As long as the machines do not understand the content of large information spaces (such as the Web), only a small fragment of knowledge contained within can be actually utilized. To be able to leverage such a huge amount of information, it is necessary to provide meaningful metadata about information resources. Metadata representing the semantics enable intelligent resource processing resulting...

This paper presents an architecture for creating, retrieving, and adapting materials on the World Wide Web for learning purposes. There are two major components in the architecture: Authoring Server (AS) and Courseware Server (CS). Associated with the architecture for running dynamic courseware, certain mechanisms are also imposed. These mechanisms involve the manipulation of information on som...

The requirements for dentists in Lebanon for the year 2015 were estimated using the World Health Organization/World Dental Federation planning model. The aim was to help decision- and policy-makers in Lebanon to plan strategically for the supply of dental personnel in line with the recommendations of the Oral Health National Plan guidelines from 1995. Assumptions based on previous research in s...