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Data Mining: Web Data Mining Techniques, Tools and Algorithms: An Overview Open
Web data mining became an easy and important platform for retrieval of useful information. Users prefer World Wide Web more to upload and download data. As increasing growth of data over the internet, it is getting difficult and time consu…
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De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks Open
Can online trackers and network adversaries de-anonymize web browsing data readily available to them? We show---theoretically, via simulation, and through experiments on real user data---that de-identified web browsing histories can be lin…
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Why We Read Wikipedia Open
Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users\nrelying on it to satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although\nit is crucial to understand what exactly these needs are in order to be able to…
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An Asynchronous P300-Based Brain-Computer Interface Web Browser for Severely Disabled People Open
This paper presents an electroencephalographic (EEG) P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI) Internet browser. The system uses the "odd-ball" row-col paradigm for generating the P300 evoked potentials on the scalp of the user, which are …
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Are these Ads Safe: Detecting Hidden Attacks through the Mobile App-Web Interfaces Open
Mobile users are increasingly becoming targets of malware infections and scams.Some platforms, such as Android, are more open than others and are therefore easier to exploit than other platforms.In order to curb such attacks it is importan…
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Directing user attention via visual flow on web designs Open
We present a novel approach that allows web designers to easily direct user attention via visual flow on web designs. By collecting and analyzing users' eye gaze data on real-world webpages under the task-driven condition, we build two use…
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Extended Tracking Powers Open
Users have come to rely on browser extensions to realize features that are not implemented by browser vendors. Extensions offer users the ability to, among others, block ads, de-clutter websites, enrich pages with third-party content, and …
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Keyword query based focused Web crawler Open
Finding information on Web is a difficult and challenging task because of the extremely large volume of data. Search engine can be used to facilitate this task, but it is still difficult to cover all the webpages present on Web. This paper…
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Analysis of Users’ Behavior in Structured e-Commerce Websites Open
Online shopping is becoming more and more common in our daily lives. Understanding users'' interests and behavior is essential to adapt e-commerce websites to customers'' requirements. The information about users'' behavior is stored in th…
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Web Experience in Mobile Networks: Lessons from Two Million Page Visits Open
Measuring and characterizing web page performance is a challenging task. When it comes to the mobile world, the highly varying technology characteristics coupled with the opaque network configuration make it even more difficult. Aiming at …
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Dark Web and Its Impact in Online Anonymity and Privacy: A Critical Analysis and Review Open
The Internet as the whole is a network of multiple computer networks and their massive infrastructure. The web is made up of accessible websites through search engines such as Google, Firefox, etc. and it is known as the Surface Web. The I…
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The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web Open
Web users are increasingly turning to ad blockers to avoid ads, which are often perceived as annoying or an invasion of privacy. While there has been significant research into the factors driving ad blocker adoption and the detrimental eff…
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Collaborative Web Browsing Based on Semantic Extraction of User Interests with Bookmarks Open
With the exponentially increasing amount of information available on the World Wide Web, users have been getting more difficult to seek relevant information. Several studies have been conducted on the concept of adaptive approaches, in whi…
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The Things We Talk About When We Talk About Browsing: An Empirical Typology of Library Browsing Behavior Open
Libraries increasingly offer much of their collection online, rendering it invisible or unavailable to readers who, for reasons of information experience, prefer to browse the shelves. Although the evidence that shelf browsing is an import…
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Neural Networks in Big Data and Web Search Open
As digitalization is gradually transforming reality into Big Data, Web search engines and recommender systems are fundamental user experience interfaces to make the generated Big Data within the Web as visible or invisible information to W…
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Firefox Voice: An Open and Extensible Voice Assistant Built Upon the Web Open
Voice assistants are fundamentally changing the way we access information. However, voice assistants still leverage little about the web beyond simple search results. We introduce Firefox Voice, a novel voice assistant built on the open we…
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Verifying that web pages have accessible layout Open
Usability and accessibility guidelines aim to make graphical user interfaces accessible to all users, by, say, requiring that text is sufficiently large, interactive controls are visible, and heading size corresponds to importance. These g…
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Creating Dynamic World Wide Web Pages by Demonstration Open
Turquoise is an intelligent browser and editor for the World Wide Web (WWW) that allows users to create dynamic pages by demonstration rather than by writing program code. With Turquoise, users without programming experience can create scr…
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A Comparative Measurement Study of Web Tracking on Mobile and Desktop Environments Open
Web measurement is a powerful approach to studying various tracking practices that may compromise the privacy of millions of users. Researchers have built several measurement frameworks and performed a few studies to measure web tracking o…
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Investigating the Correlation between Performance Scores and Energy Consumption of Mobile Web Apps Open
Context. Developers have access to tools like Google Lighthouse to assess the performance of web apps and to guide the adoption of development best practices. However, when it comes to energy consumption of mobile web apps, these tools see…
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Do Web Users with Autism Experience Barriers When Searching for Information Within Web Pages? Open
Elements related to cognitive disability are given lower priority in web accessibility guidelines due to limited understanding of the requirements of neurodiverse web users. Meanwhile, eye tracking has received a lot of interest in the acc…
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Summary of web crawler technology research Open
With the continuous development of network information technology, there is a large amount of unstructured data called big data on the network. Human resources to collect information laborious, so web crawler technology came into being. Th…
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Exploring Dark Web Crawlers: A Systematic Literature Review of Dark Web Crawlers and Their Implementation Open
Strong encryption algorithms and reliable anonymity routing have made cybercrime investigation more challenging. Hence, one option for law enforcement agencies (LEAs) is to search through unencrypted content on the Internet or anonymous co…
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Eye-tracking Evaluation of Weather Web Maps Open
Weather is one of the things that interest almost everyone. Weather maps are therefore widely used and many users use them in everyday life. To identify the potential usability problems of weather web maps, the presented research was condu…
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Chromium based Framework to Include Gaze Interaction in Web Browser Open
EnablingWeb interaction by non-conventional input sources like eyes has great potential to enhance Web accessibility. In this paper, we present a Chromium based inclusive framework to adapt eye gaze events in Web interfaces. The frameworkp…
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WebRanz: web page randomization for better advertisement delivery and web-bot prevention Open
Nowadays, a rapidly increasing number of web users are using Ad-blockers to block online advertisements. Ad-blockers are browser-based software that can block most Ads on the websites, speeding up web browsers and saving bandwidth. Despite…
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Evaluating on User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI) of EnerTrApp a Mobile Web Energy Monitoring System Open
The EnerTrApp mobile web application prototype was designed and developed where consumers can monitor the energy consumption of the home appliance using their smartphones through the mobile website of the system. The prototype was implemen…
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Web Data Extraction from Scientific Publishers’ Website Using Heuristic Algorithm Open
WWW is a huge repository of information and the amount of information available on the web is growing day by day in an exponential manner.End users make use of search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bingo etc. for retrieving information.Se…
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OmniCrawl: Comprehensive Measurement of Web Tracking With Real Desktop and Mobile Browsers Open
Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers, or focus on just a single mobile browser instead. In …
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Deconstructing the Energy Consumption of the Mobile Page Load Open
Mobile Web page performance is critical to content providers, service providers, and users, as Web browsers are one of the most popular apps on phones. Slow Web pages are known to adversely affect profits and lead to user abandonment. Whil…