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Many young college and university lecturers working in remote rural areas or working in foreign countries away from home are deprived of the opportunity of pursuing post graduate university degrees because of a number of logistical problems such as distance from a university offering a PhD degree or restrictions in their temporary country of residence. These problems are compounded if there are connectivity...
We present an experience on the automated collection of peer assessments of collaborative tasks of students using online applications or services that allow you to configure forms and receive data electronically. For students to peer assess in real time we selected the Socrative tool that lets you use smartphones, tablets, or laptops in a conventional classroom, or desktop computers in a computer...
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is widely used in large-scale data storage and processing. HDFS uses MapReduce programming model for parallel processing. The work presented in this paper proposes a novel Hadoop plugin to process image files with MapReduce model. The plugin introduces image related I/O formats and novel classes for creating records from input files. HDFS is especially designed...
Most interesting, important, and pressing problems facing our societies in the 21st century transcend the individual human mind. They require social creativity to explore, frame, solve, and assess their solutions. To bring social creativity alive, cultures of participation need to be fostered and supported with socio-technical environments in which all stakeholders are able to express themselves,...
Navigation service based on webGIS has a fast development. But recent research is only based on the outdoor environment or the indoor environment respectively. There is not a way to integrate them together. To cope with this problem, the paper describes an approach to integrate indoor map and outdoor map together using Google map APIs and discuses the navigation service based on the integrated map...
A vast amount of information and knowledge has been accumulated and circulated on the Web. They provide people with options regarding their daily lives and are starting to have a strong influence on governmental policies and business management. A crucial problem is that information on the Web is not necessarily credible. This paper describes an information analysis system called WISDOM, which assists...
In recent days more and more software developments tools become distributed by the SaaS (Software-As-A Service) model alongside with ready-to-install products. The developers of task and bug tracking systems now offer their solutions by a monthly fee. For instance, JIRA Studio produced by Atlassian can be connected to a corporative domain by subscription. This scheme allows software companies to reduce...
This paper presents a light-weight information retrieval and analysis architecture that addresses the complex task of gathering, combining, and storing documents to enable indepth analysis. The growing interest in mining the Internet for conversation topics, opinions, and influencers has resulted in many free and commercial products. At the heart of such capability are two core technologies: information...
This paper analyzes the challenges that the current library services are facing, and presents the model of integrated 3G mobile network technology into access to digital library reader services. The computer network technology includes both software and hardware which significantly influence the proceeding of information technology and application in the field of digital library, particularly, the...
For the current shortcomings of the agricultural information system, Systematically this article introduces the electronic farm system based on Google Maps for the information service of the end-user ubiquitous demand. Given the design principles that the user's operating system should be simple and the system interface should be humanized and the participation should be interactive, the paper shows...
Cloud computing has attracted more and more attentions due to its ability to deliver computing utilities as Internet services. Many industrial companies have successfully applied their Clouds with different technologies and architectures. But the existing Clouds are all computer-based and designed for Web browser. In this paper we propose a Cloud architecture which is based on digital appliances in...
With the emergence and development of Web2.0, the concept of E-Learning2.0 began to be raised. In E-Learning2.0 platform, the learners are the center and the learners' role in the learning process is full stressed. E-Learning2.0 is an ideal platform which supports a variety of learning patterns. This paper aims to design a platform of E-Learning2.0. How to build a Personal Learning Environment, the...
The work concerns investigation of the algorithms for the automated determination of web-based information resources rating. It is based on the analysis of changes in the algorithms of search engines search queries results of late five years. The report also considers the developed technique of the Internet web sites rating improving.
E-commerce market as well as its service grows vigorously day by day, the author observes that E-commerce market begins commercial operation of the different approach to the provision of innovative services by bloggers who are able to get profit by a new EC 2.0 business model. This article is based on a hit financial blog, Bonddealer's Blog, use the AIDA model to analyze the important factors of the...
The blogosphere's more outgoing and informal social nature provides an opportunity to exploit more socially oriented features, such as credibility and popularity, for searching, recommendation, and other tasks. In this article, the authors present evidence that blog popularity in particular has been underexploited by current search engines, including specialized ones, and that a low correlation exists...
Information seeking is getting more difficult, because there is too much information on the nets. In order to increase the accuracy of searching results, a user must possess information skills, such as Boolean logic: “and”, “or” etc. He also needs to know when to use general search or blog search to get more suitable results. Unfortunately, not everyone has these skills. In this research, a searching...
Google is a popular search engine, however, there are some cases that search results are manipulated artificially by Google. In this paper, we develop a system of discovering semiautomatically the Web pages which are censored by Google in Japan. We also analyze the censored Web pages discovered by the system to find the tendency of censorship.The outline of discovering censored Web pages is as follows:...
The arrival of new technologies to universities creates new situations and problems that must be solved in order to improve the care, support and tutoring provided to students. In many cases, the communication flows between teachers and students place an excessive demand on the teacher's response capacity. This paper describes a system designed to answer automatically the questions of students, using...
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