Drought stress is considered as the most important limiting factor for growing of crops such as maize. Under low irrigation conditions, proper nutrition of plants can improve the effects of drought stress. This experiment was carried out in order to investigate the effect of nutrition management along with application of zeolite on agronomic traits of two hybrids of maize under deficit irrigati...

We present YumiInt a deep Web integration system for local search engines for Geo-referenced objects. YumiInt consists of two systems: YumiDev and YumiMeta. YumiDev is an off-line integration system that builds the key components (e.g., query translation and entity resolution) of YumiMeta. YumiMeta is the Web application to which users post queries. It translates queries to multiple sources and...

We present our Multi Point Of vieW Evaluation Refinement Studio (MPOWERS), an application framework for Spoken Dialogue System evaluation that implements design conventions in a user-friendly interface. It ensures that all evaluator-users manipulate a unique shared corpus of data with a shared set of parameters to design and retrieve their evaluations. It therefore answers both the need for con...

With the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies, web-based learning is shifting to new learning community driven requirements. While the success of web-based learning (still) requires a careful selection of appropriate communication/collaboration tools, the underlying software methodology is shifting from (passive) content consumption towards (active) content creation. Even more, the professionals’...

This paper proposes a context-aware information delivery system (CAIDS) using a UMTS Release 5 architecture and a wireless LAN. We present the concept and the system architecture of CAIDS, discuss the disposition of functional modules using the network-centric approach and clarify the CAIDS can provide the users with context-aware information delivery services including context-aware personal c...

Harnessing the increasing amount of information available through public and private networks to inform decisionmaking presents a considerable challenge. There is a critical need for a system that integrates and structures diverse information in support of the user tasks and goals. The system must focus on the relevant information, evaluate tradeoffs, and suggest courses of action to the user. ...

Hard and soft precedence constraints play a key role in many application domains. In telecommunications, one application is the configuration of callcontrol feature subscriptions where the task is to sequence a set of user-selected features subject to a set of hard (catalogue) precedence constraints and a set of soft (user-selected) precedence constraints. When no such consistent sequence exist...

The paper outlines a tool-supported approach to the design of Web applications. Behavioural models are augmented with web-based simulations of user interfaces to permit validation and usability assessment of systems by end users in advance of implementation. The goal is to correct architectural design decisions that adversely impact usability early in the design cycle when correction is relativ...