Working with ‘real-world’ problems is at the centre of the RAMESES research project which focuses on Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In designing the study care had to be taken to ensure the relevance of the research techniques to be used.. This paper outlines the benefits of using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods within the bounds of a multi-disciplinary research...

—We describe an ongoing project building a system that consists of tools and services for supporting Cyberinfrastructure based scientific research. This system, called the Semantic Research Grid (SRG), integrates a number of existing online research tools (social bookmarking, academic search, scientific databases, journal and conference content management systems) and aims to develop added-valu...

This paper proposes a document logistics approach for cooperative research based on the Web and Knowledge Grid. The approach realizes effective research document collection, organization and provision as well as knowledge sharing by incorporating the following functions: construction of semantic profiles representing interests, continuous discovery and collection of potentially relevant documen...

The increasing prevalence of multimedia and research data generated by scientific work affords an opportunity to reformulate the idea of a scientific article from the traditional static document, or even one with links to supplemental material in remote databases, to a self-contained, multimedia-rich interactive publication. This paper describes our concept of such a document, and the design of...