Building WIGITs: Public services, IT, and users make a better Web site

P2P Web Search: Make It Light, Make It Fly (Demo)

We propose a live demonstration of MinervaLight, a P2P Web search engine. MinervaLight combines the (previously separate) focused crawler BINGO! (to harvest Web data), the local search engine TopX, and our P2P Web search system MINERVA under one common user interface. The crawler unattendedly downloads and indexes Web data, where the scope of the focused crawl can be tailored to the thematic in...

Make it better but don't change anything

With massive amounts of data being generated in electronic format, there is a need in basic science laboratories to adopt new methods for tracking and analyzing data. An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) is not just a replacement for a paper lab notebook, it is a new method of storing and organizing data while maintaining the data entry flexibility and legal recording functions of paper note...

mining users` navigation patterns for building web pages recommendation system

due to the quick growth of the world wide web, retrieval of useful informationfrom the internet for a particular web user or a group of users becomes verydifficult. recommendation systems using web usage mining help providing anadaptive web environment for the web users. this paper presents a novel approachfor page recommendation using fuzzy association rule mining algorithm. thismethod extract...

Better public services for growth and jobs

Building Better Business Cases for IT Investments

While most organizations today demand a robust business case justifying investments in information technology (IT), our research, which includes a survey of over 100 organizations, indicates that few organizations are satisfied with their ability produce such a case. In particular, they are concerned about identifying and quantifying the expected benefits. Surprisingly, many organizations don’t...