Resumen—The e-commerce web sites receive a great and varied number of visitors every day. These visitors share the application server’s limited resources and when there are too many clients connecting to the web site, it is possible that they hinder between them, even to overload the application server. These visitors can be divided in different categories, depending on their importance from si...

Web personalization is the process of customizing a web site to the needs of each specific user or set of users. Personalization of a web site may be performed by the provision of recommendations to the users, highlighting/adding links, creation of index pages, etc. The web personalization systems are mainly based on the exploitation of the navigational patterns of the web site’s visitors. When...

Resumen—The e-commerce web sites receive a great and varied number of visitors every day. These visitors share the application server’s limited resources and when there are too many clients connecting to the web site, it is possible that they hinder between them, even to overload the application server. These visitors can be divided in different categories, depending on their importance from si...

This research examined the personality of owners of personal Web sites based on self-reports, visitors' ratings, and the content of the Web sites. The authors compared a large sample of Web site owners with population-wide samples on the Big Five dimensions of personality. Controlling for demographic differences, the average Web site owner reported being slightly less extraverted and more open ...

Sequential Pattern Mining involves applying data mining methods to large web data repositories to extract usage patterns. The growing popularity of the World Wide Web, many websites typically experience thousands of visitors every day. Analysis of who browsed what, can give important insight into the buying pattern of existing customers. Correct and timely decisions made based on this knowledge...

Visiting museums and exhibitions represented in multi-user 3D environments can be an efficient way of learning about the exhibits in an interactive manner and socialising with other visitors. The rich educational information presented in the virtual environment and the presence of remote users could also be beneficial for the visitors of the physical exhibition space. In this paper we present t...

The hypothesis that the evolutionary origin of novel behavior patterns may be imprecision in the execution of existing patterns is examined using data from spider web construction behavior. Several aspects of orb construction behavior are both extremely invariable intraspecifically, and highly conserved evolutionarily. The behavior of spiders in the genus Wendilgarda, which build highly modifie...