SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324963
N. Stash
{"title":"Incorporating cognitive/learning styles in a general-purpose adaptive hypermedia system","authors":"N. Stash","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324963","url":null,"abstract":"Natalia Stash received her PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. The title of her thesis is \"Incorporating Cognitive/Learning Styles in a General-Purpose Adaptive Hypermedia System\". She currently participates in the CHIP project (Cultural Heritage Information Personalization) located at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Her research interests include adaptive web-based systems, semantic web technologies, learning styles, e-culture applications.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134128961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324961
F. Casati
{"title":"Service-oriented computing","authors":"F. Casati","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324961","url":null,"abstract":"Workflow management and service composition technologies have been around for over twenty years now (or more, depending on who you ask and how you define them). The objective of these technologies is to automate process execution across people and systems. These technologies generated an incredible hype both in the academia and in the industry, at least in the software development industry. Hundreds of process and service composition models have been defined, thousands of papers have been written on the topic, and dozens of commercial workflow/service composition systems have been developed. With all this large effort, one would imagine that such technology is in widespread use and that, if not, the key problems have been identified and that is what generates so much effort from the research community. I believe that this is not the case.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114159769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324965
M. Junghans, D. Riehle, Ümit Yalçinalp
{"title":"An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0","authors":"M. Junghans, D. Riehle, Ümit Yalçinalp","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324965","url":null,"abstract":"Wikis have become an important application on the web and in the enterprise, yet there are no interoperability standards between different wiki engines. We present the first complete XML representation format of Wiki Creole 1.0. Wiki Creole is a community standard for wiki markup, the language used to write wiki pages. This report presents the complete XML representation format using a validating XML schema. In addition we present XSLT definitions for transforming the XML representations to XHTML on the one hand and for transforming the XML representations to Wiki Creole markup on the other hand. Our work shows how using XML technologies we can make wiki interchange, wiki upgrading, and wiki conversion independent from a specific wiki engine implementation.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132046457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324964
M. Junghans, D. Riehle, Rama Gurram, M. Kaiser, Mário Lopes, Ümit Yalçinalp
{"title":"An EBNF grammar for Wiki Creole 1.0","authors":"M. Junghans, D. Riehle, Rama Gurram, M. Kaiser, Mário Lopes, Ümit Yalçinalp","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324964","url":null,"abstract":"Today's wiki engines are not interoperable. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This technical report presents a complete and validated EBNF-based grammar for Wiki Creole, a community standard for wiki markup. Wiki Creole is also the only standard currently available. Wiki Creole is being specified using prose, leading to inconsistencies and ambiguities. Our grammar uncovered those ambiguities which we fed back into the specification process. The Wiki Creole grammar presented in this report makes the creation of Wiki Creole parsers simple using parser generators, ANTLR in our case. Using a precise specification of wiki markup lets us decouple wiki editors from wiki storage from further wiki processing tools. Based on this decoupling layer we expect innovation on these different parts to proceed independently and at a faster pace than before.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"s3-27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130110563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324966
M. Schraefel
{"title":"What is an analogue for the semantic web and why is having one important?","authors":"M. Schraefel","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324966","url":null,"abstract":"This paper postulates that for the Semantic Web to grow and gain input from fields that will surely benefit it, it needs to develop an analogue that will help people not only understand what it is, but what the potential opportunities are that are enabled by these new protocols. The model proposed in the paper takes the way that Web interaction has been framed as a baseline to inform a similar analogue for the Semantic Web. While the Web has been represented as a Page + Links, the paper presents the argument that the Semantic Web can be conceptualized as a Notebook + Memex. The argument considers how this model also presents new challenges for fundamental human interaction with computing, and that hypertext models have much to contribute to this new understanding for distributed information systems.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128568078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1145/1324960.1324962
Claus Atzenbeck
{"title":"Interview with Uffe K. Wiil","authors":"Claus Atzenbeck","doi":"10.1145/1324960.1324962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1324960.1324962","url":null,"abstract":"Uffe Kock Wiil is a professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (1990) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1993) from Aalborg University, Denmark. He has previously held positions at Aalborg University and University of Aarhus (both in Denmark). He also spent time visiting Texas A&M University (1991--92) and University of California, Irvine (1996). He has held various academic management positions from 1998--2006 including Department Head and Dean. He has served the hypertext community in many ways including Chair of the Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group (OHSWG) (1997--2001), Program Chair (ACM Hypertext 1999), General Chair (ACM Hypertext 2006), and ACM SIGWEB Treasurer (1997--1999, 2003--2005).","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130882620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-09-10DOI: 10.1145/1286240.1286261
Elizabeth J. Brown, Tony Fisher, T. Brailsford
{"title":"Real users, real results: examining the limitations of learning styles within AEH","authors":"Elizabeth J. Brown, Tony Fisher, T. Brailsford","doi":"10.1145/1286240.1286261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1286240.1286261","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the current state of AEH (adaptive educational hypermedia) research into explicit learning style modelling for user personalisation. It addresses the problem of non-naïve test subjects, who are often in user trials, thus contributing to experimental bias. Instead, the authors suggest using real people, i.e. users with a range of backgrounds and abilities, in order to gain a truer insight into evidence-based research.\u0000 We report on a study carried out with No statistically significant differences were found between experimental groups, learning style preferences or learning environments. We discuss the significance of this, and then critically analyse the use of learning styles in relation to this study and also in the wider context.real users: around 80 children at a UK primary school. The study investigated sequential and global learning styles as a personalisation mechanism in an AEH system. The user trial involved matching and mismatching users and learning environments to see if learning improved. The AEH system used by the children was DEUS, a new e-learning platform that is conceptually similar to WHURLE, an AEH that also used learning styles as its user model.\u0000 No statistically significant differences were found between experimental groups, learning style preferences or learning environments. We discuss the significance of this, and then critically analyse the use of learning styles in relation to this study and also in the wider context.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128096284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1288104.1288162
E. Munson
{"title":"A Letter from the SIGWEB Chair","authors":"E. Munson","doi":"10.1145/1288104.1288162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1288104.1288162","url":null,"abstract":"It is a great pleasure to be writing this letter as part of SIGWEB’s new newsletter. SIGWEB is eighteen years old this year and you, the members, have just elected Maria da Graa Pimentel, Simon Harper and I to two-year terms as the officers of SIGWEB. As SIGWEB Chair, I’ve appointed four other active volunteers to join us on the SIGWEB Executive Committee: Claus Atzenbach,Frank Shipman, Bebo White, and Yeliz Yelisada. The next two years promise to be eventful, challenging and fun and I want to tell you some of the directions that SIGWEB is heading.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126171168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1288104.1288106
Claus Atzenbeck
{"title":"Interview with Peter J. Nürnberg","authors":"Claus Atzenbeck","doi":"10.1145/1288104.1288106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1288104.1288106","url":null,"abstract":"Peter J. Nürnberg is a Managing Partner of Xtructure, LLC, a company founded in 2002 to provide network modeling and simulation tools. He received his M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in Computer Science at Texas A&M University, working on hypermedia and structural computing infrastructures. He spent two years at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, before moving to Aalborg University Esbjerg, Dennmark. He also spent one year at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He has served as Chair of SIGWEB (2003-2006), Program Chair of ACM Hypertext 2006, General Chair ACM Hypertext 2000 and of ACM Digital Libraries 2000, and an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on the Web.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128608077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SIGWEB Newsl.Pub Date : 2007-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1288104.1288163
Y. Yeşilada
{"title":"Recent Additions to The SIGWEB Website","authors":"Y. Yeşilada","doi":"10.1145/1288104.1288163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1288104.1288163","url":null,"abstract":"The SIGWEB Calendar of Events provides our members with key dates that are of interest to people within the Hypermedia and Web communities. Events include submission and notification deadlines of Conferences that are of interest to our members as well as the dates of these conferences. Users can import the Calendar into their own personal Calendar application so that they are automatically reminded as event deadlines loom. This can be achieved by using either the iCal format , Google Calendar or subscribing to the RSS Feed.","PeriodicalId":147920,"journal":{"name":"SIGWEB Newsl.","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131463276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}