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Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Juan Carlos Farah

As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even ...

Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València2022

A large scale study of reader interactions with images on Wikipedia

Tiziano Piccardi, Daniele Rama

Wikipedia is the largest source of free encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images within the text of the article's body. However, despite their widespr ...

SPRINGER2022

Dynamic pattern recognition in large-scale graphs with applications to social networks

Volodymyr Miz

A graph is a versatile data structure facilitating representation of interactions among objects in various complex systems. Very often these objects have attributes whose measurements change over time, reflecting the dynamics of the system. This general da ...

EPFL2020

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia

Luc Patiny, Michaël Giuseppe Zasso

Background: Wikipedia, the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia is an indispensable source of chemistry information. It contains among others also entries for over 15,000 chemicals including metabolites, drugs, agrochemicals and industrial chemica ...

Biomed Central Ltd2015

Result Selection and Summarization for Web Table Search

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên

The amount of information available on the Web has been growing dramatically, raising the importance of techniques for searching the Web. Recently, Web Tables emerged as a model, which enables users to search for information in a structured way. However, e ...

2015

Scalable and Reactive Programming for Semantic Web Developers

Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

The Semantic Web brings a powerful set of concepts, standards and ideas that are already changing the shape of the Web. However, in order to put these notions into practice we need to translate them into code. That is why the broad notion of programming th ...

CEUR-WS2015

Reactive Processing of RDF Streams of Events

Karl Aberer, Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez

Events on the Web are increasingly being produced in the form of data streams, and are present in many different scenarios and applications such as health monitoring, environmental sensing or social networks. The heterogeneity of event streams has raised t ...

2015

Studying Web Content Credibility by Social Simulation

Karl Aberer

The Internet has become an important source of information that significantly affects social, economical and political life. The content available in the Web is the basis for the operation of the digital economy. Moreover, Web content has become essential ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014

B-hist: Entity-centric search over personal web browsing history

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Karl Aberer, Michele Catasta, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

Web Search is increasingly entity centric; as a large fraction of common queries target specific entities, search results get progressively augmented with semi-structured and multimedia information about those entities. However, search over personal web br ...

Elsevier2014

ChemCalc: a building block for tomorrow’s chemical infrastructure

Alain Borel, Luc Patiny

Web services, as an aspect of cloud computing, are becoming an important part of the general IT infrastructure, and scientific computing is no exception to this trend. We propose a simple approach to develop chemical web services, through which servers cou ...

2013

WaRR: A Tool for High-Fidelity Web Application Record and Replay

George Candea, Silviu Andrica

We introduce WaRR, a tool that records and replays with high ﬁdelity the interaction between users and modern web applications. WaRR consists of two independent components: the WaRR Recorder and the WaRR Replayer. The WaRR Recorder is embedded in a web bro ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM): web platform for data storage, model development and publishing of chemical information

Luc Patiny

The Online Chemical Modeling Environment is a web-based platform that aims to automate and simplify the typical steps required for QSAR modeling. The platform consists of two major subsystems: the database of experimental measurements and the modeling fram ...

2011

Introducing qualitative dimensions to analyze the usefulness of Web 2.0 platforms as PLEs

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

The trends in web development of educational applications and of Web 2.0 or social applications are converging. Platforms are designed to host a variety of software components (called widgets or plugins), which can be organised or combined (mashed-up) at u ...

2011

What have fruits to do with technology? The case of Orange, Blackberry and Apple

Karl Aberer, Surender Reddy Yerva, Zoltán Miklós

Twitter is a micro-blogging service on the Web, where people can enter short messages, which then become visible to other users of the service. While the topics of these messages varies, there are a lot of messages where the users express their opinions ab ...

ACM2011

Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web

Adriana Budura

The large-scale adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm has revolutionized the way we interact with the Web today. End-users, so far mainly passive consumers of information are now becoming active information producers, creating, uploading, and commenting on all ...

EPFL2010

Outtweeting the Twitterers - Predicting Information Cascades in Microblogs

Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba, Dipanjan Chakraborty

Microblogging sites are a unique and dynamic Web 2.0 communication medium. Understanding the information flow in these systems can not only provide better insights into the underlying sociology, but is also crucial for applications such as content ranking, ...

2010

From Web Data to Entities and Back

Nicolas Bonvin, Julien Gaugaz, Zoltán Miklós, Michele Catasta, Ekaterini Ioannou

We present the Entity Name System (ENS), an enabling infrastructure, which can host descriptions of named entities and provide unique identifiers, on large-scale. In this way, it opens new perspectives to realize entity-oriented, rather than keyword-orient ...

2010

Understanding the Web

Eda Baykan

The World Wide Web is one of the most widely used information resources. Understanding the web better will enable us to benefit more of it. In this thesis we develop techniques to learn the properties of the web pages like language and topic using only the ...

EPFL2009

Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes called widgets or plugins) which can be organized or combined (ma ...

2009

Remote Experimentation Mashup

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

eLogbook is a new Web 2.0 social software framework developed in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) to provide collaborative Web services in an open academic environment for higher education. Several cross platform We ...

2009