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WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet

2000

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Number of papers: 328

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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