Navigation (colloquially known as “surfing”) is the activity of following links and browsing web pages. This is a time intensive activity engaging all web users seeking information. We often get “lost in hyperspace” when we lose the context in which we are browsing, giving rise to the infamous navigation problem. So, in this age of information overload we need navigational assistance to help us...

Copyright © 2003, Idea Group Publishing. ABSTRACT The World Wide Web now holds more than 800 million pages covering almost all daily issues. The Web’s fast growing size and lack of structural style present a new challenge for information retrieval. Numerous search technologies have been applied to Web search engines; however, the dominant search method has yet to be identified. This chapter pro...

Internet and World Wide Web were developed in evolutionary fashion following changing requirements of the users and usage patterns. The recent requirements on the dynamics of World Wide Web, increased interactivity and effectiveness of cooperation introduce yet another paradigm shift that goes deep into the architecture of World Wide Web. A model that can be used to describe the interactions of...

The World Wide Web is the largest and most successful hypermedia system developed. The popularity and scalability of the Web is due to its simplicity and its expandable architecture, enabling developers to incorporate new emerging technologies. However the simplicity renders it impossible to build collaborative applications and sophisticated structures in a pure Web environment. This has motiva...

Some characteristics of the World Wide Web (WWW) and its Virtual Library (W3VL) are described. Aspects of the setting up, maintenance, future development and objectives of the World Wide Web Virtual Library: Crystallography are detailed. An overview of the successful use of WWW in the organisation of two crystallographic conferences and one entirely electronic conference is given. A revolution ...

World Wide Web (WWW) simulation is a new engineering tool with enormous potential to impact engineering education. By combining the modeling capability of traditional simulation tools with the communication capability of the Internet, WWW-based simulation provides wide accessibility, controlled access, efficient maintenance and increased integration. This paper describes WWWbased simulation, re...

We describe our InfoMall technology transfer program | a partnership of over sixty commercial, academic and federal organisations working together on HPCN technology development as well as HPCN-enabled business activities. We discuss a selection of some of the project activities being undertaken by InfoMall members and focus on an \Electronic InfoMall" activity in collaboration with the US Air ...

As all the recent market surveys witness, the World Wide Web (WWW) is expanding at a phenomenal rate, both in the number of users and in the amount of available information. This has made the World Wide Web one of the key elds for companies advertisement. On the other hand, advertisement on the web depends crucially on its visibility, i.e. on the possibility to be noticed by as many users as po...

As the size and diversity of the World Wide Web grows rapidly, it is becoming more and more difficult for a user to skim over a Web site and get an idea of its contents. Currently, manually constructed summaries by volunteer experts are available, such as the DMOZ Open Directory Project. This research is directed towards automating the Web site summarization task. To achieve this objective, an ...

The challenge for the World Wide Web user is to discover and rediscover useful information from very rich but also very diversified sources in the Web environment. The Web browser is a key interface to facilitate Web information access. In this paper, a framework is proposed to identify and investigate key factors that determine the Web browser's ability to assist users in performing various in...