The following paper describes a set of methods that is currently used in a study of the task performance process of patent engineers within the Swedish Patentand Registration Office (SPRO). The focus of the study is to investigate the relationship between the user’s work-task and the information seeking and retrieval process. The study is performed within a real life work setting where patent e...

This paper reports on the activities of the INEX 2005 Multimedia track. The track was successful in realizing its objective to provide a pilot evaluation platform for the evaluation of retrieval strategies for XML-based multimedia documents. In this first exploratory year the focus of the evaluation experiment was to test approaches for the retrieval of XML fragments using a combination of cont...

In 2009, Chen et al. proposed a satellite communication system for mobile devices to achieve wide communication. In this scheme, there are some security loopholes that need to be fixed since the mobile device was stolen. Since a malicious attacker intercepts the mobile user’s information they can proceed with different attacks. Hence, we propose a novel scheme to improve the mobile user’s commu...

This paper argues that knowledge technologies can be utilized in creating question-answer services on the semantic web. To ease the content indexer’s work, we propose semi-automatic semantic indexing for annotating question-answer pairs and case-based reasoning techniques for finding similar questions. To provide answers matching with the indexer’s and end-user’s information needs, methods for ...

Information communication systems contextually are similar to the informing science idea and they are conveyed by three main categories making them operational in a real life environment. These categories are about (1) technology, (2) content/information/knowledge and (3) user interface/ability to state information needs, to find information and to understand presented information and content. ...

Often it is mentioned by participants that having peers speak out about their personal journey has instilled a sense of hope and been an inspiring experience. From this evolved the Mentor program. The Body Image and Eating Disorders Treatment and Recovery Service (BETRS) Mentor Program has been developed to complement the professional expertise within the team. Our Mentors share their lived exp...

quality of life of mothers of children with special needs: a qualitative study    yaghmaei f [1] *, sahar m [2]     received: 29 sep , 2013 accepted: 16 nov , 2013   abstract:   background & aims: quality of life (qol) is important in today's society. by qol, the people’s experience of life could be measured. quality of life of mothers with children with special needs is the focus of this ...

Real-time systems are increasingly used in dynamic changing environments with variable user needs hosting real-time applications ranging in number and nature over time. However, to the authors’ knowledge, no unified framework exists that is able to cope with those competing real-time concerns across multiple real-time application domains. This paper proposes an architecture-based framework for ...