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IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Model for Naturalistic Virtual User Simulation
The aim of this study is to present a contribution in the area of human decision modeling. A state of the art from this research area shows the lack of models combining perceptive...
Laurent Bodic, Pierre Favier, Guillaume Calvet
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Moginma: an autonomous grid node monitoring agent
The accelerated development in grid computing has positioned it as a promising next generation computing platform. It enables the creation of virtual organizations (VO) for sharin...
Arshad Ali, Fawad Nazir, Hamid Abbas Burki, Tallat...
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Pattern definition to refine navigation structure in hypermedia/Web applications
When building Hypermedia/Web Applications, (different) designers are often faced with the same problems over and over again. Those recurring problems soon yield elegant solutions,...
Sven Casteleyn, Irene Garrigós, Peter Pless...
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Using Ontologies to Build Virtual Worlds for the Web
Today, the development of a VR application is still a long and difficult task. You need to be skilled in Virtual Reality (VR) technology to be able to develop a Virtual World. The...
Wesley Bille, Olga De Troyer, Frederic Kleinermann...
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Access Management in Federated Digital Libraries
With the growth in digital libraries and standardization of protocols for metadata sharing, it is becoming feasible to build federated discovery services which aggregate metadata ...
Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Rav...
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Computer-mediated communication: what can we learn from a diverse range of users?
The demographics of computer-mediated communication (CMC) users have changed considerably over the last twenty years. Whereas in the 1980's it was largely academics, and comp...
Sanjeet Bhachu, D. Ramanee Peiris, Annalu Waller
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Computer-Mediated Communication: Can we Make it Better?
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is fundamentally different to face-to-face (FTF) communication. The low bandwidth of CMC filters out important social and contextual cues, wh...
Sanjeet Bhachu, D. Ramanee Peiris, Annalu Waller
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Designers' Perspective of Website Usability: The Cultural Dimension
The aim of this paper is to conduct a comparative study between liberal and prescriptive cultures (in this case Arab and British audiences) to extract the views of Web designers i...
Ali H. Al-Badi, Pam J. Mayhew
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Grid Enabled Information Retrieval
Our research aims to further our understanding of Information Retrieval for management of knowledge within the Grid environment. We do so by developing a search and categorisation...
Babak Akhgar, Nahum Korda, Jawed I. A. Siddiqi, Me...
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Preliminary Steps in Designing and Implementing a Privilege Verifier for PMI
We have designed and deployed a system that uses X.509 public-key certificates (PKC) and attribute certificates (AC) for access control. This includes an authorization service for...
Diana Berbecaru, Antonio Lioy