{"title":"Finding buying guides with a Web carnivore","authors":"Reiner Kraft, Raymie Stata","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250286","url":null,"abstract":"Research on buying behavior indicates that buying guides perform an important role in the overall buying process. However, while the Web contains many buying guides, finding those guides is difficult to impossible for the average consumer. Web search engines typically index many buying guides on many topics, but simple queries do not often return these results. Given this, we built a Web carnivore that finds buying guides on behalf of consumers. Web carnivores leverage the crawling, scrubbing, indexing and ranking activities of Web search engines (the \"herbivores\") to provide more specific services. Ours finds buying guides by issuing machine-generated queries to google and filtering the results. We describe our system and quantitatively compares it to a basic search engine. Our system almost always returns more buying guides, often twice as many. Our user study also suggests that we return better buying guides. Finding buying guides is an instance of the more general problem of \"genre search;\" we point out novel aspects of our system that are applicable to a variety of genre-search problems.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123539916","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":"Alternative implementation techniques for Web text visualization","authors":"Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250298","url":null,"abstract":"We present an approach for building text visualizations that avoids using plug-ins or clients based on languages like Java. Instead we propose to make the search engine application more aware of the visualization process and use the Web browser standard features to do the rendering work. We demonstrate the ideas with a text visualization metaphor implementation that is part of a search engine.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134024963","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":"Finding related hubs and authorities","authors":"P. Chirita, D. Olmedilla, W. Nejdl","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250302","url":null,"abstract":"A new algorithm for finding hubs (and authorities) related to a specific Web page is presented. Various aspects have been investigated in this direction, like extensions of the HITS algorithm or modifications to the pagerank algorithm. Our focus is mainly oriented on computing hub scores, but the formulas for authority scores are almost always analogous.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127299266","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 accessibility, mobility and findability","authors":"B. White","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250312","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the issues of accessibility, mobility and findability as appropriate to a discussion of Web site or Web page interface usability. The goal of this paper is to emphasize the importance of these factors while providing attendees with sufficient vocabulary and conceptual knowledge to make appropriate design decisions.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131761435","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 retrieval","authors":"Ricardo Baeza-Yates","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250308","url":null,"abstract":"This tutorial covers the main concepts related to retrieving information from data structured in XML. The content is divided in three parts. The first covers the main concepts of XML, including defining, displaying and querying XML data. The second part addresses the challenges of retrieving information from XML data, in particular ranking and benchmarking. The last part covers indices for structure and their algorithms, focusing in the trade-off of expressivity vs. efficiency. Along the tutorial the state of the art of the above issues is emphasized, including current available software.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114925348","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 an ontology for software metrics and indicators as the foundation for a cataloging Web system","authors":"María de los Ángeles Martín, L. Olsina","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250288","url":null,"abstract":"So that the software and Web measurement field can become a more robust engineering discipline, it is mandatory to start reaching a common agreement between researchers and other stakeholders about primitive concepts such as attribute, metric, measure, measurement and calculation method, scale, elementary and global indicator, calculable concept, among others. There are various useful recently-issued ISO standards related to software quality models, measurement and evaluation processes, however, we observe sometimes a lack of a sound consensus among the same terms in different documents or sometimes absent terms. We present an ontology for software metrics and indicators-based as much as possible on the concepts of those standards, which can be useful to support different assurance processes, methods and tools in addition to being the foundation for our cataloging Web system [Olsina, L et al., (2003)]. Without sound and consensuated definitions it is difficult to assure metadata consistency and, ultimately, data values are comparable on the same basis.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"271 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121821173","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":"Methodological aspects in designing Web-based collaborative systems","authors":"José A. Aravena Reyes, M. Molina","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250306","url":null,"abstract":"We present methodological aspects related with the development of Web-based collaboration systems in design and education. Collaboration is highlighted as the fundamental aspect in the development of this kind of systems; it consists in a constructive and social process that is modeled in terms of protocols, which capture key acts of conversations involved in team working.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121655363","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}
Manoli Albert, V. Pelechano, Joan Fons, Gonzalo Rojas, Ó. Pastor
{"title":"Extracting knowledge from association relationships to build navigational models","authors":"Manoli Albert, V. Pelechano, Joan Fons, Gonzalo Rojas, Ó. Pastor","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250275","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze how the semantics of association relationships in OO conceptual modeling can help to build navigational models for Web applications. The work has been developed in the context of OOWS (a model-driven development method for building Web applications). We study some structural and behavioral properties of those conceptual abstractions in order to extract knowledge to be applied in the construction of navigational models. From this study, a set of design rules has been obtained. These rules help the modeler to build navigational models in a systematic way. The results of this work have improved the modeling and code generation processes introduced by OOWS.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117190757","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":"Policy and state based secure wrapper and its application to mobile agents","authors":"Alexander Binun, E. Gudes","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250278","url":null,"abstract":"Execution process in modern Web applications is usually represented as a partially ordered sequence of basic actions issued by a client (login, buy, exit, etc.; the login action usually precedes purchasing). Based on these actions, a finite automaton of fine-grained authorization checks, may be specified in a separate layer that is easily configurable for security needs of a particular application. In the Mobile case there may be two such state machines - one performing state-based authorization checks of the application execution process and the other performing such checks for the mobile agent execution process. Authorization checks of these machines may be both state-based and policy based, and the policies should distinguish between human clients and mobile agents cases. We develop the framework to specify and enforce finegrained state-based authorization checks of Web application execution, consisting of a Web browser (client) and a server. We adopt this framework to the mobile case so that state machines representing finegrained authorization checks of application and mobile agent execution are synchronized.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124015875","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":"Application modeling for the semantic Web","authors":"Fernanda Lima, D. Schwabe","doi":"10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LAWEB.2003.1250287","url":null,"abstract":"We present a method for the design and implementation of Web Applications for the semantic Web. Based on the \"object oriented hypermedia design method\" approach, we used ontology concepts to define an application conceptual model, extending the expressive power of the original method. The navigational model definitions use a query language capable of querying both schema and instances, enabling the specification of flexible access structures. Additionally, we propose the use of faceted access structures to improve the selection of navigational objects organized by multiple criteria. Finally, we present an implementation architecture that allows the direct use of the application specifications when deriving a final application implementation.","PeriodicalId":376743,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (IEEE Cat. No.03EX726)","volume":"33 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129634834","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}