{"title":"Tagging users based on Twitter lists","authors":"Yuto Yamaguchi, T. Amagasa, H. Kitagawa","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.048526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.048526","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of tagging users in Twitter, one of the most popular microblogs. Although there are an enormous number of Twitter users, some are particularly influential regarding certain topics (e.g., politics, sports). These users often transmit useful information about their topics. For example, a user familiar with political issues often transmits useful information about the latest political news. To obtain useful information, therefore, it is very important to know these user topics. To discover user topics, we propose a user tagging method using Twitter lists, the official Twitter function for making and sharing user lists. From our observations, users included in the same list were likely to have posted on the same topic. This topic was often described by the list name. For example, the list named 'politicians-list' has politicians as its members. For this reason, our proposed method regards list names as sequences of tags and assigns them to list members. Experiments conducted using two datasets showed that our proposed method works effectively in the user profiling domain and the user ranking domain.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117298473","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":"Mining potential research synergies from co-authorship graphs using power graph analysis","authors":"Iraklis Varlamis, G. Tsatsaronis","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.048520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.048520","url":null,"abstract":"Bibliographic databases are a prosperous field for data mining research and social network analysis. They contain rich information, which can be analysed across different dimensions (e.g., author, year, venue, and topic) and can be exploited in multiple ways. The representation and visualisation of bibliographic databases as graphs and the application of data mining techniques can help us uncover interesting knowledge concerning potential synergies between researchers, possible matchings between researchers and venues, candidate reviewers for a paper or even the ideal venue for presenting a research work. In this paper, we propose a novel representation model for bibliographic data, which combines co-authorship and content similarity information, and allows for the formation of scientific networks. Using a graph visualisation tool from the biological domain, we are able to provide comprehensive visualisations that help us uncover hidden relations between authors and suggest potential synergies between researchers or groups.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130029361","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 distributed recommender system architecture","authors":"P. Giannikopoulos, C. Vassilakis","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.048517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.048517","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary internet architectures, including server farms and blog aggregators, web log data may be scattered among multiple cooperating peers. In order to perform content personalisation through provision of recommendations on such architectures, it is necessary to employ a recommendation algorithm; however, the majority of such algorithms are centralised, necessitating excessive data transfers and exhibiting performance issues when the number of users or the volume of data increase. In this paper, we propose an approach where the clickstream information is distributed to a number of peers, which cooperate for discovering frequent patterns and for generating recommendations, introducing: a) architectures that allow the distribution of both the content and the clickstream database to the participating peers; b) algorithms that allow collaborative decisions on the recommendations to the users, in the presence of scattered log information. The proposed approach may be employed in various domains, including digital libraries, social data, server farms and content distribution networks.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130604634","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 data-centric approach to feed search in blogs","authors":"F. S. Tsai","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.048519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.048519","url":null,"abstract":"The explosive growth of blogs creates a critical demand for information retrieval techniques to effectively search for required and meaningful information. This paper studied the blog distillation and feed search task in the TREC Blog Track, which was designed to search for the relevant feeds which have a principal and recurring interest in a particular topic or query. In this paper, a novel data-centric approach is proposed which achieved good results compared to others in the TREC Blog Track.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116146625","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}
Mohammed Al-Badawi, H. Ramadhan, Siobhán North, B. Eaglestone
{"title":"A performance evaluation of a new bitmap-based XML processing approach over RDBMS","authors":"Mohammed Al-Badawi, H. Ramadhan, Siobhán North, B. Eaglestone","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.046871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.046871","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a comprehensive performance analysis of PACD; a novel bitmap-based XML processing approach introduced earlier to resolve several performance issues identified in existing XML database technology. The study evaluated three performance aspects of XML database techniques including query processing, XML updates and scalability. Each of these aspects has been tested using various measures and compared with some representative alternative approaches. Despite its narrow domain for the order-access queries and its high cost in terms of the number IO-read operations, PACD almost performed well in terms of query processing, resource consumption during XML updates and has shown acceptable scalability over a variety of XML database categories.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"740 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122006494","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":"Mobility-supporting data management for location-based mobile systems: the special case of single category location repositories","authors":"James E. Wyse","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.046870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.046870","url":null,"abstract":"Location-based mobile applications require timely generation of user-centric proximities from application-relevant repositories of business locations. The proximity generation requirement is poorly served by conventional query resolution methods which are prone to response time degradation as repositories experience growth. This article reports research on a location-aware method (LAM) specifically devised to resolve queries for rapid proximity generation. Three operational concerns performance, scalability, and manageability provide a basis on which a specific form of LAM, linkcell-based LAM, is examined. Previous evaluative work on linkcell-based LAM focused on multiple category repositories (MCRs) in which business locations are explicitly classified using a predefined set of business categories. The research reported here concerns single category repositories (SCRs), an important special case in which no predefined set of business categories is used. Results show how a reformulated location-aware method may be used to manage SCRs and suggest the means by which scalability is achieved and proximity generation performance is optimised.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127517388","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":"Designing a graphical interface for creativity support tools for designers: a case study","authors":"Jieun Kim, C. Bouchard, J. Omhover, A. Aoussat","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.046872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.046872","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a co-designing, an iterative methodology to design graphical user interface for creativity support tools for designers. Given the high level of expectation from designers, the interface quality was one of the most challenging aspects of the work, in conjunction with the utility of the functionalities. An iterative design and evaluation process was used to create the icon-based interface, during which the needs of the designers and the functionalities of the system were integrated until a complete operational prototype emerged. This process provided three sequential prototypes. In order to achieve this, we derived qualitative and quantitative results from various methods: creative sessions, semantic and emotional evaluations, questionnaires, semi-directive interviews, subjective performance assessments, longitudinal tests, and focus group assessments. Finally, our iterative design and evaluation process can be considered to be a very efficient means of integrating end users' spontaneous feedback about icon redesigns in the early phases of development. The design outcome enabled the end users to ensure that key features of the creativity support tool were both usable and appealing.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133457467","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 mediation between ontologies","authors":"Tamer Hossam, M. Zaki, K. Badran","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.046869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.046869","url":null,"abstract":"Mediators describe elements that handle interoperability problems between different web services. A particular type of mediators is the data mediator, which is used to solve the terminological mismatches between ontologies. Ontology is a specification of conceptualisation which represents a key element of Semantic Web Services (SWS). Formally, it specifies the terminology used to describe a SWS functionality and behaviour. When the web services interact with each other and there are some requests needed from these services, the instance data must be translated from terms of a service into terms of the other service which is called instance transformation. This paper presents a design and an implementation of a mediator, to handle interoperability between two different ontologies. Different types of transformation services are presented and several transformation operations are explained in order to enable the mapping process. A new tool is proposed which has a facility to build ontologies with the ability for creating mediators. The proposed mediator can exploit many types of transformation services. The advantages of that mediator over the previous ones are explained and its implementation is investigated.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115249569","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":"Evaluation of a web recommender system in electronic and mobile tourism","authors":"D. Gavalas, M. Kenteris","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.045763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.045763","url":null,"abstract":"Recommender systems are software frameworks that employ a specific type of information filtering technique, aiming at recommending information items or social elements that are likely to be of interest to the user. Herein, we present the evaluation results of the recently prototyped tourism recommender system (TRS). We followed a formal evaluation process to validate the usability of two versions of the TRS by users in realistic environments; the first is a typical web recommender system (wTRS), while the second is a system that enables tourist content recommendations addressed to mobile users (mTRS). The usability evaluation tests have been undertaken at the municipality of Mytilene, Greece.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125828228","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}
Santiago Robles, J. Fernández, Andrés Fortier, G. Rossi, S. Gordillo
{"title":"Improving the model view controller paradigm in the web","authors":"Santiago Robles, J. Fernández, Andrés Fortier, G. Rossi, S. Gordillo","doi":"10.1504/IJWET.2012.045764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2012.045764","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, web applications have changed from static, information-based web pages to dynamic, service-oriented software. As they evolved, these web applications started to show features that used to appear only in desktops applications. We have reached a point in connection speed and browser maturity where there is only one thing preventing the next big step: the ability of web servers to send information to the client without a previous request. In this paper, we present Meteoroid, a framework that allows a system running in the server to send information to web browsers without a client request. On top of this functionality we have built a full model-view-controller protocol, allowing us to create web applications that completely mimic desktop ones.","PeriodicalId":396746,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Web Eng. Technol.","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126558265","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}