The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
New Web 2.0 applications, with their emphasis on collaboration and communication, hold the promise of major advances in social connectivity and coordination; however, they also in...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Richard P. Sch...
While the new generation of hand-held devices, e.g., smart phones, support a rich set of applications, growing complexity of the hardware and runtime environment makes the devices...
Marcello Cinque, Domenico Cotroneo, Zbigniew Kalba...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
KBS Adaptive Hyperbook is a framework designed for modeling, organizing, and maintaining distributed hypermedia resources on the Web with the purpose of supporting Web-based dista...