Abstract
The world has witnessed the blossom of mobile commerce in the past few years. Traditional Web pages are mainly designed for desktop or notebook computers. They usually do not suit the devices well because the pages, especially the large files, can not be properly, speedily displayed on the microbrowsers due to the limitations of mobile handheld devices: (i) small screen size, (ii) narrow network bandwidth, (iii) low memory capacity, and (iv) limited computing power and resources. Therefore, loading and visualizing large documents on handheld devices become an arduous task. Various methods are created for browsing the mobile Web efficiently and effectively. This paper investigates some of the methods:
• Page segmentation, which is used to segment Web pages.
• Component ranking, which is used to rank page components after segmentation.
• Other ad hoc methods, such as text summarization, transcoding, and Web usage mining.
Though each method employs a different strategy, their goals are the same: conveying the meaning of Web pages by using minimum space. The major problem of the current methods is that it is not easy to find the clear-cut components in a Web page. Other related issues such as mobile handheld devices and microbrowsers will also be discussed in this paper.
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium |
| State | Published - Apr 17 2009 |
Keywords
- Internet-enabled
- Mobile handheld devices
- Web content
DC Disciplines
- Databases and Information Systems