SNAP : the social network adaptive portal

Since the boom of social networking lead to people using multiple account on many platforms in order to keep in touch with hundreds of contacts, managing one's contacts risks becoming a burden for many users. Following and finding information about friends and family has become an issue too. Guided by these observations and by careful research of existing adaptive web technologies, our team worked on the development of SNAP - an adaptive social network integrator which aimed to amalgamate four social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Buzz) in one adaptive environment, which to unobtrusively sort the users' feed according to his/her preference. To achieve data transfer and authorisation, SNAP used APIs and the newest version of the OAuth protocol. Adaptivity was achieved through statistical filtering. Despite efforts, the initial field tests show that the system is not as yet ready to be launched for wider use. However, there is room for improvement in terms of Social Network Integration, and tester users expressed an interest in the idea of using an adaptive social integrator such as SNAP.peer-reviewe

Taking social networks to the next level

Since the boom of social networking lead to people using multiple account on many platforms in order to keep in touch with hundreds of contacts, managing one's contacts risks becoming a burden for many users. Following and finding information about friends and family has become an issue too. Guided by these observations and by careful research of existing adaptive web technologies, our team worked on the development of SNAP - an adaptive social network integrator which aimed to amalgamate various social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Flickr) in one adaptive environment, which unobtrusively sorts the users' feed according to his/her preference. To achieve data transfer and authorisation, SNAP uses the newest version of the OAuth protocol. Adaptivity was achieved through statistical filtering. The initial field tests show that the system works, however there is definitely room for improvement in terms of Social Network Integration, and testers generally expressed an interest in the idea of using an adaptive social integrator such as SNAP. On top of this, we will be suggesting a number of improvements which will change the way we use social networks forever.peer-reviewe

Document numérique dynamique : une étoile filante dans l\u27espace documentaire (Le)

Intervention au colloque "Le numérique : impact sur le cycle de vie du document", organisé à l\u27université de Montréal par l\u27EBSI et l\u27ENSSIB du 13 au 15 octobre 2004. La majorité de pages Web existantes actuellement sont des pages Web créées dynamiquement. Ces documents qui n\u27existent pas réellement, sont créés pour une demande individuelle (automatique ou manuelle) et ils disparaissent après leur consultation. Cet article s\u27intéresse aux problèmes de la durée d\u27existence, d\u27accessibilité et d\u27archivage de ces pages. Les différentes définitions, catégorisation des documents dynamiques et leur mise en oeuvre sont introduites dans un premier temps pour ensuite analyser les résultats de différents tests statistiques effectués dans l\u27objectif d\u27évaluation de durée de vie de documents numériques dynamiques

Hybrid approach for designing smart adaptive Web Sites

The very beginning of the research on Smart Adaptive Web Systems (SAWS). They are systems that adapt their response based on the context in which they are used. In AWS, three main sources of information have been identified are: user, environment, and technology. To design a site for adaptivity, the site s parts must be changeable according to users needs and interests. This paper represents a careful study of a large number of adaptive web systems which are used for adapting predesigned web pages and automatic synthesizing web pages. It suggests a new approach to extract the user s interest without the need of many visits to the web site or viewing the catalog in details. Different E-metrics are measured to evaluate the user s history, extract users interests, create adaptable interface, and synthesize a new page with special features referring to users needs and interests and also predict the next step the user may need.Facultad de Informátic

Research interests: their dynamics, structures and applications in unifying search and reasoning

Most scientific publication information, which may reflects scientists' research interests, is publicly available on the Web. Understanding the characteristics of research interests from previous publications may help to provide better services for scientists in the Web age. In this paper, we introduce some parameters to track the evolution process of research interests, we analyze their structural and dynamic characteristics. According to the observed characteristics of research interests, under the framework of unifying search and reasoning (ReaSearch), we propose interests-based unification of search and reasoning (I-ReaSearch). Under the proposed I-ReaSearch method, we illustrate how research interests can be used to improve literature search on the Web. According to the relationship between an author's own interests and his/her co-authors interests, social group interests are also used to refine the literature search process. Evaluation from both the user satisfaction and the scalability point of view show that the proposed I-ReaSearch method provides a user centered and practical way to problem solving on the Web. The efforts provide some hints and various methods to support personalized search, and can be considered as a step forward user centric knowledge retrieval on the Web. From the standpoint of the Active Media Technology (AMT) on the Wisdom Web, in this paper, the study on the characteristics of research interests is based on complex networks and human dynamics, which can be considered as an effort towards utilizing information physics to discover and explain the phenomena related to research interests of scientists. The application of research interests aims at providing scientific researchers best means and best ends in an active way for literature search on the Web. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC