Older adults often assist one another in using digital technology and tend to prefer assistance provided at home. However, research has yet examine how life partners this age group support technology. We interviewed 50 older representing 25 couples five countries about their sources of when the Internet. Partner was more common than existing literature suggests motivated by in-home convenience,...

User interface design and development for Rich Internet applications is a difficult task with actual tools. The designers must be aware of the computing platform, the user's characteristics (education, social background, among others) and the environment within users must interact with the application. Several model based technologies have been proposed and in this study we review a XML-complia...

As we enter the 21st century, our dependency on the Internet is going to increase each day. This observation has inspired many researchers to invest their efforts into the development of efficient Web-based computing paradigms. JavaRMI is one alternative offered by Sun Microsystems. Using Java-RMI, a software developer can easily design and develop collaborative systems. In this article, we des...

Peer-to-peer systems are evolving as a viable distributed resource sharing paradigm on the Internet. The trend is growing towards the usage of such decentralized systems because they are more scalable and resource efficient than centralized systems. Current decentralized systems, like peer-to-peer networks, lack functionality to adapt the transmission of certain information artifacts, according...

In recent years, web development is the most important application in internet. Caching related technique improves the web server performance significantly. However, existing caching schemes cannot deal with the dynamic web pages efficiently. Thus, in this paper, we propose a caching scheme and then use web session objects and database-related dynamic web cache to implement the dynamic web cach...

The project of interconnecting CATV in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan has started since March, 1998. In this project, there are three CATV companies in Hanshin area; Kobe, Nishinomiya and Amagasaki. An ATM switch is equipped in each company and these CATVs are connected serially in the above order. Each company provides the video service to the rest of companies using the MPEG2 over ATM. In the servic...

dependency parsing is a way of syntactic parsing and a natural language that automatically analyzes the dependency structure of sentences, and the input for each sentence creates a dependency graph. part-of-speech (pos) tagging is a prerequisite for dependency parsing. generally, dependency parsers do the pos tagging task along with dependency parsing in a pipeline mode. unfortunately, in pipel...

Given a movie comment, does it contain a spoiler? A spoiler is a comment that, when disclosed, would ruin a surprise or reveal an important plot detail. We study automatic methods to detect comments and reviews that contain spoilers and apply them to reviews from the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) website. We develop topic models, based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), but using linguistic...

We present Netgraph— a tool for searching in linguistically annotated treebanks. It works in the Internet environment, on multi–user and client–server basis. Netgraph has a graphically oriented hardware independent user–friendly interface. The query system is very intuitive, easy to learn, understand and use, nevertheless it can perform advanced searches. We show how Netgraph can be used for su...

Researchers are increasingly depending on various centralized resources to access the vast amount of information reported in the literature and generated by systematic sequencing and functional genomics projects. Biological databases have become everyday working tools for many researchers. This dependency goes both ways in that the databases require continuous feedback from the research communi...