WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet
2000
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 328
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CardioSurgery: An Environment to Support Surgical Planning and Follow-up in Cardiology
Catarina Rocha, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mariella Montoni & Luiz Claudio Sampaio, Unit of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Brazil; Kathia Oliveira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Alvaro Rabelo Jr, Unit of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Brazil
In a Medical School the education of future experts is carried out taking into account the theoretical aspects of the specialty and medical practice. For medical practice an important aspect of... More
pp. 459-463
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Models for User Access Patterns on the Web: Semantic Content versus Access History
Arun Ross, Charles Owen & Aditya Vailaya, Michigan State University, United States
This work focuses on clustering a site into groups of documents that are predictive of future user accesses. Two approaches have been developed and tested. The first approach uses semantic... More
pp. 464-469
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A Search-Engine-Topology to Improve Document Retrieval on the Web
Uwe Roth, Andreas Heuer, Ernst-Georg Haffner & Christoph Meinel, Institut of Telematics, Germany
Nowadays, search-engines are the only reasonable solution for searching and finding data on the Internet. Search-engines are confronted, though, with four major problems: The Internet is growing ... More
pp. 470-475
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Organizing Information for the Canadian Design Engineering Network
Filippo Salustri, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada
The author reports on a universal searchable index of Web resources for design engineering. The project is part of the Web site for the Canadian Design Engineering Network (CDEN), a recently funded... More
pp. 476-481
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CADAL Quiz: Providing support for self-managed learning?
Judy Sheard & Angela Carbone, Monash University, Australia
A Web-based multiple choice quiz generator and assessment tool, CADAL Quiz (Computer Aided Dynamic Assessment and Learning Quiz), was developed at Monash University and has been incorporated into... More
pp. 482-488
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Mining the Most Interesting Web Access Associations
Li Shen, Ling Cheng, James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Vasileios Megalooikonomou & Tilmann Steinberg, Dartmouth College, United States
Web access patterns can provide valuable information for website designers in making website-based communication more efficient. To extract interesting or useful web access patterns, we use data ... More
pp. 489-494
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Nine Keys to a Knowledge Infrastructure: A Proposed Analytic Framework for Organizational Knowledge Management
Yesha Sivan, Klab.com, Israel
The last decade has seen a flood of both theoretical work and practical hands-on efforts in KM. In an effort to bridge theory and practice, this paper proposes one analytic framework for... More
pp. 495-500
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Enabling Conditions for Organisational Knowledge Creation
Dick Stenmark, Volvo IT / Viktoria Institute, Sweden
Intranet tools for knowledge management are becoming increasingly popular. In this paper, I argue that intranets are indeed particularly suitable for supporting and facilitating corporate... More
pp. 501-506
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Defining a flexible methodology for supporting generation of structured hypermedia content in the Web
Georgios Styliaras, Georgios Kalamaras & Theodore Papatheodorou, University of Patras, Greece
We deal with the problem of structured hypermedia content generation in the Web. More specifically, we focus on content that analyzes a certain thematic topic. We re-view existing methodologies... More
pp. 507-512
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Course Design Factors Influencing the Success of Online Learning
Karen Swan, University at Albany, United States; Peter Shea, Eric Fredericksen & Alexandra Pickett, SUNY Learning Network, United States; Greg Maher, University at Albany, United States
This paper looks at factors affecting the success of asynchronous online learning through an investigation of relationships between student perceptions and course design factors in one of the... More
pp. 513-518
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XML-based Event Notification System for Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environment
JinHyun Tak, Inha Univ.; Seihoon Lee, Inha Technical College; ChangJong Wang, Inha Univ.
In this paper, we propose XML based event notification system in distributed virtual environments. The proposed system imports a notifier model of which event receivers can add and remove... More
pp. 519-523
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Creating corporate knowledge with the PADDLE system
Andreas Kussmaul & Klaus Tochtermann, FAW, Germany; David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
The integration of dispersed knowledge available in an organization is often referred to as corporate knowledge. The corporate knowledge of an organization can be built up, shared and maintained ... More
pp. 524-529
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Enhancing Information Portals with Internet-based GIS
Klaus Tochtermann, Center for knowledge-based applications and systems, Austria; Susanne Schwartz, Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Germany
The advancement of Internet technologies and geographical information systems (GIS) have opened up new opportunities for the application of Internet-based GIS in the context of information and... More
pp. 530-536
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MPML: A Multimodal Presentation Markup Language with Character Agent Control Functions
Takayuki Tsutsui, Santi Saeyor & Mitsuru Ishizuka, The University of Tokyo, Japan
As a new style of effective information presentations and a new multimodal information content production on the World Wide Web (WWW), multimodal presentation using interactive life-like agents... More
pp. 537-543
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Development of conceptual models for Internet search: A case study
Lorna Uden, Stephen Tearne & Albert Alderson, Staffordshire University, England, United Kingdom
Using the Internet to search for information is frustrating for novices. Either nothing is found or most of the retrieved information is not relevant. To help overcome this we have developed a... More
pp. 544-549
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Examia: A Course Management Environment for the Web
Antonio Vantaggiato, Examia & Sacred Heart University, Puerto Rico
Examia is a website that provides instructors with a free environment to create and manage courses, and students with a rich on-line experience. Examia features cooperative document creation and ... More
pp. 550-556
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Web-Support for Activating Use of Theory in Group-Based Learning
Jan van der Veen, Maarten van Riemsdijk, Eelco Laagland, Lisa Gommer & Val Jones, University of Twente
This paper describes a series of experiments conducted within the context of a course on organisational theory which is taught at the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Twente. ... More
pp. 557-562
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Designing a Web-based Distance Learning Environment based on an Intelligent Tutoring System
Lucian Voinea, Codrin Zolti & Gabriel Dima, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania; Ion Miu, IBM Global Services, Romania; Marcel Profirescu, University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania
This paper describes a distributed approach towards designing an Intelligent Tutoring System for the WWW. This approach was implemented in the EDIT Learning Environment and is defined by several ... More
pp. 563-568
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An automated Evaluation Service for Educational Courseware
Vincent Wade, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Mary Lyng, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
The World Wide Web (WWW) has been heralded as a significant opportunity to deliver successful tele-educational courseware and learning experiences. Because of its ease of use, the WWW has caught ... More
pp. 569-574
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Managing Educational Web-Dependence
George Weir, John Ferguson & James Miller, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
The increasing trend toward reliance on Web-sourced materials in education creates a number of potential difficulties for students and teachers. We identify three key risk areas that impact on... More
pp. 575-580