There are many researches that introduce various techniques of browsing and discovering music using “visual forms” to the listeners. “Visual forms” include album cover, colour and mood picture are used to represent music mood in a way that can be easily understood by listeners. It has been proven that visual texture can represent mood too. However there is no research that uses visual texture t...

The most current news recommendations are suitable for news which comes from a single news website, not for news from different heterogeneous news websites. Previous researches about news recommender systems based on different strategies have been proposed to provide news personalization services for online news readers. However, little research work has been reported on utilizing hundreds of h...

The Earl system works in the domain of sandwich recipes. We show how Earl uses two sources of knowledge —ingredients knowledge that is extracted from a gastronomy web site, and a case base of sandwich recipes— to propose substitutes for ingredients in sandwich recipes. In particular, we describe four substitution methods: humanauthored substitutions, taxonomically-driven substitutions, lexicall...

Defining the boundaries of a web-site, for (say) archiving or information retrieval purposes, is an important but complicated task. In this paper a web-page clustering approach to boundary detection is suggested. The principal issue is feature selection, hampered by the observation that there is no clear understanding of what a web-site is. This paper proposes a definition of a web-site, founde...

Every hyperlink pointing at a web site is a potential source of new visitors, especially one near the top of a results page from a popular search engine. The order of the links in a search results page is often decided upon by an algorithm that takes into account the number and quality of links to all matching pages. The number of standard links targeted at a site is therefore doubly important,...

In recent years, the Internet has experienced a boom as an information source. The use of search engines is the most common way of finding this information. This means that less visible contents (for search engines) are increasingly difficult or even almost impossible to find. Thus,Web users are forced to accept alternative services or contents only because they are visible and offered to users...

The currently established formats for how a Web site can publish metadata about a site’s pages, the robots.txt file and sitemaps, focus on how to provide information to crawlers about where to not go and where to go on a site. This is sufficient as input for crawlers, but does not allow Web sites to publish richer metadata about their site’s structure, such as the navigational structure. This p...