The paper deals with the conception and technical development of the “Sustainability Quick Check for Biofuels” (hereafter SQCB). The SQCB is a tool to evaluate the impacts of biofuel production on environment. Against the background of mineral oil tax remission in Switzerland providers or dealers of energy crops or biofuels in developing countries can do a legally non-binding check if their pro...

The advancement of a Semantic Web both entails and promotes new collaborative practices in Web content management, e.g. for e-business applications. These practices involve cognitive interactions which must be taken into account in the aims of the Semantic Web, and encouraged by using and completing its standards, with a Knowledge Engineering approach. General Terms : Human Factors.

background:   measuring content validity of instruments are important. this type of validity can help to ensure construct validity and give confidence to the readers and researchers about instruments. content validity refers to the degree that the instrument covers the content that it is supposed to measure. for content validity two judgments are necessary: the measurable extent of each item fo...

Service adaptation is fundamental to context-aware service provisioning and to the realization of the Virtual Home Environment concept, which is now an integral part of the 3G service framework. Although the technological means for developing advanced, adaptable services are maturing, managing adaptation is still an ambitious task. In this paper, we tackle the issues of automating and managing ...

Blocking of foreign Web content by Internet access providers has been a hot topic for the last 18 months in Germany. Since fall 2001 the state of North-RhineWestphalia very actively tried to mandate such blocking. This paper will take a technical view on the problems imposed by the blocking orders and blocking content at access or network provider level in general. It will also give some empiri...

Building new digital library applications requires a developement platform that offers standard and powerful building blocks to support application developers. In this paper we discuss our experience of using MILOS, a multimedia content management system oriented to the construction of digital libraries, to build a demanding application dedicated to non-professional users. Specifically, we disc...

Am Beispiel eines CSCL-Scripts behandelt dieser Beitrag Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten kollaborativer Lernprozesse in videographischen Lernumgebungen. Das Skript unterstützt Lerngruppen dabei eine Sammlung von Lernvideos semantisch aufzubereiten und mit zeitgenauen Überprüfungsfragen anzureichern. Diese Formen der Peer Annotation und des Peer Assessment wurden in einer Studie mit 32 Studierenden erpr...

In forecasting the operation of the manufacturing industry in the 21st century, the authors recently proposed “science SQC” as a demonstrative-scientific methodology and discussed its effectiveness on the basis of verification studies conducted by Toyota Motor Corporation. This study outlines a new SQC principle “science SQC”, as a demonstrative-scientific methodology, which enables the princip...

The exploitation of semantic information in videos is difficult because of the large difference in representations, levels of knowledge and abstract episodes. Traditional image/video understanding and indexing is formulated in terms of low-level features describing image/video structure and intensity, while high-level knowledge such as common sense and human perceptual knowledge are encoded. Th...

WordPress offers users a wide choice of themes defining the structure, functionality, layout and presentation of a website together with its content types. These themes are shared by the WordPress community, enabling users to benefit from the skills of others. However, it is not possible to mix themes, so users often have to choose from a set of themes that only partially meet their requirement...