Digital reference services support informal learning, and integrate it with formal education. Such can promote the literacy of K-12 students by cultivating children’s desires to learn outside classroom. Yet few school libraries offer digital students. This paper describes use formal,curriculum reflective, that were used school, children who seeking answers while pursuing learning. Findings conc...

This Chapter describes an infrastructure for multi-modal perceptual systems which aims at developing and realizing computer services that are delivered to humans in an implicit and unobtrusive way. The framework presented here supports the implementation of humancentric context-aware applications providing non-obtrusive assistance to participants in events such as meetings, lectures, conference...

The integration of communication and computation technologies, the availability of pocket mobile computers, and the widespread penetration of mobile radio access networks will enable a range of new context-aware mobile services to be offered to the users. Research on methods and technologies for the development of such services requires the involvement of experts in several technological domain...

Introduction. In recent years, the introduction of social question and answer services and other Internet tools have expanded the ways in which people have their questions answered. There has been speculation and debate over whether such services and other Internet tools are replacing library virtual reference services. Method. Most previous research on the comparison between social question an...

The realisation of e-Government services, in particular in Switzerland, has made limited progress. This is due – on the one hand – to the federal constitution of the Swiss Confederation. On the other hand, public administrations are concerned about the high initial effort and the corresponding financial investments. With the OntoGov system, reference process models are provided at various abstr...

Wireless Internet services such as mobile Web applications promise an enormous market potential. The field is characterized by extreme time-to-market pressure and insufficient knowledge about development procedures and technical constraints. This results in insufficient guidance for project managers and software developers on selecting appropriate development processes, techniques, methods and ...

today, the scientific communications are developed and expanded on the internet and the famous world wide web service, and the popularity of the electronic scientific databases (esds) such as sciencedirect, google scholar, and scopus is an evidence of this claim. in addition to providing scientific contents, the esds offer researchers diverse scientific web services such as scientific communica...

Modelling life events is a task of a crucial importance and a first necessary step towards supporting resolution of a particular life event on the active e-government portal. The use of reference models as templates for building life-event models promises savings in time and costs of the modelling process. At the same time, using reference models can increase the quality and accuracy of the est...