The quality of WWW-based learning depends on several critical success factors. Especially, the course material on the WWW should not represent a one-to-one transfer of written lecture notes. Added values like interaction and dialogue components, training modules, etc. should be provided. This paper introduces an approach of multimedia-oriented WWW-based teachware packages taking these demands i...

Zebu is an educational groupware technology which facilitates the use of standard WWW software to support collaborative project-based learning. This paper discusses the promise of Zebu in helping teachers and students overcome some technical and practical, educational problems inherent in WWW-based technologies, allowing them to more fully realise the potentials of the WWW as a technology for c...

Robots provide us with a means to move around in, visualize, and interact with a remote physical world. We have exploited these physical properties coupled with the growing diversity of users on the World Wide Web (WWW) [1] to create a WWW based telerobotic remote environment browser. This browser, called Mechanical Gaze, allows multiple remote WWW users to control a robot arm with an attached ...

The emergence of middleware systems for distributed systems is seen to be an extensible and empowering technology. The World−Wide Web (WWW) [Berners−Lee et al, 1994] can capitalise on this by providing access to distributed system services via this middleware and access of WWW services to distributed systems. The integration of such middleware systems, particularly OSF’s DCE (Distributed Comput...

After illustrating with the help of a textuality checklist how it transpires that humans can produce so much better summaries than automatic systems, I plead the cause of a summarization system that follows the approach of human summarizers not in the system underground but near the user interface where users actually feel it. I present the overall research strategy and a sketch of the target s...

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a clinical syndrome in human medicine. It is associated with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, or weight loss caused by an abnormal accumulation of small bowel bacteria. A similar syndrome has been reported to occur in dogs and cats. The diagnosis of SIBO relies on documenting higher numbers of proximal small intestinal bacteria than are normal for ...

In this paper we present the WebSTAR system, which is a prototype of a video database on the World Wide Web. The WebSTAR system allows owners of video material to make their video available on the Internet together with suitable meta-data descriptions. Through ordinary web browser, users on the Internet can search, browse and play back the available video material on their computer screen. User...

DEFINITION The information age has made it easy to store large amounts of data. The proliferation of documents available on the Web is rapidly growing. Search engines only worsen the problem by making more and more documents available in just a few key strokes. Link Analysis is a new, exciting and rapidly growing area of research that tries to solve the information overload problem by using tec...

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the most accepted service in the internet providing a globally distributed hypermedia information system. Despite its tremendous growth the WWW lacks functionality beyond its basic requestresponse resp. download paradigm especially in the area of stream-oriented real-time media. Thus an important development direction for the WWW is the integration of such media into...

Recently the notion of self-similarity has been shown to apply to wide-area and local-area network traffic. In this paper we examine the mechanisms that give rise to self-similar network traffic. We present an explanation for traffic self-similarity by using a particular subset of wide area traffic: traffic due to the World Wide Web (WWW). Using an extensive set of traces of actual user executi...