In Japanese culture, your meishi conveys your place in the company, even in society, as well as your name, phone number, and email address. That is to say, in Japan, business cards matter. They convey complex metadata about the people who carry them. Like people, Web pages come in an abundance of shapes and sizes (and sounds). What makes them machine interpretable—and therefore a new medium for...

Tim Berners-Lee developed, in 1989, the basic tools required by the Web as we currently know it: the Hypertext Markup Language – HTML; the Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP; and a system for locating objects on the Web, the Universal Resource Locator – URL. Twelve years later1, with a fully functional Web, Berners-Lee published an original article, with the challenging proposal of a “Semantic ...

Web-based instruction is prevalent in educational settings. However, many issues still remain to be investigated. In particular, it is still open about how human factors influence learners’ performance and perception in Web-based instruction. In this vein, the study presented in this chapter investigates this issue in a Web-based instructional program, which was applied to teach students how to...

Zusammenfassung Die in einem datenbank-orientierten Format vorliegenden Substanzen der Reihe Chronik des 20. Jahrhunderts des Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlags werden automatisch in eine SGML/XML-basierte Annotation und daraufhin in die Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) transformiert. Für diese Aufgabe wurden verschiedene Werkzeuge implementiert, die die Rapid Prototyping-Möglichkeiten des Betriebssys...

Roaming services allow users that have a contract with a voice service provider to use access resources owned by other providers known as internet access providers. This draft proposes a tokenbased Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) and billing model for roaming users supporting the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It also introduces a protocol solution for the proposed model tha...

The creation of hypertext and World Wide Web provided a powerful mechanism for organizing and distributing the warehouse of information. However, video-based hypermedia may represent the future of the Internet since it provides a much better viewing experience. Our ongoing project the Video Annotation Markup Language (VAML) aims to enhance the hypervideo framework. In this paper, we give a deta...

HTTP Server is a computer programs that serves webpage content to clients. A webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a computer screen. This information is usually in HTML format, and may provide navigation to other webpage’s via hypertext links. WebPages may be retrieved from a local com...

List of papers This thesis is based on the papers listed below, which are referred to in the text by Roman numerals I-V. Neuropeptidomics: MS applied to the discovery of novel peptides from the brain. An automated method for scanning LC-MS data sets for significant peptides and proteins, including quantitative profiling and interactive confirmation. Striatal proteomic analysis suggests that fir...

The metadata schema of a digital archive describes the structure and attributes of metadata. Analysis and definition of metadata schema for a new digital archive must be carefully performed at the first stage. To ease the task, we implement a metadata schema repository to store metadata schemas as Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents in a native XML database. The metadata schema repositor...

The present paper is focused on modeling of statistical data processing with applications in field of material science and engineering. A new method of data processing is presented and applied on a set of 10 Ni–Mn–Ga ferromagnetic ordered shape memory alloys that are known to exhibit phonon softening and soft mode condensation into a premartensitic phase prior to the martensitic transformation ...