Showing papers on "Web modeling published in 1995"

Network management gateway

Abstract: The present invention provides network management of a network or multiple networks, using a Web client, and including multimedia and hypermedia capability. The present invention provides a unified, remote, graphical, transparent interface for Web users, working at a Web client, to a variety of managed networks. The present invention receives requests from a Web client forwarded by a Web server and interacts with the managed networks and their associated objects to obtain information. The present invention then converts this information in real time to hypermedia document format in HTTP and HTML, and transmits this information to the Web client via the Web server, appearing to the client as information in a Web file. This permits a Web user to manage multiple networks and access multiple networks via a single Web client, thus providing a unification of the management interface for dissimilar managed networks, and devices.

W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web

Abstract: The World-Wide Web (WWW) is an ever growing, distributed, non-administered, global information resource. It resides on the worldwide computer network and allows access to heterogeneous information: text, image, video, sound and graphic data. Currently, this wealth of information is difficult to mine. One can either manually, slowly and tediously navigate through the WWW or utilize indexes and libraries which are built by automatic search engines (called knowbots or robots). We have designed and are now implementing a high level SQL-like language to support effective and flexible query processing, which addresses the structure and content of WWW nodes and their varied sorts of data. Query results are intuitively presented and continuously maintained when desired. The language itself integrates new utilities and existing Unix tools (e.g. grep, awk). The implementation strategy is to employ existing WWW browsers and Unix tools to the extent possible.

Guide to the Internet: The world wide web

Abstract: The world wide web provides a uniform, user friendly interface to the Internet. Web pages can contain text and pictures and are interconnected by hypertext links. The addresses of web pages are recorded as uniform resource locators (URLs), transmitted by hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and written in hypertext markup language (HTML). Programs that allow you to use the web are available for most operating systems. Powerful on line search engines make it relatively easy to find information on the web. Browsing through the web--"net surfing"--is both easy and enjoyable. Contributing to the web is not difficult, and the web opens up new possibilities for electronic publishing and electronic journals.

Creating a virtual classroom for interactive education on the Web

Abstract: The World-Wide Web provides new opportunities for distance education over the Internet The Web, when combined with other network tools, can be used to create a virtual classroom to bring together a community of learners for interactive education The Cornell Theory Center, a national center for high performance computing, is investigating the use of emerging network technologies for training computational scientists and researchers in the concepts of parallel processing This effort is being built on electronic educational materials already on the Web and will evaluate the effectiveness of various collaborative tools

PDA Web Browsers: Implementation Issues

Abstract: Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are not currently used as Web browsers. However, their portability and personal nature offer significant advantages over other environments. By directly addressing the perceived disadvantages of PDAs, we demonstrate that effective Web browsers can be developed using current technology.

The informatics superhighway: prototyping on the World Wide Web.

Abstract: We have experimented with developing a prototype Surgeon's Workstation which makes use of the World Wide Web client-server architecture. Although originally intended merely as a means for obtaining user feedback for use in designing a "real" system, the application has been adopted for use by our Department of Surgery. As they begin to use the application, they have suggested changes and we have responded. This paper illustrates some of the advantages we have found for prototyping with Web-based applications, including security aspects.

Web cataloguing through cache exploitation and steps toward consistency maintenance

Abstract: This paper presents a new Web cataloguing strategy based upon the automatic analysis of documents stored in a proxy server cache. This could be an elegant method of Web cataloguing as it creates no extra network load and runs completely automatically. Naturally such a mechanism will only reach a subset of Web documents, but at an institute such as the Alfred Wegener Institute, due to the fact that scientists tend to make quite good search engines, the cache usually contains large numbers of documents related to polar and marine research. Details of a database for polar, marine and global change research, based upon a cache scanning mechanism are given, and it is shown that it is becoming an increasingly useful resource. A problem with any collection of information about Web documents is that it quickly becomes old. Strategies have been developed to maintain the database consistency with respect to changes on the Web, while attempting to keep network load to a minimum. This has been found to provide a better quality of response and it appears to be keeping information in the database current. Such strategies are of interest to anyone attempting to create and maintain a Web document location resource.

Creating a web analysis and visualization environment

Abstract: Due to the rapid growth of the World-Wide Web, resource discovery has become an increasing problem. As an answer to the demand for information management, a third generation of World-Wide Web tools will evolve: Information gathering and processing agents. This paper describes WAVE (Web Analysis and Visualization Environment), a 3D interface for World-Wide Web information visualization and browsing. It uses the mathematical theory of concept analysis to conceptually cluster objects. So-called “conceptual scales” for attributes, such as location, title, keywords, topic, size, or modification time, provide a formal mechanism that automatically classifies and categorizes documents, creating a conceptual information space. A visualization shell serves as an ergonomically sound user interface for exploring this information space.

Integrating applications and the World-Wide Web

Abstract: This paper describes how to integrate the World-Wide Web (WWW) with applications. By means of the web widget, which is part of Hush, the WWW is made available to Tcl/Tk/Hush programmers. Apart from using WWW as part of an application, it also allows one to embed scripts into a web page. This results in a mutual integration of applications and the WWW. Both forms of integration will be described. Some new possibilities of embedded scripts such as inline MPEG, interactive games and navigation facilities will be discussed.

IndustryNet: a model for commerce on the World Wide Web

Abstract: In describing a Web-based on-line information gathering tool, the authors show how the system adapts to meet each user's needs and learns from user behaviour. One of the system that has begun to make good on the early predictions is the IndustryNet marketplace on the Web. IndustryNet provides several services for its users. It is a news service, an on-line trade journal that provides instant reader service information, a searchable archive of new product announcements, a searchable archive of design application cases, and a provider of interactive access to manufacturer and distributor information. We outline the IndustryNet approach to conducting commerce on the Internet. We examine how IndustryNet is enhancing the relationship between buyers/specifiers, manufacturers, and distributors. >

Web*-a technology to make information available on the Web

Abstract: The goal of the Information Sharing System (ISS) Project at the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) is to provide the means for an organization to effectively disseminate information. Thus enabling effective work in collaborative endeavors. Because corporate information exists in a variety of computer information repositories, such as databases, documents, drawings, and datafiles, it is imperative that these sources be integrated with an information sharing system to enable wider use. CERC's Web* (pronounced "WebStar") software, currently released into the public domain, can be used to integrate multiple information sources. Web* allows the exploitation of the World-Wide Web and the CORBA environment.

Towards an intelligent publishing environment

Abstract: This paper presents an environment for publishing information on the World-Wide Web (WWW). Previous work has pointed out that the explosive growth of the WWW is in part due to the ease with which information can be made available to Web users [23]. Yet this property can have negative impacts on the ability to find appropriate information as well as on the integrity of the information published. We present a prototype environment that facilitates the publishing of documents on the Web by automatically generating meta-information about the document, communicating this to a local scalable architecture, e.g. WHOIS + +, verifying the document's HTML compliance, maintaining referential integrity within the local database, and placing the document in a Web accessible area. Additionally, maintenance and versioning facilities are provided. This paper first discusses an idealized publishing environment, then describes our implementation, followed by a discussion of salient issues and future research areas.

Web-based access to an online atlas of anatomy: the Digital Anatomist Common Gateway Interface.

Abstract: A World Wide Web Common Gateway Interface package is described for accessing existing online interactive atlases of anatomy. The Web interface accesses the same 2-D and 3-D images of human neuroanatomy, knee anatomy and thoracic viscera that are currently accessed by a custom interactive atlas in distance learning courses. Although the Web interface is too slow to replace the existing atlas, it provides a parallel access path that has much broader potential for development of a distributed distance learning network in anatomy. By maintaining both access methods to the same information sources we continue to satisfy the fast interactivity needs for our local courses, while at the same time providing a migration path to the Web as the capabilities of Web browsers evolve.

World Wide Web Design Guide

Abstract: The World Wide Web is one of the fastest growing areas on the Internet. Users will learn how to design their own Web site with the World Wide Web Design Guide.

The World Wide Web Complete Reference

Abstract: Part 1 An introduction to the Web: what is the World Wide Web how to use this book getting connected using Web browsers turnkey access packages Web access through information services. Part 2 Creating Web pages: the phenomena of the home page the philosophy of a good Web page the language of the Web - HTML HTML editors linking and embedding integrating other Internet services creating a data entry form finding a home for your pages securing your pages and forms gathering statistics with your Web pages. Part 3 Advance connection to the Internet: establishing your presence on the Web protocols and alphabet soup digital connections taking care of formalities. Part 4 Business opportunities with the Web: selling Internet access creating HTML documents for money boarding Web pages on your system. Part 5 Interesting uses for the Web: Internet publishing other fun on the Web.

Build a Web site : the programmers' guide to creating, building, and maintaining a Web presence

Abstract: From the Publisher: In Build a Web Site, net Genesis shows you how to exploit the power of Web protocols and standards so you can create and implement a successful Web site, extend its functionality, and maximize its commercial potential. Whether you are a budding, ambitious computer user or an experienced, Web-savvy programmer, you'll find: how best to create a home page on the web; program code to enhance your web site; expert advice on hardware, software, and information providers; programming tips to help you write powerful clients and servers; and annotated specifications for HTTP, HTML, and URL standards and protocols.

Information Retrieval From The World Wide Web

Abstract: This dissertation is being presented as a partial requirement for the degree of Master of Software System Technology in the University of Sheffield The thesis on title “Information Retrieval From The World Wide Web” is undertaken from May to September 1995 The aim of this project is to design a system which uses the Web searching technology When this system is completed, it can be implemented to do indexing and searching any interested document that stored in the Web This application may give some benefits to its users especially to the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Ideally, this system is developed by using one of the software engineering approaches called “Incremental delivery strategy” The project began with the feasibility study of the techniques used in Information Retrieval and also the components involved in the World Wide Web and continued with the process of requirement analysis The designer chose to use the data flow diagram method in order to show the design of this system After the design was done, the system was implemented by using the C programming language and aided by the World Wide Web Library (or known as libwww) This dissertation describes the development stages of this system Problems faced and suggestions to recover were presented as discussions And other relevant information was attached as appendixes

Towards a uniform library of common code a presentation of the CERN World-Wide Web library

Abstract: This paper describes the current status of the World-Wide Web Library of Common Code 3 and the work done in order to start the convergence process towards a uniform Library. Currently many World-Wide Web applications are using different versions of the Library with a set of added functionality that is often either incompatible with the other versions or represents an overlap of code development. A new initiative has been taken at CERN 4 in the context of the W3C 5 collaboration with MIT 6 in order to converge the current versions of the Library so that existing and future World-Wide Web applications have a powerful and uniform interface to the Internet.

Object-stacking in the World-Wide Web

Abstract: Object-stacking is a model for structuring object based systems. The main feature of object-stacking is that layers of objects with a uniform interface are constructed, and the functions of these objects are integrated. The effectiveness of object-stacking has been shown for file systems of distributed operating systems. The paper presents the application of the object-stacking model to the World-Wide Web, an information exploring/providing system on the Internet. Object-stacking gives powerful tools to information providers who use the World-Wide Web. The paper describes the implementation method of object-stacking in the World-Wide Web. The paper proposes the new concepts of demand stacking, virtual stackable objects, and pointer swizzling in the World-Wide Web.

Signal processing and the World Wide Web

Abstract: The World Wide Web (WWW) offers much information useful to the signal processing community. Using the Web, information having a variety of different forms can be transferred in a cohesive fashion. The article describes the rudiments of accessing the Web and how to create your own information resources. The authors focus on signal processing resources and how the Web catalyzes signal processing research and development.

A Methodology for Structuring Web Documents

Abstract: We describe tools and a methodology for building a set of web pages into a single consistent web ``document'' by adding a toolbar and other information to each page. These simplify the authoring task and present the student with a clear and consistent set of navigation aids. The tools developed allow a number of operations which have general applicability to authoring Web texts; deducing document structure; tailoring document structure for a particular server installation; adding navigation aids; supporting hypertext author's own extensions to HTML. Keywords : Structuring, Automation, Navigation.

Web-based management

Abstract: With the introduction of WEB browser and java related technologies, network management platforms, applications and agent development are being re-engineered to fit this new framework. Network equipment and software vendors are rushing to adopt WEB related technologies for competitive advantage.