Subject: CCPE Portal C537 From: Matthias Mueller Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:23:52 +0200 (CEST) To: fox@csit.fsu.edu X-UIDL: 13fce6e622110000 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Received: by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (mbox gcfpc) (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.31 1998/05/13) Sun Oct 14 17:39:09 2001) X-From_: fox@mailer.csit.fsu.edu Sun Oct 14 17:37:11 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gcfpc@csit.fsu.edu Received: from dirac.csit.fsu.edu (dirac.csit.fsu.edu [144.174.128.44]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D226523A07 for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by dirac.csit.fsu.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7) id RAA92242; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:08 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Message-Id: <200110142137.RAA92242@dirac.csit.fsu.edu> Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.28]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F2C23A04 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:23:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.14.61]) by artemis.rus.uni-stuttgart.de with ESMTP id OAA16192 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:23:54 +0200 (MET DST) env-from (rusmatt@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) Received: (from rusmatt@localhost) by pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA14637; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 14:23:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15272.36440.936523.129211@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.71 under 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko" XEmacs Lucid (patch 2) Sender: rusmatt@pcgpc6.rus.uni-stuttgart.de Resent-To: Geoffrey Fox Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:07 -0400 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox C: Paper and Referee Metadata Paper Number Cnnn: C537 Date: 04 Sep. 2001 Paper Title: Mississippi Computational Web Portal Author(s): Thomasz Haupt et al. Referee: Matthias Mueller, Edgar Gabriel, Michael Resch Address: HLRS Allmandring 30 70550 Stuttgart Germany Referee Recommendations. Please indicate overall recommendations here, and details in following sections. accepted provided changes suggested are made D: Referee Comments (For Editor Only) ------------------------------------ E: Referee Comments (For Author and Editor) ------------------------------ The paper describes a highly interesting project with a focus on real applications for everyday use. The structure of the paper is poor and it is difficult for the interested reader to fully grasp the concept behind the web portal. It may be helpful to have the description of the MCWP as chapter 4 (now chapter 5) and only after having introduced the concepts go into the details with "Portal Design". Information about comparable projects and research work has to be included to show how MCWP compares to other work in the field. This should also be reflected in the referenced literature. It is obvious that the article was not yet formatted. We expect this to be done before the paper is published. Currently figure 2 is incomplete. All figures should be of much better quality. F: Presentation Changes In the very general introduction the author states that city planners do make extensive use of computers. In this generality this is probably wrong. It is also doubtful to see computational power as a reliable source of forecast for the stock market. In figure 1 the classification of the users into administrators, developers, operators and customer analysts is done. In the later paper only the general term "user" is utilized. It would be helpful to demonstrate the usefulness of this classification if this general term would be replaced by the more specific term defined above wherever applicable. In the description of the application descriptor it would be very interesting to get more details how the "information how to build it" is provided. In the description of the job descriptor the author refers to figure 3 showing the analyst interface. It is not clear how this corresponds to the job descriptor. The text in the screen shots of figure 2,3,4 and 5 is unreadable. .