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As of 2022, about 2.78 billion people in developing countries do not have access to the Internet. Lack of Internet access hinders economic growth, educational opportunities, and access to information and services. Recent initiatives to "connect the ...

Navigating the ever-expanding sea of scientific literature presents a daunting challenge for researchers seeking relevant and up-to-date information. Traditional citation recommendation systems, while well-intentioned, often fall short due to their ...

The internet infrastructure is steadily improving each year in the developed world, offering higher data rates at affordable prices. An unfortunate consequence of this is that modern webpages have increased in complexity, often including over 100 objects ...

According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), about 33% of the world's population does not have access to the Internet as of 2023. This lack of connectivity deprives people of educational and employment opportunities and limits their ...

This essay will briefly narrate the relationship between my professional growth and the evolution of web technology and the internet, especially in Brazil, where I live. I start by briefly discussing my background and how I came to be involved with ...

Big data are everywhere. World Wide Web is an example of these big data. It has become a vast data production and consumption platform, at which threads of data evolve from multiple devices, by different human interactions, over worldwide locations, ...

Associating information by means of linking it is a universal concept of human thinking, and by constructivist means, a possible way of learning through exploring and constructing individual information spaces related to a topic or cross topics. An ...

In this paper we summarized the main historical steps in making the Web, its foundational principles and its evolution. First we mention some of the influences and streams of thought that interacted to bring the Web about. Then we recall that its ...

Modern e-business policy aims to better frame and steer progress and advancements towards a legal and security aware framework. However, a large percentage of cases neglects the adoption of good security practices, exposing customers to potential ...

Tabs have become integral to browsing the Web yet have changed little since their introduction nearly 20 years ago. In contrast, the internet has gone through dramatic changes, with users increasingly moving from navigating to websites to exploring ...

Fifty years since the beginning of the Internet, and three decades of the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model and the World Wide Web mark an opportune time to take stock and consider how hypermedia has developed, and in which direction it might be headed. ...

The Web, as envisaged by its inventors, was founded on the idea of hyperlinks. Derived from the notion of hypertext in literary theory, a hyperlink is a relation rather than an object. It is a system of connections that connects distant pieces of text, ...

The Web, as envisaged by its inventors, was founded on the idea of hyperlinks. Derived from the notion of hypertext in literary theory, a hyperlink is a relation rather than an object. It is a system of connections that connects distant pieces of text, ...

Museum libraries came late to the digitization party - primarily because of perceived copyright issues. Since 2010 the three libraries of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) have embarked on a series of niche, boutique digitization projects, ...

We contend that context information of Internet clients can help to efficiently manage a variety of underlying resources for different Internet services and systems. We therefore propose a resource distribution framework that provides quality of ...

People populate the web with content relevant to their lives, content that millions of others rely on for information and guidance. However, the web is not a perfect rep- resentation of lived experience: some topics appear in greater proportion online ...

With the goal of harvesting all information about a given entity, in this paper, we try to harvest all matching documents for a given query submitted on a search engine. The objective is to retrieve all information about for instance "Michael Jackson", "...

Media uploads and downloads, even those on the order of a few hundred kilobytes, commonly fail when attempted over lossy, low-bandwidth, and high latency connections. These conditions, which are common for networks in rural, resource-poor areas, result ...

Social media monitoring is now an essential part of brand management, political science, and news production. Automatic tweet ranking and content recommendation methods are required, in order to support human analysts in deriving useful insights from ...

With the development of the Semantic Web (SW), the creation of ontologies to formally conceptualize our understanding of various domains has widely increased in number. However, the conceptual and terminological differences (a.k.a semantic heterogeneity ...