the purpose of the study was to identify and document technical knowledge and information gaps that can inform development of appropriate training programs for cane farmers. the study employed a survey research design; involving 105 small scale farmers in selected from eight sub-counties of kakamega county. data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. pearson’s product m...

We introduce in this paper a generic architecture to deal with the general problem: “How to Deliver the Right Information to the Right User?”. We discuss this issue through the proposal of our SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) Personalised Architecture, called MySDI, which is based on the software agent paradigm as well as on information retrieval techniques. In order to clarify and ...

XML-based Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) systems aims to quickly deliver useful information to the users based on their profiles or user subscriptions. These subscriptions are specified in the form of XML queries. This paper investigates how clustering and aggregation of user queries can help scale SDI systems by reducing the number of document-subscription matchings required. We ...

New methods and new systems are needed to lter or to selectively distribute the increasing volume of electronic information being produced nowadays. An e ective information ltering system is one that provides the exact information that ful lls a user's interest with the minimum e ort by the user to describe it. Such a system will have to be adaptive to the user changing interest. In this paper ...

The primary objective of document annotation in whatever form, manual or electronic is to allow those who may not have control to original document to provide personal view on information source. Beyond providing personal assessment to original information sources, we are looking at a situation where annotation made can be used as additional source of information for document tracking and recom...

agriculture is the backbone of india’s economy as two-third of the population live in rural areas and directly or indirectly depend on agriculture for their livelihood. india’s food production has improved significantly during the last three decades due to all-round efforts but indian agriculture is still facing a multitude of problems to maximize productivity to feed the continuously increasin...

Information Dissemination applications are gaining increasing popularity due to dramatic improvements in communications bandwidth and ubiquity. The sheer volume of data available necessitates the use of selective approaches to dissemination in order to avoid overwhelming users with unnecessaryinformation. Existing mechanisms for selective dissemination typically rely on simple keyword matching ...