The workshop “Web Infrastructure for Collaborative Applications” at WETICE’96 brought together 37 attendees from academia and industry. 14 selected papers were presented in the sessions named “Case Studies”, “Tools, Methods, Techniques”, “Application Requirements”, and “Collaborative Engineering”. A final discussion session and the collaborative effort of all participants to produce a summary o...

Two types of networks are considered with special interest for e-learning environments: social and collaborative networks. There is no consensus about the frontiers dividing the two types, though a set of common interrelated characteristics is found during any learning experience, such as social identity, interaction and empowerment. These and other characteristics may greatly influence the e-l...

Wiki technology provides new opportunities to foster collaborative learning in various educational settings. To empirically examine the impact of wikis on learning, this article explores students’ collaborative writing activities performed on MediaWiki. The activities were analyzed using a taxonomy with ten categories (clarify content, add content, delete content, add link, delete link, fix lin...

There has been a growing trend toward collaborative environments especially those utilizing browser-based interfaces which can be seen in modeling tools such as AToMPM and WebGME. In response to the growing interest in collaborative modeling, we explored existing systems and potential solutions to identify the various features relevant to collaborative modeling systems. In this paper, we detail...

There is a boost in the interest on ontology with the developments in Semantic Web technologies. Ontologies play a vital role in semantic web. Even though there is lot of work done on ontology, still a standard framework for ontology engineering has not been defined. Even though current ontology engineering methodologies are available they need improvements. The effort of our work is to integra...

R ealization that online communities result in "stickier" E-business relationships is spurring new developments in related collaborative technology platforms. Recent developments in WWW-based collaborative technologies are being heralded as the enablers of the knowledge based E-business enterprises. Research and practice on collaborative technologies for enabling these E-business models can ben...

This paper focuses on analyzing the impact of collaborative technologies on firm performance. Nonetheless, the methodology used analyzes the influence of collaborative technologies not directly but through an intermediary variable. This variable represents different intranet use orientations (e-information, e-communication and e-transaction). To achieve these objectives, a sample comprising 310...

This position paper presents work in progress (within the first year) of the doctoral research into adoption of social collaborative e-learning in higher education. The research coins three concepts which intersect to form the fourth, social collaborative e-learning. These concepts are: informal learning, social networking and learning management. This paper explores the conceptual and theoreti...

Verpleging het uit ’n maatskaplike behoefte aan sorg vir siekes ontstaan. Verskeie groepe en individue het deur die eeue heen ’n verreikende invloed op die ontwikkeling van verpleging gehad en dit uitgebou tot die professie wat ons vandag ken. In die moderne wêreld oefen veral ontwikkeling in tegnologie ’n groot invloed uit — vergelyk byvoorbeeld die toekomstige rol van rekenarisering op gesond...