Improving the Web

Contents of Volumes in This Series......Page 0
Search Engine Optimization-Black and White Hat Approaches\n......Page 9
Background......Page 12
SEO Concepts......Page 13
On-Site Optimization......Page 19
Formatting......Page 23
Black Hat SEO......Page 26
Black Hat Indexing Methods......Page 27
Keyword Stuffing......Page 28
Keyword Stuffing Using Code......Page 30
Content Generation......Page 33
Stats Page Spamming......Page 36
Link Farms......Page 37
SEO Ethics......Page 41
Conclusions for Site Owners and SEO Practitioners......Page 43
References......Page 45
Web Searching and Browsing: A Multilingual Perspective\n......Page 48
Literature Review......Page 50
Regional Impacts and Information Quality......Page 52
Components of Search Engines\n......Page 53
Postretrieval Analysis......Page 54
Manual Categorization\n......Page 55
Automated Approaches\n......Page 56
Semantic Network Technologies\n......Page 57
Chinese-Speaking Regions\n......Page 58
Domain Analysis......Page 61
Analysis Modules......Page 63
Web Directory Building......Page 64
CBizPort: Supporting Metasearching and Data Analysis of Chinese Business Web Pages\n......Page 65
Summary of Findings......Page 72
References......Page 73
Features for Content-Based Audio Retrieval......Page 77
A Brief Overview on Content-Based Audio Retrieval......Page 80
Objective Evaluation of Audio Retrieval Techniques......Page 87
Audio Feature Design......Page 90
Technical Challenges......Page 98
Numeric Challenges......Page 99
A Novel Taxonomy for Audio Features......Page 100
Audio Features......Page 105
Temporal Features......Page 115
Zero Crossing-Based Features......Page 116
Power-Based Features......Page 117
Physical Frequency Features......Page 118
Adaptive Time-Frequency Decomposition-Based Features\n......Page 119
Short-Time Fourier Transform-Based Features\n......Page 120
Brightness......Page 122
Tonality......Page 123
Loudness......Page 125
Perceptual Filter Bank-Based Features......Page 130
Autoregression-Based Features......Page 132
Summary and Conclusions......Page 145
Multimedia Services over Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks\n......Page 157
Acronyms......Page 159
Introduction......Page 160
Medium Access Control Layer......Page 170
Fixed and Mobile WiMAX Generic Scenarios......Page 177
Telemedicine WiMAX Applications......Page 180
Environmental Monitoring WiMAX Applications......Page 181
Advances in Telephony and the Emergence of Voice over IP......Page 184
Digital Telephony (ITU-T G.711)......Page 191
Video Telephony and Teleconferencing (ITU-T G.723.1)\n......Page 192
High-Quality Voice over Packet Data Networks (ITU-T G729.1)\n......Page 193
Speex: An Open-Source Option for Voice Coding\n......Page 194
Voice Codecs in Popular VoIP Applications\n......Page 195
VoIP over WiMAX......Page 197
VoIP over WiMAX with Robust Header Compression\n......Page 209
WiMAX with MIMO......Page 212
Remote Surveillance and IPTV over WiMAX......Page 215
An Overview of Web Effort Estimation......Page 229
Introduction......Page 230
Expert-Based Effort Estimation......Page 233
AI Techniques......Page 241
Case Similarity......Page 243
Analogy Adaptation......Page 245
Adaptation Rules......Page 246
Classification and Regression Trees\n......Page 247
Which Effort Estimation Technique to Use?......Page 259
Previous Studies......Page 260
Discussion......Page 271
Communication Media Selection for Remote Interaction of Ad Hoc Groups\n......Page 277
Task-Classification Frameworks......Page 283
Task Circumplex......Page 284
Complex Tasks Typology......Page 286
Challenges and Needs in Supporting Remote Ad Hoc Groups\n......Page 290
Media Richness Theory......Page 294
Common Ground Theory......Page 296
Media Synchronicity Theory......Page 299
Cognitive-Based View......Page 303
Managing the Context: The Effects of Task, Media, and Group Factors\n......Page 306
Time-Interaction-Performance Theory......Page 308