem to play more influential roles than others.