Schema integration has been a long-standing challenge for the data-engineering community that has received steady attention over the past three decades. General-purpose integration approaches construct unified schemas that encompass all schema elements. ...

This work aimed to propose LDoW-PaN, a Linked Data presentation and navigation model focused on the average user. The LDoW-PaN model is an extension of the Dexter Hypertext Reference Model. Through the LDoW-PaN model, ordinary people—who have no ...

A user's behaviour when browsing a Web site contains clues to that user's experience. It is possible to record some of these behaviours automatically, and extract signals that indicate a user is having trouble finding information. This allows for Web ...

The REST architectural style has attracted a lot of interest from industry due to the nonfunctional properties it contributes to Web-based solutions. SOAP/WSDL-based services, on the other hand, provide tools and methodologies that allow the design and ...

Processing data on any sort of user interaction is well known to be cumbersome and mostly time consuming. In order to assist researchers in easily inspecting fine-grained browsing data, current tools usually display user interactions as mouse cursor ...

JavaScript is an interpreted programming language most often used for enhancing webpage interactivity and functionality. It has powerful capabilities to interact with webpage documents and browser windows, however, it has also opened the door for many ...

Automatic layout of tables is required in online applications because of the need to tailor the layout to the viewport width, choice of font, and dynamic content. However, if the table contains text, minimizing the height of the table for a fixed ...

We propose a new way of navigating the Web using interactive information visualizations, and present encouraging results from a large-scale Web study of a visual exploration system. While the Web has become an immense, diverse information space, it has ...

Using JavaScript and dynamic DOM manipulation on the client side of Web applications is becoming a widespread approach for achieving rich interactivity and responsiveness in modern Web applications. At the same time, such techniques---collectively known ...

Combating Web spam has become one of the top challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art spam-detection techniques are usually designed for specific, known types of Web spam and are incapable of dealing with newly appearing spam types ...

Inferring an appropriate DTD or XML Schema Definition (XSD) for a given collection of XML documents essentially reduces to learning deterministic regular expressions from sets of positive example words. Unfortunately, there is no algorithm capable of ...

Map search engines, such as Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, and Microsoft Live Maps, allow users to explicitly specify a target geographic location, either in keywords or on the map, and to search businesses, people, and other information of that location. In ...

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) have introduced powerful novel functionalities into the Web architecture, borrowed from client-server and desktop applications. The resulting platforms allow designers to improve the user's experience, by exploiting ...

We propose a new Web page transformation method to facilitate Web browsing on handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). In our approach, an original Web page that does not fit on the screen is transformed into a set of subpages, each ...

Tagging systems allow users to interactively annotate a pool of shared resources using descriptive strings called tags. Tags are used to guide users to interesting resources and help them build communities that share their expertise and resources. As ...

In the past decade, the World Wide Web has been subject to dramatic changes. Web sites have evolved from static information resources to dynamic and interactive applications that are used for a broad scope of activities on a daily basis. To examine the ...

This article addresses the problem of spam blog (splog) detection using temporal and structural regularity of content, post time and links. Splogs are undesirable blogs meant to attract search engine traffic, used solely for promoting affiliate sites. ...