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Open AccessEngaging end-user driven recommender systems: personalization through web augmentation
In the past decades recommender systems have become a powerful tool to improve personalization on the Web. Yet, many popular websites lack such functionality, its implementation usually requires certain technical...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An End-User Pipeline for Scra** and Visualizing Semi-Structured Data over the Web
The Web is a vast source of semi-structured datasets that are made readily available to support the construction of new knowledge. Information visualization techniques have been demonstrated as a suitable alte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Full End-Users Control of Social Recommendations
Recommender systems are integrated with a significant number of Web applications hel** users to find what may be of their interest. However, these systems do not always satisfy the users’ expectations regard...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Mockup-Based Requirement Specification with End-User Annotations
Agile approaches, one of the key methodologies used in today’s software projects, often rely on user interface mockups for capturing the goals that the system must satisfy. Mockups, as any other requirement a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Improving Legacy Applications with Client-Side Augmentations
Mobile devices have become the most prominent channel to access Web applications. While every mobile device platform like Android or iOS has their own application ecosystem, they are also often used to access...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting Mobile Web Augmentation by End Users
This article presents MoWA Authoring, an End User Development platform supporting the improvement of existing –usually third party– Web applications with mobile features. This enhancement is carried out by th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Search Engines to Augmented Search Services: An End-User Development Approach
The World Wide Web is a vast and continuously changing source of information where searching is a frequent, and sometimes critical, user task. Searching is not always the user’s primary goal but an ancillary ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Web Objects Ambient: An Integrated Platform Supporting New Kinds of Personal Web Experiences
The Personal Web arose to empower end users with the ability to drive and integrate the Web by themselves, according to their own interests. This is usually achieved through Web Augmentation, Mashups or Person...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users
This paper presents a novel approach towards the opportunistic and lightweight distribution of existent Web User Interfaces. We describe an architecture that allows end-users to collect UI objects into a distr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Abstracting and Structuring Web Contents for Supporting Personal Web Experiences
This paper presents a novel approach for supporting abstraction and structuring mechanisms of Web contents. The goal of this approach is to enable users to create/extract Web contents in the form of objects th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Volatile Functionality in Action: Methods, Techniques and Assessment
One of the main features of most Web applications today is their great dynamism. They are undoubtedly characterized by a continuous evolution. After implementing and performing the first deployment of a Web a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
User Interface Adaptation Using Web Augmentation Techniques: Towards a Negotiated Approach
The use of Web augmentation techniques has an impact on tasks of owners of Web sites, developers of scripts and end-users. Because the Web sites can be modified by external scripts, their owners might lose con...
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Article
Open AccessTwo-day Hospital Stay After Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery under an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Pathway
The present study aims to examine the feasibility and safety of a two-day hospital stay after laparoscopic colorectal resection (LCR) under an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway.
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Open AccessGuest Editorial to the Theme Section on Model-Driven Web Engineering
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A Domain Specific Language for Orchestrating User Tasks Whilst Navigation Web Sites
In this paper we claim that there are a lot of processes over Web applications that require a high level of coordination between individuals and tasks featuring procedures. We propose hereafter a Domain Specif...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MockupDD: Facilitating Agile Support for Model-Driven Web Engineering
Model-Driven Web Engineering methodologies provide a more productive way of building Web Applications using high-level models and generating final implementations from them. However, they follow a waterfall-li...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Crowdsourcing Mobile Web Applications
Building Mobile Web or Hypermedia Applications is usually difficult since there is a myriad of issues to take into account. Moreover adding support for personalized or context-aware behaviors goes far beyond t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MockAPI: An Agile Approach Supporting API-first Web Application Development
In the last years, agile development methodologies have been widely adopted. However, they still lack support for API requirements while, at the same time, public RESTful APIs are fueling a rapid growth of web...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Flexible Architecture for Client-Side Adaptation
Currently the Web allows users to perform complex tasks which involve different Web applications. Anyway they still have to face these tasks in a handcrafted way. Although it is possible to build service-based...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Agile Model-Driven Web Engineering
The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling applic...
