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EWG HCP, Human Centered Processes
Last update: 2005-06-09
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Purpose and history
The study of operational strategies and processes used by human beings has been the place where Cognitive Science and more traditional approaches recently met, and has led to the concept of Human Centered Designs and Technologies. Such a movement is an important challenge for both scientists and firms concerned by human beings in a workday context because the complementarity of cognitive and traditional approaches provide a great number of additional dimensions that allow the design and analysis of more complete and complex systems.
This group is concerned with analysis and modelling of advanced manufacturing, information, or action systems which are strongly dependant on a balanced integration between human and computer skills: collaborative working, cooperation, user adapted interaction. Its activities will be supported both by industrial fields and by scientific research in cognitive sciences and operational research, as well as mathematical and computer modelling.
Several kinds of systems and processes will be considered: production systems, information systems, action systems. A special challenge is the multiple bind between systems and users, systems and systems, and users and users: this raise the question of how a system (resp. a human user) can recognize a human user (resp. a system) and adapt it to its/his/her behavior. The actual development of communication tools (Web, Internet, Intranet, Hypermedia tools) involving distributed, shared and multi-modal information makes such questions very relevant from social and technical points of view.
As a consequence, the HCP group will be pluri-disciplinary and application oriented. It will be mainly concerned with the study of operational strategies and processes. Embodied in the broad domain of information sciences, it will be more concerned with semantics and qualitative aspects than by digital and quantitative ones.
In 1992, the European Communities have elaborated the notion of Anthropocentric Production Systems and proposed a number of actions to account for the place of human operators in complex industrial production systems.
In September 1994, the First European Conference on Cognitive Science in Industry was held in Luxembourg. This conference was the initiating step towards an European Brite-Euram project COMAPS (Cognitive Management of Anthropocentric Production Systems, BE 96 - 3941) that ran from 1997 to 1999. This program was the first to be explicitly devoted to the taking into account of human and cognitive factors within production systems. It involved four firms and three academic partners.
In September 1999, the first Human Centered Processes conference "HCP'99" was held in Brest, France (which had the status of a Mini EURO Conference). The purpose of this conference was to gather Operational Researchers interested in discussing human centered approaches applied to complex industrial problems, industrialists faced with questions related to cognition, and researchers who are expert in Cognitive Science. More than 20 different countries were represented in the conference. Proceedings of HCP'99 are available (Human Centered Processes, 1999, Philippe Lenca (editor), Espace Edition ENST-Bretagne, ENST-Bretagne (France) - Centre de Recherche Public - Centre Universitaire (Luxembourg), Brest (France), September 22-24, 10th Mini EURO Conference), including 79 papers comprising more than 500 pages.
These events and programs have shown that the approach was now mature enough to launch a research initiative at European Level within the EURO framework. The HCP group was officially accepted by EURO during the EURO XVII Conference (Budapest, Hungary) in the year 2000.
Past activities
12th Mini EURO Conference DSS 2002 (Brussels, April, 2-5, 2002): this conference was organised jointly by three EURO Working Groups (DSS, HCP, PROMOTHEUS).
ROADEF 2002, Paris, February 20-22, 2002, Paris: one session on Human Centered Processes and Decision Aiding (3 papers).
14th Mini EURO Conference HCP 2003 (Luxemburg, May, 5-7, 2003): Human centered processes: Distributed decision making and man-machine cooperation. The DSS and Complex Societal Systems Euro Working Groups will be hosted during the conference for their group meeting. There will be about 70 attendees (from 22 different countries) with 48 papers accepted, 3 plenary sessions, and 2 panels dedicated to military applications and to air traffic control.
Future activities
One special issues (EJOR) is still planned to be published in 2005 from the HCP 2003 conference presentations. Review process is achieved.
We shall organize a HCP stream during EURO 2006 in Iceland.
HCP 2007 will be organised as a Mini EURO Conference in Vilnius by Professors Sakalauskas and Zavadskas.
Publications
PhD Dissertations
PhD Thesis: Alexandre Skrzyniarz, Analyse de problèmes de décision distribuée et conception d'heuristiques de résolution. Ph.D dissertation (in French), May 2003, EHESS (Paris, France).
Journals and Proceedings
14th Mini-EURO conference Proceedings, HCP'2003, Human centered Processes, Distributed decision making and man-machine cooperation, R. Bisdorff Editor, May 2003.
IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine, G. Coppin & A. Skrzyniarz, "Human Centered Processes: Individual and Distributed Decision Support", Volume 18, Number 4, July/August 2003.
HCP contribution to special issue of EJOR DSS 2002, "Management of the future, MCDA, dynamic and ethical contribution", (4 papers for the HCP Working Group contribution).
In Cognito (Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives) Special Issue, Human Centered Processes, Volume 1, Number 3, 2003 (Papers selected from HCP'2003 conference).
EJOR, "Management of the future MCDA ; Dynamical and ethical contributions", Volume 153, Number 2, March 2004.
Newsletters
HCP Newsletter 4, June 2004.
Electronic Publications
HCP On-Line bibliography: New on HCP web site, an on-line bibliography dealing with Human Centered Processes is now available. We initiated this new helpful tool for our Group with the HCP99 proceedings and HCP feature issue of EJOR: all HCP99 papers are now available on-line in PDF format, complete bibliography as a single HTML page, and so on.
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