E. Kirda, C. Kerer, M. Jazayeri, H. Gall, R. Kurmanowytsch
{"title":"Evolution of an organizational Web site: migrating to XML/XSL","authors":"E. Kirda, C. Kerer, M. Jazayeri, H. Gall, R. Kurmanowytsch","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988787","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent of the World Wide Web, many organizational Web sites were initially created by a group of individuals who were interested in this new technology. These people were (and still are) often referred to as Webmasters and designed,the pages according to their taste and picked the information that they found important. Many sites were built without a systematic approach or consideration for future requirements. As the World Wide Web increased in importance, many of these Web sites grew, in an ad-hoc fashion and they became increasingly difficult to manage. Today, Web site design and management are further complicated by new emerging requirements such as multi-lingual and mobile device support. In this paper, we first discuss the evolution of an organizational Web site, give a brief overview of the site's history and discuss the problems the organization faced. We then present some of our experiences and lessons learned in re-engineering the site from HTML to XML/XSL. Many Web sites will have to make similar transitions once the XML/XSL standards firmly establish themselves as the Web technologies of choice. One of the goals of this paper is that other organizations should be able to benefit from our experiences.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130639559","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}
{"title":"Knowledge representation for Web based services in a multi-cultural environment","authors":"Hiranmay Ghosh, N. Rajarathnam, S. Chaudhury","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988779","url":null,"abstract":"With the Internet being a global resource, Web based applications need to break the barriers of language and culture. The core of an intelligent Web based application comprises an ontological description of the domain. A domain ontology needs a medium for expression, which usually consists of terminology borrowed from a natural language. Thus, a knowledge based application becomes susceptible to linguistic and cultural context. The authors present a novel knowledge representation technique that distinguishes between the abstract concepts in a domain and their expressions. It can associate expressions from different languages with the concepts in an ontology network. Non-textual symbols and media property specifications can also be used to express the concepts using this technique. The resulting ontology can thus be used in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural environment. An RDF based language is used as a vehicle for the knowledge representation scheme.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124422250","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}
{"title":"Preparing the ground for Website metrics research","authors":"P. Warren, C. Gaskell, C. Boldyreff","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988789","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet is a new arena for software development, and has attracted much attention from all sides of the computing community because of the power offered by its distributed form and flexibility. There has been substantial interest in finding appropriate techniques to take advantage of its novel characteristics, which include multi platform operation and accessibility for all. The paper identifies a number of coherent research areas drawn from software metrics, HCI and hypermedia research, from the viewpoint of a research team interested in Web site metrics. These coherent areas seem to have traditionally had little communication with each other. However by changing perspective and considering each area individually and also their overlap, a body of knowledge is evident that provides the fundamental basis for Web site metrics, and hence for Web site evolution research.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128226140","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}
G. Antoniol, G. Casazza, G. D. Lucca, M. D. Penta, E. Merlo
{"title":"Predicting Web site access: an application of time series","authors":"G. Antoniol, G. Casazza, G. D. Lucca, M. D. Penta, E. Merlo","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988786","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet and Web pervasiveness are changing the landscape of several different areas ranging from information gathering/managing and commerce to software development. This paper presents a case study where time series were adopted to forecast future Web site access. In order to measure the applicability of time series to the prediction of Web site accesses, an experimental activity was performed. The log-access file of an academic Web site (http://www.ing.unisannio.it) was analyzed and its data used as test set. The analyzed Web site contains general information about the Faculty of Engineering of University of Sannio at Benevento (Italy). Preliminary results were encouraging: the average number of connections per week could be predicted with an acceptable error.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127910484","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}
A. Mehta, Piedad Rodriguez, Ricardo Rodriguez, G. Heineman
{"title":"The Content Manager: a tool to develop multilingual and multi-preference Web sites","authors":"A. Mehta, Piedad Rodriguez, Ricardo Rodriguez, G. Heineman","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988781","url":null,"abstract":"The authors outline their experience in developing a multilingual and multiple preference Web site. In particular we describe Content Manager, a tool we developed to support the implementation of a business to consumer (B2C) international Web site. We also describe the business requirements and challenges that we encountered. There are many commercial tools for managing a Web site's content, but these tools are unable to manage the complexity of diverse languages' taxation frameworks, and cultural systems. We found that by separating the content from the source code (as supposed to embedding text within the Web page), we were able to focus on the development of the Web site instead of worrying about the differences between target countries. Content Manager allowed us to maintain this separation and eased the development process.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123602211","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}
{"title":"Maintenance support for web sites: a case study","authors":"P. Linos, E. Ososanya, Harris Natarajan","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988788","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on results gathered during a case study using a Web maintenance tool called Perlbot. The main objective of the study is to observe the history of modifications made on various Web documents. Based on selected metrics, we collect data with respect to how such sites are maintained and evolve. The data gathered support our hypothesis that there is a worldwide tendency to accumulate large numbers of stale documents over long periods of time. Moreover, our quantitative results reveal inconsistent Web maintenance activities spanning over various international sites.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122457033","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}
{"title":"Issues in accessing Web sites from mobile devices","authors":"S. Tilley, Bas Toeter, Kenny Wong","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988791","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile devices such as PDAs and cellular phones that offer Internet access are proliferating. Due to the many unique characteristics of these devices, such as their small screen size and limited network connectivity, existing Web sites may have to undergo significant evolution to support this type of mobile client. The paper outlines some of the issues in accessing Web sites from mobile devices, such as the Apple Newton, the Compaq iPAQ, and WAP-enabled cell phones. These issues are based on our experiences as both users of mobile devices and as content providers.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114523927","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}
C. Boldyreff, E. Burd, Joanna Donkin, Sarah Marshall
{"title":"The case for the use of plain English to increase web accessibility","authors":"C. Boldyreff, E. Burd, Joanna Donkin, Sarah Marshall","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988784","url":null,"abstract":"Within the endeavour of work to increase the accessibility of Web pages, little attention has been paid to the contribution that simplifying the textual content could make. Furthermore, attention needs to be given to alternative renderings of Web page content as the Web becomes more graphically and aurally orientated. This paper describes the role that plain language can play in supporting accessibility, particularly where textual content must be translated into sign language or speech, where plain language is clear and simple language which is both readable and understandable by the audience for which it is intended. It concludes that the use of plain language in Web sites can aid accessibility for many categories of user including those with hearing or visual disabilities, or both as is the case with the deaf-blind population, but also for the population as a whole.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"1988 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130640310","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}
{"title":"Web site maintenance with software-engineering tools","authors":"Johannes Martin, Ludger Martin","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988795","url":null,"abstract":"Internet information providers need to continually analyse and update their offerings in order to survive in today's marketplace. As Web sites and their information content grow larger, this becomes a more and more difficult task. Software engineers have had to deal with the problem of understanding and maintaining complex and interconnected documents (in the form of program source code) for a long time, and a number of tools exist to support them in this task. The paper describes commonalities in the maintenance of software systems and Web sites and presents a case study in the application of a software reengineering tool for Web site analysis.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130749713","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}
{"title":"Towards a better understanding of Web applications","authors":"A. Hassan, R. Holt","doi":"10.1109/WSE.2001.988793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WSE.2001.988793","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a framework to recover the architecture of Web applications. Developers can visualize and navigate the recovered, architecture. Furthermore, they can analyze the architecture to gain a better understanding of their Web application. The Portable Bookshelf (PBS) environment combines much of the knowledge and techniques developed over the last decade in program understanding. It has been used to recover the design of large applications such as Linux, Apache and Mozilla. The paper describes the reuse and extension of the capabilities of PBS to support the design recovery of Web applications. We developed a set of tools capable of parsing and extracting relations between the components of Web applications. Also, we modified PBS's visualizer to handle the heterogenous nature of the Web.","PeriodicalId":102316,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution. WSE 2001","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130773542","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}