WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet
2000
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 328
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TopBlend: An Efficient Implementation of HtmlDiff in Java
Yih-Farn Chen, Fred Douglis, Huale Huang & Kiem-Pong Vo, AT&T Labs, United States
The World Wide Web is growing rapidly with new and changing web content. Detecting changes in web pages is crucial for website masters who care about website integrity. It is also convenient for ... More
pp. 88-94
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Collaborative Concept Mapping Processes Mediated by Computer
Chiu-Hui Chiu, Wei-Shuo Wu & Chun-Chieh Huang, National Tainan Teachers College, Taiwan
This paper is a report on a study, which investigated group learning processes in computer supported collaborative concept mapping. Thirty 5th grade Taiwanese students were selected to attend a... More
pp. 95-100
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The Strategic Information Audit as a Front-end to the Development of a Large-scale Web Accessible Information System
Edwin Cortez, University of Wisconsin, United States; Edward Kazlauskas, University of Southern California, United States
This paper reports on the on-going development associated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's effort to build a comprehensive, high performance, web-based knowledge system know as the... More
pp. 101-105
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Human-Computer Interaction in Educational Multimedia: Then and Now
Martha E. Crosby, E. Barbara Klemm & Marie K. Iding, University of Hawaii, United States
This paper provides an historical examination of developments from human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer based instruction (CBI) in order to provide insight into present views of... More
pp. 106-110
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Dinopolis - A Leading Edge Application Framework for the Internet and Intranets
Christof Dallermassl, Heimo Haub, Hermann Maurer, Klaus Schmaranz & Philipp Zambelli, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Dinopolis is at the moment the most universal and extendable application frame- work available. It is fully written in Java and fully compliant to today's application standards like Corba, RMI,... More
pp. 111-116
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Making General-Purpose Adaptive Hypermedia Work
Paul De Bra, Ad Aerts, Geert-Jan Houben & Hongjing Wu, Eindhoven University of Technology
Adaptive hypermedia systems (AHS) have typically been geared towards one specific application or application area, in most cases related to education. The AHA (Adaptive Hyper-media Architecture) ... More
pp. 117-123
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Online Knowledge Communities
Sjoerd de Vries, Paul Bloemen & Lonneke Roossink, University of Twente
This paper describes the concept of Online Knowledge Communities. We define this concept and compare this type of communities to others. In addition, we present four guidelines for the design of ... More
pp. 124-129
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Attribute-Oriented Programming: A New Method for Building Personal Agents
Peter Doemel, WebAgents, Germany
To enable computer literate people who don't know how to program in a "usual" programming language to build their own personal software agents, a new method of composing software agents is... More
pp. 130-135
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A Meta-data Driven Approach toSearching for Educational Resources in a Global Context
Paul Doherty & Vincent Wade, Trinity College, Ireland
As more and more educational services (e.g. on-line courses) and learning resources become available on the Internet today, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify those services or resources... More
pp. 136-145
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CoFIND: steps towards a self-organising learning environment
Jon Dron, Phil Siviter, Chris Boyne & Richard Mitchell, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
This paper reports on the ongoing development of CoFIND (Collaborative Filter in N Dimensions), a web-based system designed to form the basis of a self-organising learning environment, where... More
pp. 146-151
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Collaborative Parallel Prototyping for Web Site Design Using PICTIVE
Lynne Dunckley & David Morse, The Open University, United Kingdom
The paper describes the development of an organisational Web site through a collaborative design process. The design process applied the PICTIVE technique for low-tech prototyping in an innovative ... More
pp. 152-157
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Extending IOS’s Collaboration via Web-Enabled Whiteboards
Christopher Egert, Mary Flanagan & Deborah Walters, University at Buffalo, United States
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the development of a web-based asynchronous whiteboard system used as part of an online collaborative system. The whiteboard system has been designed to... More
pp. 158-161
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A Quality Assurance Methodology for Technology-Delivered Education and Training
John Eklund, Access OnLine Pty Ltd, Australia; David Lowe, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
In a climate of increased deployment of information technologies for the flexible delivery of instruction in both the higher education and private sectors, procedures for ensuring a quality outcome... More
pp. 162-169
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Hands-on Science Centres around the World: How do they rate in their use of the Web?
Allan Ellis & Karey Patterson, Southern Cross University, Australia
Throughout the developed world there exist many Science Centres that aim to introduce people of all ages to Science and Technology. These Centres have as their brief the promotion of a greater... More
pp. 170-175
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Design and Deployment Decisions within an E-Commerce Environment
John D. Ferguson, James Miller & George R.S. Weir, Strathclyde University, United Kingdom
E-commerce is opening new markets as well as extending existing business practices. It includes such diverse activities as electronic trading of goods and services, on-line delivery of digital... More
pp. 176-180
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Using Multimedia Courseware to Bring Together Theory and Practice
Mary Flanagan, Concordia University, Canada
This paper describes the implementation, use, and evaluation of courses utilizing multimedia courseware to bring theory and practice together as a pedagogical strategy. In particular, we will... More
pp. 181-186
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Interfacing Differently: Educating Girls in a Changing Digital Landscape
Mary Flanagan, Concordia University, Canada
Girls keep up with boys when it comes to using computers for activities like surfing the Internet and sending e-mail (Cook 2000). But girls are underrepresented in growing areas such as computer ... More
pp. 187-192
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A Visualization System using Data Mining Techniques for Identifying Information Sources
Richard Fowler, Tarkan Karadayi, Zhiaxiang Chen, Xiannong Meng & Wendy LawrenceFowler, University of Texas - Pan American, United States
The World Wide Web provides great opportunities for serving as a repository of knowledge, yet presents great challenges in accessing this knowledge. Limitations of current search technologies are... More
pp. 193-198
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Cecil: An Enterprise Wide and Beyond Education Delivery System. Enticing the End-User – Reflections from Auckland, New Zealand.
Lesley Gardner & Donald Sheridan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Computer Supported Learning (CSL), or Cecil as we like to call it, is a university wide education delivery mechanism that supports the teaching, learning and administration delivery needs for the... More
pp. 199-204
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Designing an Adaptive Web-based Training System
John Garofalakis, Aspasia Kanta, Christos Makris, Jim Prentzas & John Tsaknakis, University of Patras, Greece
In this paper, we present the design of a Web-based system for training on Internet technologies. The system will contain a variety of courses starting from introductory topics addressed to... More
pp. 205-210