{"title":"Context Aware Retrieval of Health Information on the Web","authors":"Juan M. Silva, J. Favela","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.10","url":null,"abstract":"Although search engines are a valuable tool to find information on the Web, sometimes it is hard for the users to find relevant and important information for them. This is often a result of traditional search engines' lack of awareness about the user's context. This becomes a very important issue when people search for health related information. In this paper we present a search tool that helps users to find relevant health information on the Web, using data from personal health records as context in order to deliver results that apply to the user's current conditions. We evaluated this tool with 18 subjects and results from such evaluation are discussed","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123630097","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":"Ontology Solution for Communicating Heterogeneous Negotiation Agents in a Web-based Environment","authors":"Maricela Claudia Bravo Contreras, J. C. Hernández","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.22","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional negotiation systems have been implemented using agent architectures, where agents communicate exchanging negotiation primitives generated by each system, based on particular language definitions implicitly encoded, giving different syntax and semantics to their messages. In this paper we address the problem of communicating heterogeneous negotiation agents in a Web-based environment, considering differences in their language implementations. Our research is based in the development of an ontology solution for describing and sharing negotiation primitives; and a translator module which is executed only when a not understood event occurs. We executed experiments in an electronic marketplace architecture, where heterogeneous agents participate in negotiation processes. The results of experiments show that the proposed solution improves the communication between negotiation agents","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129278752","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":"OWeB: A Framework for Offline Web Browsing","authors":"G. Ananthanarayanan, S. Blagsvedt, K. Toyama","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.25","url":null,"abstract":"Internet browsing is highly dependent on the real-time network availability and speed. This becomes a significant constraint when browsing over slow and intermittent networks. In this paper, we describe a readily deployable system designed for Web browsing over slow, intermittent networks - OWeB, that is minimally dependent on the real-time network availability and requires no changes on the part of the Web servers. The system subscribes to really simple syndication (RSS) feeds from Web servers and pre-fetches all new content as specified in the feed. Since the RSS feeds are published by Web servers they give accurate information about the new and updated content. Efficiency of network usage is achieved by employing standard techniques to handle intermittent networks, and near-complete utilization of all downloaded content results in better resilience in case of interrupted data downloads. We observed a co-relation between the items in an RSS feed and the homepage of the corresponding Web site (i.e.) the feed items essentially define the content section of the homepage. As part of OWeB, we developed an algorithm for automatically extracting the template of home pages and then locally stitching the feed items into the template. This results in Web sites being up-to-date and fully available offline and bandwidth savings, as we only need to download the RSS feed to construct the homepage","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131231096","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}
Andre Rodrigues da Silva, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima
{"title":"z9: An Alternative Approach to Collaborative Navigation","authors":"Andre Rodrigues da Silva, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.40","url":null,"abstract":"The search for relevant information on the Web is a personalized discovery process. In this process each person aggregates new information to the border of what he or she already knows. Finding relevant information is also related to the user history, being driven by his or her intentional selection of documents to access. This paper presents a collaborative navigation tool, called z9, whose main purpose is to selectively transfer anonymous navigation information among a group of users, based on identified user similarities. These similarities are the starting point for the presentation of exploration paths that potentially lead to relevant information","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116735483","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 Model-based Awareness Approach for Synchronous Collaborative Sessions on the Web","authors":"L. Peralta, A. M. G. Silva","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.2","url":null,"abstract":"Awareness describes the knowledge acquired by a member of a collaborative session about the activities of the other members of this session. This paper presents the main aspects of the development of an awareness tool based on an information-oriented coordination model for synchronous collaboration sessions. This tool is supported by an adaptive layered architecture which is based on collaborative extensions of Java language, Java 3D and XML possibilities in terms of data structuring. The application field is related to the execution of a project review for the distributed collaborative design, which is applied to a spatial-domain scenario from the European project DSE (distributed system engineering)","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129826574","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":"Reactivity-based Scheduling Approaches For Internet Services","authors":"Leonardo Silva, A. Pereira, Wagner Meira Jr","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.30","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the characteristics of Internet services workloads is a crucial step to improve the quality of service offered to Web users. One aspect that is usually neglected during a performance evaluation is the user reactivity, i.e., how the users react to variable server response time. This paper addresses the use of reactivity to improve the quality of service (QoS) of Internet services. We propose and evaluate two new scheduling approaches: the patient-first impatient-next (PFIN), and the impatient-first patient-next (IFPN). We design and implement the USAR-QoS simulator that allows the evaluation of QoS strategies considering the dynamic interaction between client and server sides. We simulate the new strategies using a TPC-W-based workload. The experiments show the benefits of the reactive policies which can result in better QoS for Internet services, improving the user satisfaction","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127313219","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":"Semantic Contexts in the Internet","authors":"E. Ramírez, R. Brena","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.33","url":null,"abstract":"In many Internet applications, such as Web searches, contexts are important because each search is done with a specific context in mind, and results outside that context are seen by the user as irrelevant. By measuring joint keyword occurrences in Web pages, around our notion of \"semantic contexts\" we propose an infrastructure for semantically characterizing contextual information in the Internet. Semantic contexts could have many practical uses, such as focusing Internet searches in such a way that results would be much more relevant to users than with search engines. Semantic contexts could also be linked to semantic Web definitions, such as ontologies, giving a way to leverage the marginal semantic Web","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114393314","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}
Adam Mikeal, Cody Green, A. Maslov, Scott Phillips, J. Leggett
{"title":"Preserving the Scholarly Side of the Web","authors":"Adam Mikeal, Cody Green, A. Maslov, Scott Phillips, J. Leggett","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.28","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents results of a case study that addresses many issues surrounding the difficult task of preservation in a digital library. We focus on a subset of these issues as they apply to the preservation of scholarly articles encoded in Web standards. We also describe the two common preservation mechanisms, emulation and migration, as well as our selection of the latter for our particular case. Finally, we compare two approaches to migration, automatic and manual, and discuss their strengths and weaknesses in our context. We show that consistent use of open standards leads to more efficient migration processes and issue a \"call to arms\" to the digital preservation community to ensure that scholarly material on the Web can be preserved for future generations","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116465966","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":"Describing Group Tasks in Multi-User Systems","authors":"V. Penichet, M. Lozano, J. A. Gallud","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.12","url":null,"abstract":"Task modelling is especially important when dealing with collaborative systems in which the number of users and tasks increases and the last ones became much more complex due to their collaborative nature. In this paper we propose a metamodel to describe tasks and group task for multi-user systems in order to make a precise characterization of the different kind of tasks involved in these environments","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126775215","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-enabled Temporal OLAP","authors":"A. Vaisman, Adrian Izquierdo, Marcelo Ktenas","doi":"10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2006.37","url":null,"abstract":"Commercial OLAP systems usually consider OLAP dimensions as static entities. In practice, dimension updates are often necessary in order to adapt the multidimensional database to changing requirements. Query languages are then needed to retrieve historical information from a data warehouse. Although many proposals addressing temporal OLAP exist, no one supports full operation over the World Wide Web. After introducing a temporal data model supporting historical dimensions and fact table versioning, we present a three-tier architecture based on Web services, SOAP and XML, allowing efficient querying over the Web. In this architecture, XML metadata is stored at the application server in the form of XML documents containing the data warehouse structure. This allows addressing most of the requests (navigation through time, updates, and queries) without accessing the data warehouse. We present our implementation, and also discuss query processing issues, like answering historical queries using materialized views","PeriodicalId":339667,"journal":{"name":"2006 Fourth Latin American Web Congress","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126064664","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}