The development of the Internet generated the increase in the volume of information available on this network. Nowadays, this information is more and more used by the companies for economic, strategic, scientific or technical development. This cannot be done without using database techniques. This is the reason why the web warehouse or dataweb constitutes today a real need for the companies in ...

This paper examines the extent to which companies in various industries are using the World Wide Web and its associated technologies to conduct retail business. Using the framework of an Electronic Commerce Architecture (ECA), a variety of commercial Web sites are analyzed to determine which commerce processes are being supported online in each industry and each type of industry. The results of...

With XML becoming a standard for semi-structured documents on the web and a standard for data exchange between different systems in e-commerce and e-business, some database companies are adding XML support to their existing database systems, while on the other hand some other companies coming out with pure or native database systems for XML. In this paper, the present an experimental study on t...

web usage mining (wum) is the automatic discovering of hidden informationof user access pattern from the web log data. frequent pattern discovery is one ofthe main techniques in wum that can be used to implement recommender systems,forecast user`s navigational behaviour, and personalize web sites. many algorithmshave been suggested on obtaining frequent user navigation patterns. this paperprese...

In a fast changing business environment, companies that can innovate better and faster, and respond quickly to customer’s requirements, will win. One of the most important industries of knowledge-based economy, by all means, is the software industry. In order to achieve business success and to innovate in the market, almost every large organization relies on software. The emergence of Web 2.0 a...

Third-party networks collect vast amounts of data about users via web sites and mobile applications. Consolidations among tracker companies can significantly increase their individual tracking capabilities, prompting scrutiny by competition regulators. Traditional measures of market share, based on revenue or sales, fail to represent the tracking capability of a tracker, especially if it spans ...

To support the emergence of a solid knowledge base for analyzing Web activity, we have developed a framework to analyze and categorize the capabilities of Web sites. This distinguishes content from design. Content refers to the information, features, or services that are offered in the Web site, design to the way the content is made available for Web visitors. Both concepts have been operationa...

Solving problems in dynamic and heterogeneous environments where information sources change its format representation and the data stored along the time is a very complex problem. In previous work we have presented a system called MAPWeb (MultiAgent Planning in the Web) that tries to solve those problems by integrating artificial intelligence planning techniques within the MultiAgent framework....

In this paper, some natural links between virtual reality and interactive 3D computer graphics are specified and Web3D technologies especially VRML and X3D are briefly introduced. Web-based tool which is called EasyLab3D was designed and implemented using X3D. This web-based tool is used to generate automatically 3D virtual computer rooms that can be navigated in. It is important for introducti...

filtering of web pages with inappropriate contents is one of the major issues in the field of intelligent network's security. having a good intelligent filtering method with high accuracy and speed is needed for any country in order to control users' access to the web. so, it has been considered by many researchers. presenting web pages in an understandable way by machines is one of the most im...