In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a novel web portal for the cancer phase I clinical trial design method Escalation with Overdose Control (EWOC). The web portal has two major components: a web-based dose finding calculator; and a standalone and downloadable dose finding software which can be installed on Windows operating systems. The web-based dose finding calculator u...

Community web portals serve as portals for the information needs of particular communities on the web. We here discuss how a comprehensive and exible strategy for building and maintaining a high-value community web portal has been conceived and implemented. The strategy includes collaborative information provisioning by the community members. It is based on an ontology as a semantic backbone fo...

Due to the problem of information overload, locating relevant Web portals precisely based on user requirements is quite an essential task. As the need for application-to-application communication and interoperability grows, providing Web portal services that satisfy human as well as machine requirements is becoming a new challenge for Web portals. However, a Web portal capability expressing mec...

Current Web applications provide their information and functionalities to human users only. To make Web applications also accessible for machines, the Semantic Web proposes an extension of the current Web, that describes the semantics of the content and the services explicitly with machine-processable meta-data. In this paper we introduce an architecture of a Semantic Portal that provides a uni...

WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) is a promising web services specification used to standardise presentation-based access to remote web portal content. In combination with the JSR 168 standard, portlet developers are freed of doing the hard work in publishing their portlets to remote portal – ideally it is the duty of portal framework to publish the portlets it manages. Code-reusability c...

The paper describes a methodological approach to design and develop a semantic portal by retrieving unstructured information from different Web sites on the Net. Such a method is applied to the International Space Station (ISS) knowledge domain, but it proves to be quite general and domain independent. The development of a domain specific ontology, on which the semantic portal is based, allows ...

Application integration via web portals is the most widely used and least expensive means for integrating enterprise applications and services. Component-based portals enable the composition of web pages from reusable portal components, where each component represents an independent application or service. This integration is often limited to components displayed on the same web page, to local ...

The main purpose of existing Web portals is to promote information sharing over the Internet. In this paper we present the design and implementation of a science portal, the Natural Organic Matter research portal, which is not only for information sharing but also provides tools to allow scientists to share remote computational resources and do science on the Web. An XML-based Markup Language, ...

BACKGROUND Providing insight into the developmental processes involved in building interventions is an important way to ensure methodological transparency and inform future research efforts. The objective of this study was to describe the development of a web portal designed to improve health literacy skills among the public. METHODS The web portal was tailored to address three key barriers t...