Browsing by Subject "Metadata"

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      An ActOn-based semantic information service for EGEE 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2007)
      We describe an information service that aggregates metadata available in hundreds of information sources of the EGEE Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn), which is ...
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      An ActOn-based semantic information service for Grids 

      Xing, Wei; Corcho, O.; Goble, C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2010)
      We describe a semantic information service that aggregates metadata from a large number of information sources of a large-scale Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn) ...
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      Applying object-oriented principles to the analysis and design of learning objects 

      Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Papadopoulos, George Angelos (Academic Conferences Limited, 2007)
      This paper forms part of a broader work examining the application of Object Oriented (OO) principles to the design and development of e-Learning material and its use within Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS). The ...
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      Challenges in electronic roads in the information society: content-based image retrieval and IP DiffServ 

      Mylonas, Yiannos; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Panis, Stathis (IEEE, 2000)
      The objective of this study is to address some technological challenges that we faced within the Electronic Roads in the Information Society (ERIS) project. The main task of ERIS is to investigate an approach for dynamic ...
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      Cultural journeys in the information society 

      Fakas, Georgios John; Kakas, Antonis C.; Dionisiou, D.; Dionisiou, M.; Kentonis, Achilleas; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Schizas, Christos N. (IEEE, 2000)
      This paper describes the Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS) project. CJIS project is an INCO project (973324) funded by the ECC and its aims to address the problem of electronic information roads at various ...
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      Data-centric privacy protocol for intensive care grids 

      Luna, J.; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Marazakis, M.; Kyprianou, T. (2010)
      Modern e-Health systems require advanced computing and storage capabilities, leading to the adoption of technologies like the grid and giving birth to novel health grid systems. In particular, intensive care medicine uses ...
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      DBGlobe: A service-oriented P2P system for global computing 

      Pitoura, Evaggelia 1967-; Abiteboul, S.; Pfoser, D.; Samaras, George S.; Vazirgiannis, M. (2003)
      The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a super-database. Our goal is to develop a data management system ...
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      Effective keyword search for software resources installed in large-scale Grid infrastructures 

      Pallis, George C.; Katsifodimos, A.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2009)
      In this paper, we investigate the problem of supporting keyword-based searching for the discovery of software resources that are installed on the nodes of largescale, federated Grid computing infrastructures. We address a ...
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      The Electronic Road: Personalized Content Browsing 

      Wallace, M.; Karpouzis, K.; Stamou, G.; Moschovitis, G.; Kollias, S.; Schizas, Christos N. (2003)
      The effectiveness of a content browsing system, based on semantic content analysis, user profiling, and adaptation, is discussed. The various aspects of electronic road are also described. An user's navigation path through ...
    • Conference Object  Open Access

      Enquiry-based learning using pictures: the geograph project 

      Barker, Philip (University of Cyprus, 2010)
      This paper discusses the rationale underlying enquiry-based learning in terms of problem-solving activity and the technical infrastructure needed to support it. Some of the issues underlying the implementation of this ...
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      A grid-enabled digital library system for natural disaster metadata 

      Xing, Wei; Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Yang, Hua; Sphyris, Angelos; Eftichidis, George (2005)
      The need to organize and publish metadata about European research results in the field of natural disasters has been met with the help of two innovative technologies: the Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) and the ...
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      Harvesting large-scale grids for software resources 

      Katsifodimos, A.; Pallis, George C.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2009)
      Grid infrastructures are in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources and a wide variety of application software. In this context, it is important to establish advanced ...
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      Medical content searching, retrieving, and sharing over the internet: Lessons learned from the meducator through a scenario-based evaluation 

      Antoniades, Athos; Nicolaidou, I.; Spachos, D.; Mylläri, J.; Giordano, D.; Dafli, E.; Mitsopoulou, E.; Schizas, Christos N.; Pattichis, Constantinos S.; Nikolaidou, M.; Bamidis, Panagiotis D. (2015)
      Background: The mEducator Best Practice Network (BPN) implemented and extended standards and reference models in e-learning to develop innovative frameworks as well as solutions that enable specialized state-of-the-art ...
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      Metacomputing with mobile agents 

      Evripidou, Paraskevas; Samaras, George S. (2006)
      In this paper we present Parallel Computing with Mobile Agents (PaCMAn), a mobile agent based Metacomputer that enables its users to utilize idle resources on the internet to tackle computational problems that could not ...
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      Metadata ranking and pruning for failure detection in grids 

      Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Papadakis, Charis; Georgiou, Chryssis; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2008)
      The objective of Grid computing is to make processing power as accessible and easy to use as electricity and water. The last decade has seen an unprecedented growth in Grid infrastructures which nowadays enables large-scale ...
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      Minersoft: Software retrieval in grid and cloud computing infrastructures 

      Dikaiakos, Marios D.; Katsifodimos, A.; Pallis, George C. (2012)
      One of the main goals of Cloud and Grid infrastructures is to make their services easily accessible and attractive to end-users. In this article we investigate the problem of supporting keyword-based searching for the ...
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      PALLAS: A querying interface for pervasive computing using handheld devices 

      Polyviou, S.; Evripidou, Paraskevas; Samaras, George S. (2004)
      In this paper we describe PALLAS (PALm Logic-based Algebraic Search), a prototype architecture, design and implementation for a search interface on a portable digital assistant. PALLAS is part of the UbAgent, a middleware ...
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      Presampled visibility for ambient occlusion 

      Gaitatzes, Athanasios; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L.; Papaioannou, Georgios J. (2008)
      We present a novel method to accelerate the computation of the visibility function of the lighting equation, in dynamic scenes composed of rigid, non-penetrating objects. The main idea of the technique is to pre-compute ...
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      Searching for software on the EGEE infrastructure 

      Pallis, George C.; Katsifodimos, A.; Dikaiakos, Marios D. (2010)
      Several large-scale Grid infrastructures are currently in operation around the world, federating an impressive collection of computational resources, a wide variety of application software, and hundreds of user communities. ...