Ease of use is definitively one of the key aspects characterizing the quality of web applications and includes accessibility and usability. In this paper we describe how these fact...
Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Abstract. In this paper we present a method based on fuzzy computing with words to measure the informative quality of Web sites used to publish information stored in XML documents....
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...