Web reconfiguration by spatio-temporal page personalization rules based on access histories

We propose an idea for reconfiguring the contents of Web pages based on users' spatio-temporal information (time and location) and their access histories. The major objective of the proposed mechanism is to realize the reflection of a Web page author's intention about his Web data. The active rules of active database systems are closely related to our use of Web reconfiguration for changing the view of a page. We regard: a user's request for reading a page, combined with his situation (location, date, schedule and etc.) as an event; and an access history of each user and/or an aggregation of accesses as a condition of our page personalization rule. Also, the behavior of the server is regarded as an action. A page personalization rule for Web page reconfiguration is described in a declarative manner, which the author can define easily as its metadata.

1. Introduction

Currently, a vast number of Web pages are stored on Internet sites, and the authors connect them using the hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are very flexible in the sense that they allow authors to freely connect their pages with each other.