introduction: nowadays and with the increasing role of the worldwide web as one of the most important sources of information on the one hand, and the enhancement of its usability on the other, it is necessary for the web designers and developers to be familiar with the criteria that make a web portal usable. therefore, the present study aimed to provide knowledge about the criteria of usability...

Background: University has a great responsibility for the education of students. In order to achieve this target, it must provide academic counseling for students. The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of students after using a portal for virtual counseling. Methods: A questionnaire which is based on the goals that mentioned in mentorship law was designed and validated by educa...

Web is a growing source of information. Web users surf web for different purpose. Some users surf the web to work, some for fun, students surf it for study purpose and particular users for financial information. These users visit dozen to twenty websites where they can find interesting information. Web portal is a special kind of dataintensive website that collects information from different so...

Ontology-based web portal generation and management is an active field of research and development. Recently, many systems have been developed. However, many of them lack the integration of web services which may provide more dynamic information and richer functionalities. In this paper, we describe SPortS, an OWL-DL based portal generation system that integrates semantic web services into gene...