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Mobile internet browsing usually involves a lot of horizontal and vertical scrolling, which makes web browsing time-consuming and in addition to this user may be interested in a section of a webpage, which may not fit to the mobile screen. This requires more scrolling in both dimensions. In this paper, we propose to address this problem by re-arranging the geometric sequence of the blocks from a large webpage while maintaining their semantics. Our proposed system, Web-adaptor, reduces unnecessary information by allowing its users to see the most relevant blocks of the page and provides the target contents. The Web-adaptor assigns profit to each object of the webpage according to the user preferences. It also assigns a weight to each object of the block by analyzing the object’s elements. It uses greedy algorithm to select the profitable blocks, and delivers them to handheld devices. The proposed solution improves web content accessibility and delivers the target contents to the users.
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Anam, R., Ho, C.K., Lim, T.Y. (2011). A Greedy Approach for Adapting Web Content for Mobile Devices. In: Mohamad Zain, J., Wan Mohd, W.M.b., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Software Engineering and Computer Systems. ICSECS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22170-5_22
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