It is important to represent the contents of WWW in a structure which can render interpretability to both human and machine and make the WWW, semantic. Thus some taxonomy is needed to make representations of the web contents which can be machine readable and usable .This taxonomy can be thought of as ontology. This paper describes how RDF and RDF-S can act as a basic support to Web ontology lan...

New and emerging technologies promise to revolutionize risk communication. The benefits of technology are discussed with regard to the components of a recently described warning process model. Examples are provided to illustrate how technology can potentially improve information accessibility and cognitive support. Design principles such as warning interactivity, dynamic modification and person...

This paper investigates the role of middleware in deploying contentcentric networks. A middleware called Juno is described, exploiting recent observations that applications rarely have an interest in how or where their content (e.g. videos, software updates) is obtained from as long as it is delivered within certain requirement bounds. Juno provides a high level abstraction through which applic...

‘Jading’ is a process of exhaustion in which apathy and cynicism replace the drive to be responsive and caring. ‘Burnout’ a term first coined in the psychology literature in 1974 was based on Graham Greene’s novel ‘A Burnt-Out Case 1 . It is the umbrella description for disengagement in the workplace setting characterised by withdrawal, denial and inefficiency. There is an alienatio...

As networking technologies evolve, the ability to support the low-latency transmission of lossless video for applications such as scientific visualization or medical imaging will continue to become more important. With all the research focused on lossless and near-lossless image compression, little gains in compression performance have been achieved over the last decade. In this paper, we intro...

Software configuration management (SCM or CM) is a key element of any software development project. A software engineering environment should not only provide support for software products and software processes in general, but also pay attention to high level software engineering concepts like configuration management. In this paper, we present an overview of our approach to software engineeri...

The WiMAX system outlines support for quality of service (QoS) through several service classes differentiation. However, no specific scheduling has been defined to carry the task. In this paper, we propose a simple and standard-compliant scheduling algorithm for downlink and uplink connections. The proposed algorithm calculates and grants the needed resources in terms of slots based on the QoS ...

The availability of variety of communication devices offers a choice among networks with vastly different characteristics. No single protocol or application can be expected to perform well over all these networks. A mobile host is likely to encounter these different networks and needs to adapt accordingly. The problem of adapting to a changing network environment is further complicated, because...

Patients under health treatments that involve long stays at a hospital or health center (e.g. cancer, organ transplants and severe burns), tend to get bored or depressed because of the lack of social interaction with family and friends. Such a situation also affects the evolution and effectiveness of their treatments. In many cases, the solution to this problem involves extra challenges, since ...