The challenges for academics in meeting the learning requirements of students are many and varied. This research focuses on the concept of personalised learning, where activities are specifically selected to suit the learning requirements of individual students. The creation of personalised learning activities to suit every student's learning needs, are not easily achieved. A survey was conduct...

In an E-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Therefore, workflow interoperability in such an environment is an important issue for enacting workflows. In this paper, we introduce our approach of using workflow views as a fundamental support for E-service workflow interoperability and for controlled (sub-) workflows visibil...

While much work has addressed the problem of maintaining materialized views, the important question of optimizing queries in the presence of materialized views has not been resolved. In this paper, we analyze the optimization question and provide a comprehensive and efficient solution. Our solution has the desirable property that it is a simple generalization of the traditional query optimizati...

Ana Simonet and Michel Simonet Laboratoire TIMC-IMAG, 38706 La Tronche cedex FRANCE e-mail : (Ana,Michel)[email protected] 1 The P-type Model The p-type data model was conceived in the early eighties as an answer to database needs [12]. It was expressed within the Algebraic Data Types (ADT) paradigm [7] [8] and its main concern was the sharing of objects by several kinds of users seeing them thr...

The ability to exchange opinions and experiences online is known as online word of mouth (WOM) and has been shown in the literature to have the potential to impact e-commerce sales. The purpose of this paper is to expand previous findings by empirically evaluating the impact of online WOM attributes and other related factors (e.g. product views, promotion, and category) on e-commerce sales usin...