There exists a lack of detailed empirical studies to assess the relevance of WebMapping applications. Despite this fact, it is quite common to note that importance and influence of WebMapping applications have increased over the last years. This paper presents the result of an empirical study to analyze the importance of a Desktop-WebMapping application for a gastronomic web 2.0 portal for the ...

Grid-enabled portals are popular as a means to create web-accessible problem-solving environments (PSEs) that allow scientists to access distributed resources, and to monitor and execute distributed Grid applications from a Web browser. In this paper, we describe a web-based portal, based on GridSphere portlets, that deploys services for discovery and management of distributed resources, and fo...

The Organic.Edunet Web portal is a multilingual federation of educational repositories, developed in order to enhance the availability and retrieval of quality educational resources about Organic Agriculture (OA) and Agroecology (AE). This paper presents the results of an online survey that took place from March to August 2010 in order to evaluate the user satisfaction from the Organic.Edunet W...

In this paper, we address the problem of integrating Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and G-Portal, a web-based digital library, in the geography domain. The integration facilitates the sharing of data and services between the two web applications that are of great value in learning. We first present an overall system architecture for supporting such an integration and address the metadata ex...

We propose a methodology to monitor the quality of the meta-data used to describe content in web portals. It is based on the analysis of the meta-data using statistics, visualization and data mining tools. The methodology enables the site’s editor to detect and correct problems in the description of contents, thus improving the quality of the web portal and the satisfaction of its users. We als...

Paper presents a Web-based Personal Health System (PHS) for remote monitoring of ECG signals. It presents a multi-tiered architecture for building PHS and integrating them with enterprise and health information systems. Tiers encompass Body Area Network (BAN) with medical sensors, Personal Server and/or Home gateway, Medical servers and Web Portal. A use case scenario for remote ECG monitoring ...

s: This article aims to discuss the process of development and improvement of a community web portal from the perspective of references such as social capital, solidary technology, local development and community organizing. As a case study we used the Cidade de Deus web portal (www.cidadededeus.org.br), result of a project of the Technical Solidarity Lab (Soltec / UFRJ) with community-based or...

The ability to send and retrieve information over the Web using traditional and ubiquitous computing methods has changed the way we work and live. Web portals, as content aggregators, act as gateways to pertinent and upto-date information. Social networking portals are a recent development, allowing a user to create and maintain a network of close friends or business associates for social and/o...

In this paper, we study the voice portal services in packet network and VoIP environment. An extensible VoIPTeleserver for VoIP in SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) environment is described. It is based on the concept of dialogue system and web convergence that separates the channel dependent media resources from the application creation environment. It supports XML based service applications f...

We present BEEM — BEnchmarks for Explicit Model checkers. This benchmark set includes more than 50 models together with correctness properties (both safety and liveness). The benchmark set is accompanied by an comprehensive web portal, which provides detailed information about all models. The web portal also includes information about state spaces and facilities selection of models for experime...