Reconstruction Of Existing Site

 

This is to focus on the reuse of information that is currently delivered over the Web. By reuse, we mean the assembling of information from Web-based sources, and the restructuring of that information to either build a new Web application or to import it into a non-Web-based application, such as a database. The target research areas include (but are not limited to)

• mining, exploring and visualizing the Web,

• the structural extraction of relevant information, e.g., the Web as a large database,

• the semantic extraction of relevant information, e.g., the role of natural language processing and intelligent agents,

• the a posteriori restructuring or remodeling of Web pages and sites,

• the extraction of objects from the Web and their integration with legacy applications, or with other sources of information.

• the seamless integration of Web-based information, e.g., the design of information `brokers'

• the development of descriptive models for Web information, and

• the role of XML in Web information reuse applications.

Advances in these areas have enabled a massive amount of information to be made available on the Web. The real challenge is to make the best use of that information since desired information is often distributed piecemeal among a number of sites, servers, and pages, each with its own disparate structure. The goal of reusing Web-based information is to extract and assemble existing information that a user is interested in and to deliver that information in a form that is directly usable by users or applications.