The goal of many web portals is to select, organize and distribute content in order to satisfy its users/customers. This process is usually based on meta-data that represent and describe content. In this paper we describe a methodology and a system to monitor the quality of the meta-data used to describe content in web portals. The methodology is based on the analysis of the meta-data using sta...

Four focus groups were held with young Web users (10 to 13 years of age) to explore design criteria for Web portals. The focus group participants commented upon four existing portals designed with young users in mind: Ask Jeeves for Kids, KidsClick, Lycos Zone, and Yahooligans! This article reports their first impressions on using these portals, their likes and dislikes, and their suggestions f...

This paper describes design and implementation of an open, extensible object-oriented framework that allows integrating new and legacy components into a single user-friendly Grid Computing Environment. This way we extend the researcher’s desktop by providing seamless access to remote resources (that is, hardware, software and data), and thereby simplifying currently difficult to comprehend and ...

In this paper we describe the QBFEVAL web portal, an online resource supporting the participants and the organizers of the yearly evaluation of QBF solvers and instances.

Modern information systems are increasingly built on Web-based and component-based platforms. This raises the need for a Web-based infrastructure to simplify the management and procurement of corresponding components. Special focus lies on the deployment and distribution of such software artifacts within the context of the World Wide Web to promote their reuse and therefore to save development ...

Web Portals function as a single point of access to information on the World Wide Web (WWW). The web portal always contacts the portal's gateway for the information flow that causes network traffic over the Internet. Moreover, it provides real time/dynamic access to the stored information, but not access to the real time information. This inherent functionality of web portals limits their role ...

A personal portal, which is an entrance wherein each user can acquire the information that s/he is interested in on a network, is often used as an alternative means of communication. However, there are a number of problems with the existing personal portals. For example, because the Web page as a personal portal is generated by the program located on the specific Web server which is managed by ...

In this paper we present our research work concerning the development of a QTI (QTI, 2003) player and QTI editor that are integrated in a web portal, called netUniversité, to support the teachers to design the educational Web sites based on pedagogical scenarios represented in IMS LD (IMS LD, 2003). Our application is a tool that helps the staff having no skill in web development to conceive th...

The purpose of this article is to share the experiences and lessons learned from an experimental graduate class using Web-based technologies that resulted in the development of a statewide entrepreneurship knowledge portal. Given the demands for Web-based systems and technologies to facilitate entrepreneurship, this class experience could be used as a model to help other states build or improve...