Improving Linkage of Web Pages

  • Authors:
  • Rakesh Gupta;Amitava Bagchi;Sumit Sarkar

  • Affiliations:
  • Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, 560071 India;Department of Management Information Systems, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Calcutta 700104, India;School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083, USA

  • Venue:
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Organizations maintain informational websites for wired devices. The information content of such websites tends to change slowly with time, so a steady pattern of usage is soon established. User preferences, both at the individual and at the aggregate level, can then be gauged from user access log files. We propose a heuristic scheme based on simulated annealing that makes use of the aggregate user preference data to re-link the pages to improve navigability. This scheme is also applicable to the initial design of websites for wireless devices. Using the aggregate user preference data obtained from a parallel wired website, and given an upper bound on the number of links per page, our methodology links the pages in the wireless website in a manner that is likely to enable the “typical” wireless user to navigate the site efficiently. Later, when a log file for the wireless website becomes available, the same approach can be used to refine the design further.