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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"web page"”.
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Web page performance analysis
… As one of the most popular computer systems, the Web is inevitably scrutinised in terms of performance analysis that deals with its speed, capacity, resource utilisation, and availability. Performance analyses for the Web are normally done from the perspective of the Web servers and the underlying …
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Evaluation of QUIC on web page performance
… the first study of a new protocol, QUIC, on Web page performance. Our experiments test the HTTP/1.1, SPDY, and QUIC multiplexing protocols on the Alexa U.S. Top 500 websites, across 100+ network configurations of bandwidth and round-trip time (both static links and cellular networks). To do …
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Web page enhancement on desktop and mobile browsers
The Web is a convenient platform to deliver information, but reading web pages is not as easy as it was in 1990s. This thesis focuses on investigating techniques to enhance web pages on desktop and mobile browsers for two specific populations: non-native English readers and mobile users. There are …
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Creating a web page recommendation system for Haystack
The driving goal of this thesis was to create a web page recommendation system for Haystack, capable of tracking a user's browsing behavior and suggesting new, interesting web pages to read based on the past behavior. However, during the course of this thesis, 3 salient subgoals were met. First, …
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Exploring the trade-offs in web page behavioral abstractions
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Enterprise information integration. An unsupervised proposal for web page classification
La integración de aplicaciones web dentro de procesos automatizados de negocio requiere el diseño de wrappers que permitan ejecutar las consultas de un usuario usando los formularios de búsqueda que ofrece cada aplicación. Dichos wrappers se basan, entre otros componentes, en navegadores …
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Understanding and improving Web page load times on modern networks
… a measurement toolkit, Mahimahi, that records websites and replays them under emulated network conditions. Mahimahi improves on prior record-and-replay frameworks by emulating the multi-origin nature of Web pages, isolating its network traffic, and enabling evaluations of a larger set of target …
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An affordance-inspired tool for automated web page labeling and classification
… that are capable of completing complex tasks on web pages is difficult due to the inconsistent nature of the pages themselves. While there exist best practices for developing naming schemes for page elements, these schemes are not strictly enforced, making it difficult to develop a general-use …
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Development of genre and function types for web page classification and rating
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Entity finder: A system for entity web page retrieval using pseudo-relevance feedback
… of information available on the World Wide Web, crawling and searching the web may be an attractive technological approach that can help update a database to make it more complete and up to date. In this thesis, we propose a retrieval system that crawls and searches the web in order to …
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ClickTrails: Enhancing Web Navigation with Usage-Based Stylization of Clicked Web Page Elements
A modern web user might visit dozens of websites in a day and return to the same website countless times over a lifetime. However, unlike physical travels that leave behind tangible traces on the path, navigating through the web doesn’t usually leave visible traces on web pages. Drawing inspiration …
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Mobi : automatic customization of the mobile Web
Mobi is a system that automatically rewrites web pages into formats optimized for web browsing on mobile devices. The system estimates heuristically which parts of a web page's content users are most likely interested in, using previously recorded history of user actions on the Web. By doing so, …
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Girls' Engagement with Computers While Creating Web Pages During Middle Childhood
… 1) What patterns distinguish how girls engage in web page development during middle childhood? 2) What roles do environmental and personal factors play in the girls' engagement in the activity of web page development? 3) What are the perceived reasons for the girls' achievement in creating web …
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Semantic Snippets via Query-Biased Ranking of Linked Data Entities
… the transfer of knowledge play a principal role. Web search engines are somehow tools for knowledge acquisition and transfer from the web to the user. The search engine results page (SERP) consists mainly of a list of links and snippets (excerpts from the results). The snippets are used to …
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Evaluating the effectiveness of school library web sites
… about the school library on the Internet. These Web sites must be well maintained and up to date. The purpose of this study was to evaluate elementary and middle school library Web sites to find if they were meeting the standard of a Web page.</p> <p>With the use of a checklist, the researcher …
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Performance and security tradeoffs of provable website traffic fingerprinting defenses over Tor
… digital trails, including the identities of the websites we visit, can reveal sensitive personal information. As a result, researchers have devised schemes that seek to enable users to obfuscate the network traffic fingerprints of the websites they visit; however, being ad hoc attempts, these …
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Student preferences in screen design factors for Internet delivered college courses.
… rich multimedia capabilities of the World Wide Web give educators a wide variety of delivery media. However, with the exception of advice from artisans on design factors of the media, little research has been conducted with regard to the aesthetics of Web page design as viewed by the student. …
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Helping Those Who Help Themselves: a Critical Discourse Analysis Of CNN's 'Indepth: Empowered Patient'
<p>Internet Web sites are overwhelming health consumers with an abundance of health related advice, tips and education. In order for a patient to gain more autonomy in the patient – physician relationship, we assume they need more knowledge because they have traditionally relied on the physician …
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Sinch : searching intelligently on a mobile device
… to their questions without having to perform a web search in their mobile browser. Questions are answered by human beings using Mechanical Turk, an online labor market for simple human computation tasks. Workers on Mechanical Turk can search for answers using their desktop browsers, free from …
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Transforming user data into user value by novel mining techniques for extraction of web content, structure and usage patterns. The Development and Evaluation of New Web Mining Methods that enhance Information Retrieval and improve the Understanding of User¿s Web Behavior in Websites and Social Blogs.
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web in the last decade makes it the largest publicly accessible data source in the world, which has become one of the most significant and influential information revolution of modern times. The influence of the Web has impacted almost every aspect of humans' …
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