Sciweavers

W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Web not for all: a large scale study of web accessibility
The Web accessibility discipline strives for the study and improvement of front-end Web design towards people with disabilities. Best practices such as WCAG dictate how Web pages ...
Rui Lopes, Daniel Gomes, Luís Carriç...
W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive SIGHT into information graphics
Information graphics (such as bar charts and line graphs) play a vital role in many multimodal documents. Unfortunately, visually impaired individuals who use screen reader progra...
Seniz Demir, David Oliver, Edward Schwartz, Stepha...
W4A
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The potential of adaptive interfaces as an accessibility aid for older web users
Supporting effective and enjoyable Web usage by people with sensory, motor and cognitive impairments requires more than just accessible Web content. There is an additional task of...
David Sloan, Matthew T. Atkinson, Colin H. C. Mach...
SWWS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving User Query Processing Based on User Profile and Task Context
- Today there is a real challenge in accessing relevant information according to the needs and the context of the user. Recent studies have dynamically enhanced the user query with...
Ounas Asfari, Bich-Liên Doan, Yolaine Bourda...
SERVICEWAVE
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Utility Driven Service Routing over Large Scale Infrastructures
Pablo Chacin, Leandro Navarro, Pedro García...
SERVICEWAVE
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Simulating Autonomic SLA Enactment in Clouds Using Case Based Reasoning
Abstract. With the emergence of Cloud Computing resources of physical machines have to be allocated to virtual machines (VMs) in an ondemand way. However, the efficient allocation ...
Michael Maurer, Ivona Brandic, Rizos Sakellariou
SERVICEWAVE
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Self-adapting Applications Based on QA Requirements in the Cloud Using Market-Based Heuristics
There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
Vivek Nallur, Rami Bahsoon
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Semantic Techniques for Enabling Knowledge Reuse in Conceptual Modelling
Abstract. Conceptual modelling tools allow users to construct formal representations of their conceptualisations. These models are typically developed in isolation, unrelated to ot...
Jorge Gracia del Río, Jochem Liem, Esther L...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mapping Master: A Flexible Approach for Mapping Spreadsheets to OWL
We describe a mapping language for converting data contained in spreadsheets into the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The developed language, called M2 , overcomes shortcomings with e...
Martin J. O'Connor, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Ma...