This paper introduces three interactive virtual laboratory modules for undergraduate and graduate level education on the behavior and design of reinforced concrete structures using the World Wide Web (WWW). Users can select and configure module parameters (such as reinforcement) to investigate the design and behavior of a reinforced concrete member or section. 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Compu...

In this study, it was investigated whether, and to what extent, Web 2.0 technologies, actually Weblogs, can be a suitable instrument for enhancing the practice of distributed learning. In educational settings, which are based on traditional lectures many students begin serious study shortly before the exam. However, from previous empirical research, it is known that the practice of distributed ...

The Internet has created a paradigm shift in how we consume and disseminate information. Data nowadays is spread over heterogeneous silos of archived and live data. People willingly share data on social media by posting news, views, presentations, pictures and videos. SNARC is a service that uses semantic web technology and combines services available on the web to aggregate social news. SNARC ...

Web development is promoting important advantages for educational area specially e-learning systems. learning objects (LOs) aim to reuse specific information though different context and platforms. However, an important issue to define is to guarantee the LOs quality content. To evaluate LOs in a first place we propose our own LOs definition. According to this, we suggest to relate LOs metadata...

Focused crawlers are programs that wander in the Web, using its graph structure, and gather pages that belong to a specific topic. The most critical task in Focused Crawling is the scoring of the URLs as it designates the path that the crawler will follow, and thus its effectiveness. In this paper we propose a novel scheme for assigning scores to the URLs, based on the Reinforcement Learning (R...

Personalized rendering of web pages gives the users greater control to view only what they prefer. The goal of this work is to provide a tool that will let users customize the content on the pages. Our proposed model architecture learns user preferences through interaction and eventually learns to block content that is not of interest, or is offensive, to the user. This learning from interactio...

We describe our efforts toward developing infrastructure for shared remote robotics laboratories that allow reproducible robotics experimentation and large scale learning from demonstration (LfD). Our goal is to create a facility where users demonstrate desired tasks by teleoperating robot platforms through video-game style web-based interfaces, providing data that LfD approaches will turn into...