Determining quality for web applications requires an orientation beyond traditional quality models. Researchers have pointed to usability as a key component of web application quality. Usability is not a new quality characteristic. What is new is that it is a key success factor for web applications. For conventional software applications, usability may be a ‘nice to have’, but for web applicati...

A novel clustering approach to select optimal usability principles for educational websites Prafulla Bharat Bafna Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR), Symbiosis International University (SIU), Atur Centre, Gokhale Cross Road, Model Colony, Pune –411 016, Maharashtra, INDIA. _________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Usabi...

The current paper explores designing a web information retrieval system regarding the searching behavior of users in real and everyday life. Designing an information system that is closely linked to human behavior is equally important for providers and the end users.  From an Information Science point of view, four approaches in designing information retrieval systems were identified as system-...

The Semantic Web has opened new horizons in exploring Web functionality. One of the many challenges is to proactively support the reuse of digital artifacts stored in repositories all over the world. Our goal is to contribute towards this issue, proposing a mechanism for describing and discovering artifacts called Digital Content Components (DCCs). DCCs are self-contained stored entities that m...

Web mining is used to automatically discover and extract information from Web-related data sources such as documents, log, services, and user profiles. Although standard data mining methods may be applied for mining on the Web, many specific algorithms need to be developed and applied for various purposes of Web based information processing in multiple Web resources, effectively and efficiently...

Very Large Web Sites are a particular category of web sites where the potential of traditional evaluation process for ensuring usability is significantly contracted by the size of the web site. Since this kind of web site is authored, designed, evaluated, and maintained by a wide variety of people who have specific information demands over a huge set of web pages, we believe that Universal Desi...

Finding information by successively following hyperlinks on web pages is a typical task performed on the web. A number of web users search for specific information and several studies have concluded that following the “information scent” is the fundamental process involved in the behavior. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the strength of the “information scent” ...

The syntax of both SROIQ and OWL 2 allow complex role inclusion axioms where the role composition occurs on the left of the subsumption relation, but not where the role composition occurs on the right. This paper proves that, despite the lack of syntax, SROIQ, and consequently OWL 2, can already express such complex role inclusions. This is shown by proving that complex role inclusion axioms wh...