The Web has evolved in the last decade from a mean to distribute content with marginal interest to a major communication media, where critical content and services are delivered to the users. This success was mainly driven by the concerns of content providers about the user-perceived performance of content delivery. When high availability, scalability, and performance are required, a common sol...

Im Rahmen der Semantic Web Initiative des W3C sind in jüngster Vergangenheit die RDF-basierten Standards RDFS und OWL verabschiedet worden, die als Wissensrepräsentationssprachen gemäß dem Ontologie-Paradigma im Web fungieren. Aufbauend auf diesen Technologien wird in dieser Arbeit gezeigt, wie im Zusammenspiel mit einem Ontologie-Editor die Grundlage für ein wissensbasiertes Web Content Manage...

This article discusses the application of the established principles of instructed language learning in a cyber factto-face environment supported by an advanced Synchronous Learning Management System (SLMS). Following a critical review of the use of SLMS in distance language learning, the main body of the article focuses on the discussion of results from an empirical study, in reference to the ...

The evaluation of institutional condition is regarded as a crucial factor in creating effective and efficient records management systems. In addition, as part of program development studies, national and international programs’ best practices and guidelines need to be investigated. In this study, the Records Management Capacity Assessment System (RMCAS) is evaluated and some practical examples ...

In this paper, an architecture for communication support for collaborative applications is described. The motivation for the design of this architecture is the observation that generic support for group communications is an area which received not much attention until now. The design is based on two components, a group management system (GMS) and group communication support (GCS). The GMS is re...

Am Beispiel eines CSCL-Scripts behandelt dieser Beitrag Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten kollaborativer Lernprozesse in videographischen Lernumgebungen. Das Skript unterstützt Lerngruppen dabei eine Sammlung von Lernvideos semantisch aufzubereiten und mit zeitgenauen Überprüfungsfragen anzureichern. Diese Formen der Peer Annotation und des Peer Assessment wurden in einer Studie mit 32 Studierenden erpr...

In this working paper, the National Institute of Civil Aeronautics of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil – INAC) presents a project to implement safety management system (SMS)/State safety programme (SSP) using an integrated administrative and management system for civil aeronautical safety (AEROSIG), with the intention of providing a useful reference ...

Informatics Education for high schools started in 2003 in Japan. Although it is compulsory, university freshmen in 2006 are expected to have large differences in their computer literacy competency. One of the reasons for this is that many teachers have no technical knowledge of Informatics because they were licensed by taking only ninety hours of training during their summer vacation. It is nec...

In this demo we present a data mining application, called E-learning Web Miner (ElWM), which aims to help instructors involved in distance education to discover their students’ behavior profiles and models about how they navigate and work in their virtual courses which are offered in Learning Content Management Systems. The main characteristic is that the users do not require data mining knowle...

This case study introduces a four step approach used by a Singapore small and medium enterprise (SME) in implementing a cloud computing based integrated management system (IMS) to meet ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 certification requirements. The objectives of this case study are to study: (1) the challenges encountered by an SME during the IMS integration process at each of the four lev...