Web navigation

About: Web navigation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 14942 publications have been published within this topic receiving 389620 citations.

Hidden Web Data Extraction Using Dynamic Rule Generation

Abstract: World Wide Web is a global information medium of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via computers connected to the internet. Most of the users rely on traditional search engines to search the information on the web. These search engines deal with the Surface Web which is a set of Web pages directly accessible through hyperlinks and ignores a large part of the Web called Hidden Web which is hidden to present-day search engines. It lies behind search forms and this part of the web containing an almost endless amount of sources providing high quality information stored in specialized databases can be found in the depths of the WWW. A large amount of this Hidden web is structured i.e Hidden websites contain the information in the form of lists and tables. However visiting dozens of these sites and analyzing the results is very much time consuming task for user. Hence, it is desirable to build a prototype which will minimize user's effort and give him high quality information in integrated form. This paper proposes a novel method that extracts the data records from the lists and tables of various hidden web sites of same domain using dynamic rule generation and forms a repository which is used for later searching. By searching the data from this repository, user will find the desired data at one place. It reduces the user's effort to look at various result pages of different hidden websites. Keywords-Hidden Web, Crawler, DOM(Document Object Model), Search Engine.

z9: An Alternative Approach to Collaborative Navigation

Abstract: The search for relevant information on the Web is a personalized discovery process. In this process each person will aggregate new information to the border of what he or she already knows. Finding relevant information is also related to the user history, being driven by his or her intentional selection of documents to access. This paper presents a collaborative navigation tool, called z9, whose main purpose is to selectively transfer anonymous navigation information among a group of users, based on identified user similarities. These similarities are the starting point for the presentation of exploration paths that potentially lead to relevant information.

Method for using browser to configure software program

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for configuring a web site tracking program on a computer coupled over a network to a web server whereby the web page or object to be tracked is displayed on a display device within a browser window in synchronicity with the web site tracking criteria selected for that page or object. SOLUTION: The web browser is operated on the computer with a configuration program to retrieve a web page or object from the web site server and display it in a browser window and the tracking criteria within a configuration pane or subwindow. The operator selects within the configuration pane or subwindow the web tracking criterion to be configured. The proper URL, FTP or other identifying link to the criteria is automatically generated for and associated with the web page or object displayed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Web accessibility and section 508 compliance

Abstract: With the recent addition of Section 508 to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (enacted August 1998, implemented June 2001), the need for accessible and Section 508 compliant Web sites has become imperative Web Accessibility Evaluation and Repair Tools have been created to help Web developers make Web pages accessible, mitigating the enormity of this task The focus of the project was to compare and contrast a number of software tools available that test and/or fix Web sites and individual Web pages for Web Accessibility and compliance with Section 508

Automatic traceability acquisition framework

Abstract: In this paper we will describe an automatic traceability acquisition framework for existing web applications and how to take advantage of acquired provenance information about user actions on the Internet, namely resource uploading. We will show how traceability information provided by common websites can be stored in available Linked Open Data repositories, thus enhancing cross-domain trust upon resources published on the World Wide Web. A framework such as this is also submitted to evaluation on the popular Word-Press web application, demonstrating how easily it can be deployed to existing web applications.