In information system development, end-users often participate in design and in many cases learn to design their own system. Design, however, requires a distinct approach that use...
Computer based community support systems can provide powerful support in direct exchange of information and in finding people for information exchange Such applications usually mak...
The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...
Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
In a cluster of many servers containing heterogeneous multimedia learning material and serving users with different backgrounds (e.g. language, interests, previous knowledge, hardw...