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Tech Report kmi-99-02 Abstract

Constituencies for Users: How to Develop them by Interpreting Logs of Web Site Access
Techreport ID: kmi-99-02
Date: 1999
Author(s): Michael J. Wright

The number of electronic journals is growing as rapidly as the World Wide Web on which many are published. Readership of an electronic journal is important to quantify, just as it is for a printed journal. In maintaining the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME), a scholarly electronic journal open to all, we require readership statistics more meaningful than the variations on the theme of "number of hits" given by many log analysis packages. Important aspects of JIME's open access are the decisions to not require subscription, nor the use of hidden tracking aids such as cookies. Readership information is acquired from the server log of client requests. We are investigating the identification of user sessions from such logs, and the development of classification of sessions into constituencies of readership. In this paper, we present the result of manual analysis from which we are developing automatic analysis mechanisms.

Publication(s):

AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Agents in Cyberspace, March 22-24, 1999, Stanford University, California

Future Internet

Knowledge
Management Multimedia &
Information Systems Narrative
Hypermedia New Media Systems Semantic Web &
Knowledge Services

Future Internet is...

With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.

To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:

Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness

Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection