Taking into account the constantly increasing number of educational resources available on the Web, the problem arising is to determine who is authorized to access these resources and under which conditions. This problem is addressed by using Digital Rights information, namely information about the rights concerning digital intellectual property. This paper presents the EDMiR web-based environm...

In using web search engines, there are cases where the name of the target object is unavailable, and the user can only give the visual descriptions of the object. The existing keyword-based search engines have limited capabilities under such situations. In the real-space oriented search engines also, there are often cases where the user wants to search using the visual characteristics of the ob...

There are several Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool registries that support educators when searching ICT tools for their classrooms. A common problem in these registries is how their data is sustained, since educational descriptions of ICT tools are hard to create and maintain updated. This paper proposes SEEKAT-WD, an infrastructure that aims at sustaining an educational ICT ...

The Web allows self-navigated education through interaction with large amounts of Web resources. While enjoying the flexibility of Web tools, authors may suffer from research and filtering Web resources, when they face various resources formats and complex structures. An adaptation of extracted Web resources must be assured by authors, to give reliability, satisfaction of learners and content q...

This paper shows the main character istics of Ar tificial intelligence planner which is par t of INDIGO system’s proposal, a planning system for OWL­S Web services composition. This system allows constructing on incremental way within Semantic Web an OWL­S Web services composition plan which can be executed on concur rent way dur ing its composition. The characte...

Readability indices measure how easy or difficult it is to read and comprehend a text. In this paper we look at the relation between readability indices and web documents from two different perspectives. On the one hand we analyse how to reliably measure the readability of web documents by applying content extraction techniques and incorporating a bias correction. On the other hand we investiga...

The World-Wide Web was first developed as a tool for collaboration in the high energy physics community. From there it spread rapidly to other fields, and grew to its present impressive size. As an easy way to access information, it has been a great success, and a huge number of medical applications have taken advantage of it. But there is another side to the Web, its potential as a tool for co...

This paper describes a Web-based system designed to allow GPs to implement and adapt clinical guidelines for the management of type II Diabetes Mellitus under the specialist's supervision; the system will be tested in the Pavia area, Italy, with the collaboration of the Fondazione Maugeri Hospital. Introduction and Background In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the definition ...