To aid researchers in obtaining, organizing and managing biological data, we have designed an intelligent digital library system that utilizes advanced data mining techniques. Our digital library system is implemented as a centralized J2EE web application with links to publicly accessible data repositories on the Internet. The digital library is based on a framework used for conventional librar...

Chris Baillie ([email protected]) Peter Edwards Edoardo Pignotti This research is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1 Example A web service provides public transport information based on GPS observations (e.g. vehicle locations ) from passengers' mobile phones. The quality of these observations ...

Increasing numbers of museums and cultural institutions are using 3D scanning techniques to preserve cultural artefacts as 3D digital models and to provide curators, scholars and the general public with a richer experience when accessing online exhibitions. However there are a number of challenges associated with the development, maintenance and curation of 3D digital collections. In particular...

Today, the use of the Internet and Internet sites has been an integrated part of the people’s lives, and most activities and important data are in the Internet websites. Thus, attempts to intrude into these websites have grown exponentially. Intrusion detection systems (IDS) of web attacks are an approach to protect users. But, these systems are suffering from such drawbacks as low accuracy in ...

The challenges of managing a nationwide “network of centres of excellence” (NCE) are being explored by GRAND, a Canadian NCE comprising over 350 researchers from technical disciplines, social sciences, humanities and the arts within 34 interwoven projects focusing on all aspects of digital media. A complex web of relationships with funding agencies, private and public partners, and researchers ...