Content management systems use various strategies to store and manage information. One of the most usual methods encountered in commercial products is to make use of the file system to store the raw content information, while the associated metadata is kept synchronized in a relational database management system. This strategy has its advantages but we believe it also has significant limitation...

This article describes NeoSite: a content management system that facilitates clear separation between content, logic and design. The system has a modular architecture and it’s user interface is modeled (customized) using XML. The content is represented as a tree, whose nodes are called “datacells”. The definition of a datacell is composed from: a list of attributes, the relationship specificati...

The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) is new authoring software designed to support collaborative, activity-driven learning. This paper reports on a pilot study of the implementation of LAMS in different disciplines at University level and in different grades and subjects at Australian schools. The results suggest that LAMS is an extraordinarily adaptable system that can be used effect...

However, ask any group of web-site managers or IT staffs, and they will tell you – after investing in applications and services over the past few years – that they still often find themselves drowning in the mass of critical supporting content that lies beneath everything they are doing online. Just like what the chart shows below (CHART 1.01), as the volume of digital data/content and the comp...

Smart beta products are a disruptive financial innovation with the potential to significantly affect the business of traditional active management. They provide an important component of active management via simple, transparent, rules-based portfolios delivered at lower fees. They clarify that what investors need from their active managers is pure alpha—returns beyond those from static exposur...

The separation of content, layout, structure and view that is enforced by the various emerging content management systems and web modelling tools, renders the implementation of suitable editors for content providers very difficult. As most of these systems work on the basis of XML and XSLT and support multiple languages and presentation channels, creating and editing content has become more ted...

Workflow management systems are now widely deployed for handling administrative and production applications. In order that the workflow management systems keep supporting a larger range of applications, several research works have been launched to improve the workflow technology. This paper reports on the CORVETTE [1] project, an experiment in developing a cooperative workflow management system...

The paper introduces a novel architecture to be used in IMS (IP Multimedia Sub-system) context. Thanks to the use of a MCMS (Multimedia Content Management System) along with interoperable components, the proposed solution enables an efficient adaptation of services according to the Perceived Quality of Service degradation at the end-user side.

In order to reach the targets for connection of renewable energy resources to distribution networks, new control and management approaches are needed. In this paper, solutions are presented for significantly increasing the connection of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), without over-investment in network infrastructure. A Distribution Management System (DMS) provides coordinated centralised o...

If the number of users within a workflow management system (WFMS) increases, a central workflow server (WF– server) and a single local area network (LAN) may become overloaded. The approach presented in this paper describes an execution environment which is able to manage a growing number of users by adding new servers and subnets. The basic idea is to decompose processes into parts which are c...