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In the recent years the Web has become an important medium for communication and information storage. As this trend is predicted to continue, it is necessary to provide efficient solutions for retrieving and processing information found in WWW. In this paper we present a new method for temporal web page summarization based on trend and variance analysis. In the temporal summarization web docume...

Some fundamental changes are happening, or will have to happen, to adapt our catalogues to cope with what I call the Digital Age an age in which we have to meet our users’ requirement to find the information they want irrespective of whether it is in print or digital form and whether it is held locally or on the Web. This is posing some huge challenges indeed it is forcing a radical rethink of ...

A web media agent is presented, which can make a user’s web surfing experience more productive. Once the user visits a web page, semantic descriptions of the media objects on the page are automatically collected and used as their semantic indexes, which can help the user quickly find relevant media objects later.

This paper investigates the relationship between online places and Web Services. While the metaphor of online places has been useful for many people in their effort to comprehend the World-Wide Web, it is not sufficient to define a Web Service for online Places. In an effort to define such a Web Service, we outline the requirements of a family of Web Services. We are striving towards the defini...

The aim of this paper is to examine the domain of World Wide Web site development and propose a methodology to assist with this process. Methodologies have both their proselytizers and those who decry the constraints and rigidity of prescriptive frameworks. The methodology presented here is not intended to be a universal panacea for the problems of web development; rather it is hoped it will pr...

Virtual courses often separate teacher and student physically from one another, resulting in less direct feedback. The evaluation of virtual courses and other computer-supported educational systems is therefore of major importance in order to monitor student progress, guarantee the quality of the course and enhance the learning experience for the student. We present a technique for the usage ev...

This paper describes an automatic monitoring system that constantly checks partial updates in Web pages and notifies them to a user. While one of the most important advantages of the WWW is frequent updates of Web pages, we need to constantly check them out and this task may take much cognitive load. Unfortunately applications to automatically check such updates can not deal with partial update...

Annotea is a framework that supports Semantic Web based collaboration and authoring via Annotea objects, such as social annotations, bookmarks, and topics. Social bookmarks and topics can be used for semantic authoring in many levels. They let ordinary users tag interesting Web documents with their own personal concepts (folksonomies). These concepts can be simple or form hierarchies, and they ...

In this paper, we look at Web data that comes from multiple sources, as in the Web 2.0. We argue that Web data is more than just its content. Rather, a piece of Web data carries along different facets, such the transformations that data underwent, the different perspectives that users have on the content, and the context in which a statement is made. We put forward the idea that provenance, i.e...