{"title":"XML content management based on object-relational database technology","authors":"Budi Surjanto, N. Ritter, H. Loeser","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882377","url":null,"abstract":"XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a textual markup language designed for the creation of self-describing documents which contain textual data combined with structural information describing the structure of the textual data. We introduce XCoP (XML Content Repository) as a repository which is based on an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) and improves content management of XML documents, thereby exploiting their structural information. It allows users to reuse and process the textual portions of document contents, called fragments, which are flexibly configurable. Moreover, it enables collaborative development of documents and facilitates synchronization of fragment modification and versioning. Thus, XCoP offers comprehensive content management functionality by taking advantage of the availability of structural information.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"31 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125817822","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":"Conflict control locking in distributed cooperative graphics editors","authors":"Liyin Xue, Kang Zhang, Chengzheng Sun","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882418","url":null,"abstract":"Communication latency presents a major challenge to achieving high responsiveness for Internet based cooperative editing systems. The authors propose conflict control locking (post-locking) schemes for conflict resolution in real time object based cooperative graphics editors. With these schemes, no locking request is needed before applying an editing operation to an object, instead, a lock will automatically be generated by the system if a conflict occurs. Lock ownership assigning rules are devised for the schemes. With a specific post-locking approach, algorithms and implementation techniques such as lock synchronisation detection, voting, and group intention realisation, are discussed in detail.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114288018","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":"Smart-Web","authors":"J. Walker, G. Bryan","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882875","url":null,"abstract":"The problems associated with the management of Internet sites that require dynamic content or constant changes has led to the production of the article. http://www.smart-city.com.au is a local government Internet site which has made use of Smart-Web to alleviate the bottleneck that is encountered at the Web master when highly dynamic Web content most be altered. It was found that such content could be much move easily handled if the owners of the data had access to change both the data and the structure of the site. The Smart-Web menuing system has been in use since September 1999 and can be viewed at http://www.smart-city.com.au.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130363731","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":"Real-time quiz functions for dynamic group guidance in distance learning systems","authors":"Akira Okada, H. Tarumi, Y. Kambayashi","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882879","url":null,"abstract":"One of the serious problems of distance learning systems is how to teach many students on an individual basis. The authors design an educational method, dynamic group guidance using quiz functions for network based lecturing, and present an implementation method. Using the dynamic group guidance function, the system groups students automatically according to the results of quizzes and a teacher can guide each group individually. Supported by the system, therefore, a teacher can guide every student in a lecture efficiently according to his/her own level of understanding. We have realized the system using two technologies: user profiling and software agents.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"151 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121516648","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":"A cognitive model for adaptive hypermedia systems","authors":"Lina García-Cabrera, J. Parets-Llorca","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882850","url":null,"abstract":"Like other authors, we believe that hypermedia systems, and especially the World Wide Web, can increase and improve their functionality by means of making the semantics of the information system structure explicit. In this paper, we justify the need for a cognitive model in the conception of hypermedia systems. A semantic-dynamic model is presented that provides a complete, adaptive and evolving control of the development and maintenance of hyper-documents and an understandable navigation.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124227353","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":"WhatNext: a prediction system for Web requests using n-gram sequence models","authors":"Zhong-Ming Su, Qiang Yang, Ye Lu, HongJiang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882395","url":null,"abstract":"As an increasing number of users access information on the Web, there is a great opportunity to learn from the server logs to learn about the users' probable actions in the future. We present an n-gram based model to utilize path profiles of users from very large data sets to predict the users' future requests. Since this is a prediction system, we cannot measure the recall in a traditional sense. We, therefore, present the notion of applicability to give a measure of the ability to predict the next document. Our model is based on a simple extension of existing point-based models for such predictions, but our results show for n-gram based prediction when n is greater than three, we can increase precision by 20% or more for two realistic Web logs. Also we present an efficient method that can compress our model to 30% of its original size so that the model can be loaded in main memory. Our result can potentially be applied to a wide range of applications on the Web, including pre-sending, pre-fetching, enhancement of recommendation systems as well as Web caching policies. Our tests are based on three realistic Web logs. Our algorithm is implemented in a prediction system called WhatNext, which shows a marked improvement in precision and applicability over previous approaches.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127603941","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":"XML Schema Directory: a data structure for XML data processing","authors":"E. Kotsakis, Klemens Böhm","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882376","url":null,"abstract":"The problem addressed in this paper is the execution of XML queries over a large collection of XML documents. This paper concentrates on how to develop the necessary infrastructure to effectively manipulate XML data and it proposes a data structure, named the XML Schema Directory (XSD), as an access means to XML repositories. The aim of XSD is to accelerate query processing by quickly finding the relevant set of XML documents for a given query. This is obtained by considering only a small number of relative XML schemata and consequently a limiting number of XML documents, rather than the entire corpus of XML documents. XML schema similarity is introduced as a way to determine the relevance among XML documents which belong to the same knowledge category. The proposed algorithms for maintaining the XSD structure do not require reorganisation and they may be efficiently used in practice. An alternative advantage of the XSD structure is that it may also be used as a method for facilitating browsing.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131954616","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":"Synchronous distance education: enhancing speaking skills via Internet-based real time technology","authors":"Yuping Wang, Chengzheng Sun","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882876","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on an investigation into one of the most urgent problems facing distance language education: the problem of lack of exposure to speaking practice in the target language. The Open Learning Chinese Program taught at Griffith University is used as a case study. Following a discussion on issues relating to distance education for languages such as the indispensability of technology to learning languages in a distance mode, and the importance of communicative competence, the paper moves on to an examination of the capabilities of Internet based real time technology. Two major indications can be generated from this research: real time technology can help solve the problem of insufficient exposure to speaking practice, and a historical convergence of distance and traditional campus based education toward a networked education can be expected.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130060847","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}
Changjie Tang, Rynson W. H. Lau, Qing Li, Huabei Yin, Tong Li, D. Kilis
{"title":"Personalized courseware construction based on Web data mining","authors":"Changjie Tang, Rynson W. H. Lau, Qing Li, Huabei Yin, Tong Li, D. Kilis","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882881","url":null,"abstract":"In order to adapt the teaching in accordance to an individual student's ability in a distance learning environment, a method to construct personalized courseware is proposed by building a personalized Web tutor tree and mining both context and structure of the courseware. The concept of Web tutor objects and the notion of similarity are proposed. Five algorithms, including Naive Algorithm for tutor topic tree and Level-generate Algorithm to generate a Web tutor topic of K+1 levels, and the experimental results are presented.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134316122","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":"Development of Web customize system for sharing educational resources","authors":"Youji Ochi, Y. Yano, Riko Wakita","doi":"10.1109/WISE.2000.882877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISE.2000.882877","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the Internet has become very widely used and the number of Web pages has been increasing. The authors believe that it is possible for many Web pages to become educational materials. Therefore, they focus on a learning environment using Web pages. They propose a novel framework called WECE (Web based Educational Customize Environment). WECE adds knowledge (annotations, questions, answers, etc.) to any Web pages. WECE is a new approach that introduces a customizing layer model into WWW systems. In addition, the authors develop a prototype WECE system which is called \"Web-Retracer\". Introducing Web-Retracer to a classroom may reduce a teacher's burden in selecting teaching materials for the learners. The teacher can select the contents of the teaching materials without considering the learner's level.","PeriodicalId":178159,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130762729","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}