construction industry consists of several phases in which a variety of stakeholders are involved. as construction projects are becoming larger, more complex and more diverse, the design phase has been more important factor for the success of projects than ever before. however, it is considered that most of design work occurred in actual design process is intangible. such recognition makes the d...

BACKGROUND Food marketing contributes to childhood obesity. Food companies commonly place display advertising on children's web sites, but few studies have investigated this form of advertising. OBJECTIVES Document the number of food and beverage display advertisements viewed on popular children's web sites, nutritional quality of advertised brands and proportion of advertising approved by fo...

In the academic literature and the business press, there seems to be a lack of guidance and lack of cross-cultural models to support companies localization strategies on the Web. To address this deficit in literature and to provide marketers and Web designers with insights into website localization, this paper conducted a comparative analysis of the U.S. based international companies’ domestic ...

Basic facts URL of the live web application: http://tree.datafabric.cc (launched on 17.07.2017). Product type: subscription-based commercial web application. Application domains: business intelligence, data analytics. Semantic technologies (ST) employed: RDF, OWL, knowledge graphs, SPARQL. Volume: 2.8 bil. triples, 10 mil. companies, 12 mil. individual entrepreneurs, 27 mil. persons, 333 Gb of ...

With the explosive growth of information available on the World Wide Web, users must increasingly use automated tools to find, extract, filter, and evaluate desired information and resources. Companies are investing significant amounts of time and money on creating, developing, and enhancing individualized customer relationships, a process called customer relationship management, or CRM (Berry ...

On the Internet, web servers are often the main interface between companies or individuals and the rest of the world. As a result they represent valuable targets for attackers. Although several types of attacks are possible against web server we focus in this paper on flooding based denial of service attacks. We explore the detection of saturation attacks against web servers as well as the prec...

Latency and costs of Internet-based services are driving the proliferation of web-object caching. Memcached, the most broadly deployed web-object caching solution, is a key infrastructure component for many companies that offer services via the Web, such as Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Wikipedia, and YouTube. Its aim is to reduce service latency and improve processing capability on back...

In this paper we present our findings from a series of interviews with companies developing web applications, investigating how quality issues are managed when developing web applications in a rush-to-market and competitive environment. Our findings suggest that requirement practises are communication intensive, that companies perceive quality attributes related to a good user experience import...