Building a workflow management system (WFMS) is a large project. However, with the development of grid technology, it becomes easily to do that. In Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), everything is a service. Thus, a workflow management system can be easily built upon a set of services. Some workflow management services and important components are proposed in this paper. And the definition ...

Web resources in Latin American higher education institutions have been reported to show a much stronger emphasis on Information than on Communication. A Course Management System (CMS), according to Social Constructivism framework, is an opportunity for fostering learning through interaction in a virtual environment for learning; hence, stimulating the use of a CMS for communication purposes se...

Der Beitrag beschreibt die Möglichkeiten einer integrierenden Nutzung von Wissensmanagement-Systemen und E-Learning-Anwendungen. Hierzu werden die grundlegenden Merkmale beider Technologien dargestellt. Anhand dieser Charakteristika und den Bausteinen des Wissensmanagement werden Vorteile einer integrierten E-Learningund Wissensmanagement-Umgebung diskutiert. Das Knowledge Content Management Sy...

The Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Laboratory is a world leader in the analysis of walking disorders in children. Using state of the art equipment, highly specialised staff are able to determine why children walk the way they do. Knowing this, it is then possible to plan treatment individually for each child. Gait Lab aims to make thorough and reliable measurements of children’s walking ability ...

One of the unique characteristics of the Key Stone Project VLBI system is its design for automation. The observation system is highly automated and frequent geodetic VLBI experiments can be performed without the need for human operations. The observation system is designed so that anybody can operate the system with a minimal amount of training. This paper gives an overview of the system and it...

In the face of a more rapid pace of scientific development, academic societies and competitive organizations alike are seeking new methods for content analysis. This paper describes a theoretically driven action research study that delivers a technology-mediated solution for specifying, organizing, representing and using elements of meaning in a body of knowledge. The theoretical basis, 'ontolo...

The Légilocal project aims to help local authorities to improve the quality, interoperability and publication of French local administrative acts in the same way as Légifrance does at the state and EU level. The originality of the approach is to unify the management of contents and the interactions between actors on these contents. The Légilocal platform combines various tools (content manageme...

Organizational culture represents a key success factor in highly competitive environments, such as, the IT sector. Thus, IT companies need to understand what makes up a culture that fosters employee performance. While existing research typically uses self-report questionnaires to study the relation of culture and the success of companies, the validity of this approach is often discussed and res...

Information on water quality, in particular on sediment, phosphorus and nitrogen exports from catchments, is required by catchment managers and other stakeholder groups to determine appropriate management options for water quality issues. However intensive spatial and temporal data on concentrations or loads of these nutrients is relatively scarce. Given this constraint, nutrient export models ...

The Wireless Internet Collaboration System allows wireless smartphones to be used for mathematics communication, that is, for the creation and exchange of mathematical formulas, diagrams, and text between two or more participants. The system solves the problem of providing the expressive power of mathematical notation on devices with limited input, output, and processing capabilities. The syste...