Today's technology-enhanced learning practices cater to students and teachers who use
many different learning tools and environments and are used to a paradigm of interaction …

While photo sharing sites such as Flickr provide efficient tools for setting up an online album,
users who want to maintain a certain level of privacy are usually only provided with …

Information retrieval systems, especially those accessed over the Internet, are ubiquitous in
our globalizing world. Many are wonderfully easy to use, and it is therefore easy to assume …

Modern software has been an integral part of everyday activities in many disciplines and
application contexts. Introducing intelligent automation by leveraging artificial intelligence …

Abstract The Semantic Web aims at enabling sophisticated and autonomic machine to
machine interactions without human intervention, by providing machines not only with data …

Today's students, being used to constant activity and multitasking in their everyday life, need
a high level of social and creative engagement in order to learn; for them, highly interactive …

Uncontrolled disclosure of sensitive information during electronic transactions may expose
users to threats like loss of privacy and identity theft. The means envisioned for addressing …

Enabling Trust and Privacy on the Social Web Page 1 Chapter © Copyright 2009 Digital
Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved. Digital Enterprise Research Institute www.deri.ie …

Many semantic web applications require selective sharing of ontologies between
autonomous entities due to copyright, privacy or security concerns. In such cases, an agent …

The Web allows users to share their work very effectively leading to the rapid re-use and
remixing of content on the Web including text, images, and videos. Scientific research data …