In this paper we are looking for a relationship between the intent of Web pages, their architecture and the communities who take part in their usage and creation. From our point of view, the Web page is entity carrying information about these communities and this paper describes techniques, which can be used to extract mentioned information as well as tools usable in analysis of these informati...

A large amount of the publicly available Web pages is generated dynamically upon request, and contain links to other dynamically generated pages. Many Web sites that are built with dynamic pages can create arbitrarily many pages. This poses a problem for the crawlers of Web search engines, as the network and storage resources required for indexing Web pages are neither infinite nor free. In thi...

Comparisons sort objects based on their superiority or inferiority and they may have major effects on a variety of evaluation processes. The Web facilitates qualitative and quantitative comparisons via online debates, discussion forums, product comparison sites, etc., and comparison analysis is becoming increasingly useful in many application areas. This study develops a method for classifying ...

Synchronous groupware applications support people collaborating in real time over a distance. The world wide web supports asynchronous collaboration by allowing people to share distributed information repositories. This paper presents a new technique for creating applications that tightly integrate synchronous groupware with the world wide web. The key points of the technique are: two new HTML ...

In order to communicate over networks we need standardized data formats and protocols. But how do we move forward toward this goal? One popular debate centers around the best way to define new data formats. XML dominates this area and so the primary question left is how and whether to use schemas and if so, what schema language to use. This paper will address a different question: How will we s...

Entities play a key role in knowledge bases in general and in the Web of Data in particular. Entities are generally described with a lot of properties, this is the case for DBpedia. It is, however, difficult to assess which ones are more “important” than others for particular tasks such as visualizing the key facts of an entity or filtering out the ones which will yield better instance matching...

User experience research aims to understand a user’s point of view. Because eye tracking allows us to literally see through a user’s eyes, it can serve as a valuable tool in web studies, particularly in web design and development. To understand how eye tracking can be pivotal in website studies, this paper scientifically explains how the human visual system works and how eye tracker technologie...

In this paper we present a novel approach to accessing the Web, that enables for automatically acquiring data from Web sites and making them accessible to the user through a database query paradigm. The basic idea is to build, once the user has specified a generic domain of interest, the domain conceptual representation, to instantiate it with data extracted from Web sites (so to build a materi...