International Journal of Web Information Systems: Volume 12 Issue 2

Improving recommender systems’ performance on cold-start users and controversial items by a new similarity model

Masoud Mansoury, Mehdi Shajari

This paper aims to improve the recommendations performance for cold-start users and controversial items. Collaborative filtering (CF) generates recommendations on the basis of…

Tukuchiy: a dynamic user interface generator to improve usability

Luisa Barrera-León, Nadia Mejia-Molina, Angela Carrillo-Ramos, Leonardo Flórez-Valencia, Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal

This paper aims to present a detailed description of Tukuchiy, a framework to dynamically generate adapted user interfaces. Tukuchiy is based on Runa-Kamachiy, a conceptual…

A QoS-aware approach for runtime discovery, selection and composition of semantic web services

Sanjay Garg, Kirit Modi, Sanjay Chaudhary

Web services play vital role in the development of emerging technologies such as Cloud computing and Internet of Things. Although, there is a close relationship among the…

Enhancing web accessibility by implementing context aware proxy

Najd Al-Mouh, Hend S. Al-Khalifa

Millions of visually impaired people (VIP) in the world still face difficulties browsing the Web and accessing information. This paper aims to present a proxy service that takes…

Controlling privacy disclosure of third party applications in online social networks

Sarath Tomy, Eric Pardede

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the problem of privacy disclosure of third party applications in online social networks (OSNs) through Facebook, investigate the…

CASONTO: An efficient and scalable Arabic semantic search engine based on a domain specific ontology and question answering

Awny Sayed, Amal Al Muqrishi

The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient and scalable Arabic semantic search engine based on a domain-specific ontological graph for Colleges of Applied Science…