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AUTHOR
Morten Goodwin Olsen
Incremental web crawling as a competitive game of learning automata
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2005 - Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad There is no doubt that the World Wide Web has lived up to it’s hype of being the world’s central information highway through the past years. An increasing amount of versatile services keeps finding their way onto the Web as information providers continue to embrace the possibilities that the Web can offer. Especially the possibility of producing dynamic content has been an accelerant factor and is the reason why we now conveniently can participate in online auctions or see the latest development of our favorite stocks in near real-time from our own living rooms. However, for automated data mining app…
Accessibility of eGovernment Web Sites: Towards a Collaborative Retrofitting Approach
Published version of a chapter from the book: Computers Helping People with Special Needs.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_75 Accessibility benchmarking is efficient to raise awareness and initiate competition. However, traditional benchmarking is of little avail when it comes to removing barriers from eGovernment web sites in practice. Regulations and legal enforcement may be helpful in a long-term perspective. For more rapid progress both vendors and web site maintainers are willing to take short-term action towards improvements, provided that clear advise is available. The approach of the eGovernment Monitoring pro…
Monitoring Accessibility of Governmental Web Sites in Europe
Web accessibility is an important goal of the European i2010 strategy. Several one-off surveys of eAccessibility have been conducted in the past few years. In this paper, we describe an approach to supplement the results of such surveys with automated assessments, that can easily be repeated at regular intervals. The software basis is provided by the European Internet Accessibility Observatory (EIAO). We analyse how the data collected by EIAO can be compared to other surveys.