Cloud computing based e-Learning provides continuous (any time, anywhere and any device learning) and collaborative learning. Cloud computing in an academic environment such as university will be benefitted by every students, faculties, administrators and research scholars. Most of the universities infrastructures are underutilized and in some cases over utilization of resources occurs in order...

Nowadays, proprietary and monolithic IT environments are more and more transformed into standardand component-based service infrastructures. In this keynote, we will analyse this trend especially for the area of e-Science. While in the past decades, scientist have developed centralised, application-focused (silo-oriented) hardware and software environments, they now (for good reasons) tend to j...

English Abstract Generating and maintaining user access to resources like e-learning courses is a time and money consuming process for both, users and resource providers. In authentication and authorization infrastructures such as Shibboleth, PAPI and Liberty Alliance, home organizations authenticate their own users and provide a set of user information attributes to the resources they access, ...

over the recent years, rapid development of information technology (it) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) has dramatically affected world trade and the way business is conducted. also the benefits of using e-commerce and other internet-based technologies have been well recognized through extensive surveys pointing the dominant role of it in different industries. however, implementation of an...

The observation "the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from" (Tanenbaum, 1981, p. 221) has been circulating in e-learning standards circles for some time. This statement certainly reflects the varied and complex nature of standards organizations and standards development processes. This paper provides an overview of standards and specifications bodies and processes ...

The demand for cloud computing has pressured the development of new market offerings, representing various cloud services and delivery models. These models significantly expand the range of available options and tasks.Cloud computing allows changes in businesses and organizations with more choices regarding how to run infrastructures, save costs, and delegate liabilities to thirdparty providers...

D PR OO F Infrastructures, incentives, and institutions: fostering distributed knowledge bases for the learning society Pedro Conceição*, Manuel V. Heitor, Francisco Veloso Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, IN+ Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisbon, Portugal

Globalization requires new methods of delivering education and training, partly to enhance traditional methods of knowledge acquisition and to impart new skills and tools (Adam, Awerbuch, Slonim, Wegner and Yesha, 1997). Traditional classroom learning doesn’t seem to fit well with the notion of lifelong learning, since it requires the physical presence of instructors and students. It is instruc...

Semantic Web to E-Learning Content T.Sheeba * S.Hameetha Begum M. Justin Bernard Computing, Muscat College Computing, Muscat College W.J. Towell Engineering, Muscat Oman Oman Oman Abstract— E-Learning is the use of technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere. Semantic Web incorporates efforts to build an efficient web that enhances content with formal semantics, which enables bett...

78 Computing in Science & Engineering 1521-9615/15/$31.00 © 2015 IEEE Copublished by the IEEE CS and the AIP May/June 2015 T he search for the Higgs boson, the huge advances in genetics, the improvements in weather forecasting, the growing understanding of climate change, and many other recent and ongoing high-profile scientific research endeavors depend on collaboration among scientists. These...