Many large and distributed companies run agile projects in development environments that are inconsistent with the original agile ideas. Problems that result from these inconsistencies can affect the productivity of development projects and the timeliness of releases. To be effective in such contexts, the agile ideas need to be adapted. We take an inductive approach for reaching this aim by bas...

Introduction: Implementation of teledermatology in primary care offers the possibility of treating patients using specific dermatologic knowledge in far away places with infrequent availability to these services. It is a priority to implement teledermatology services which demonstrate diagnostic reliability and satisfaction among users. Objectives and methods: To measure the diagnostic reliabil...

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for assessment, developed through the web-based module named PASS-Personalized ASSessment, which can be integrated in an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System to provide personalized assessment. PASS estimates learner’s performance through multiple assessment options pre-test, self-assessment and summative assessment tailored to learner’s res...

The goal of the novel tool HERMA (enHanced E-learning Repository MAnager) is to improve the efficiency of the knowledge transfer process in web-based learning environments. The mechanism enables users to improve adaptive courseware enlargement and it supports the dynamic retrieval of the content, its presentation and navigation. Based on self-defined semantic parameters, which describe course a...

Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one of the main inputs to service innovation. Hence, social software has the potential to support servic...

This paper emphasizes on the enhancement of web-based selling technology for complex products. The approach of the EC-funded CAWICOMS1 project is twofold: provision of technologies both for customeradaptive Web-interfaces for the configuration of mass-customized products as well as for the integration of configuration systems along the supply-chain. Within this paper we first motivate the deman...

To create more interest is usability awareness in website development, further benefits of usability need to be introduced and examined. This paper attempts to identify and measure a positive correlation between compliance with usability guidelines and the popularity of a website. Showing a significant correlation between usability and popularity would promote further investigations into the im...

The effectiveness of a web-based reading support tool, ABRACADABRA, to improve the literacy outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students was evaluated over one semester in several Northern Territory primary schools in 2009. ABRACADABRA is intended as a support for teachers in the early years of schooling, giving them a friendly, game and evidence-based tool to reinforce their literacy ins...

The Internet provides users with a wealth of data. Much of this data is maintained in passive data sources, that is sources which do not provide facilities to search and query the information. In this paper we describe an approach to querying passive data sources based on the extraction and exploitation of metadata from the data sources. We describe two situations where this approach has been u...

The field of AI is strewn with knowledge representation languages. The language designer typically has one particular application domain in mind: as subsequent types of applications are tried, what had originally been US&II j2urure.y become undesirable limitations, and the language is overhauled or scrapped. One remedy to this bleak cycle might be to construct a representational scheme whose do...