A study of Efficient Access to homepage

  • Yamagata, Osamu. (Faculty of Information Sciences, hiroshima City University) ;
  • Sakamoto, Masahiro. (Faculty of Information Sciences, hiroshima City University) ;
  • Tsuda, Kazuo. (Graduate School of Systems Management, The University)
  • Published : 2000.07.01

Abstract

WWW(World wide Web) is a place where many laymen receive and send the information at the worldwide. A visualization of WWW is very important as one of functions helping to retrieve and browse the information. However, as the information volume displayed at one time is limited by a screen size, it is useful to limit the volume of information capable for users to browse. In this report, we propose the page-index, which extract its information according to degree of user’s interest. This index is a numbers, which relate the user’s interest with verbal and structural characteristics of homepages. The homage-index constructed with sequence of this index are useful to help a user’s browsing. We constructed the estimating system about an article of commerce and really tried to estimate. From this trial, we verified the usefulness of the page-index, homepage-index.

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