MODELING BROWSING BEHAVIOR AND SAMPLING WEB EVOLUTION FEATURES THROUGH XML INSTANCES

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Dimitrios D. Vergados

2007

Abstract

Nowadays, many web services have the essential role of accessing and processing the disseminated information on the web, while in parallel, distribute and exchange metadata among them in order to deliver relevant information to the end user. However, their competence is hindered, due to the vast amount of information added, the poor organization, as well as the lack of effective crawling techniques that fail to follow the exponential growth of the web. In this paper we propose an algorithm, which uses five third party web search services and it is capable of self-adapting over the incessant changes that occur on the indexed web. The algorithm works in conjunction with a user browsing behavior model that monitors and records the users’ interactions with the third-party services, using XML search session instances. From the assessment made, it was concluded that the proposed algorithm not only adapts to the users’ web search profiles but also adapts to the evolutionary nature of the web.

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Anagnostopoulos I., Anagnostopoulos C. and D. Vergados D. (2007). MODELING BROWSING BEHAVIOR AND SAMPLING WEB EVOLUTION FEATURES THROUGH XML INSTANCES . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-972-8865-78-8, pages 67-74. DOI: 10.5220/0001279500670074


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@conference{webist07,
author={Ioannis Anagnostopoulos and Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos and Dimitrios D. Vergados},
title={MODELING BROWSING BEHAVIOR AND SAMPLING WEB EVOLUTION FEATURES THROUGH XML INSTANCES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2007},
pages={67-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001279500670074},
isbn={978-972-8865-78-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - MODELING BROWSING BEHAVIOR AND SAMPLING WEB EVOLUTION FEATURES THROUGH XML INSTANCES
SN - 978-972-8865-78-8
AU - Anagnostopoulos I.
AU - Anagnostopoulos C.
AU - D. Vergados D.
PY - 2007
SP - 67
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0001279500670074