Useful Resources and Links

Links to related projects, interesting papers, etc. Additional resources and papers can be found under the EPL602 web page. Very useful tools to locate electronic versions of papers and bibliographical references are:

The Research Index by NEC.
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies.
The ACM Digital Library.
IEEE Digital Library.
Springer LINK.
Distributed Systems On-line by IEEE Computer Society.
The Catalog of UCY Library.
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link HEAL-Link (access to the digital libraries of a number of scientific publishers, from UCY intranet only).

Guidelines on Technical Writing, Presentations and Reviewing

Good tips on Paper Writing, Presentations and Reviewing, A. Fox, Stanford University.
Michalis Faloutsos' resources.

Device Independence

W3C Activity on Device Independence.
W3C Delivery Context Workshop, March 2002.

Papers on Tracking Websites and Maintaining multiple Web-page versions

"TopBlend: An Efficient Implementation of HtmlDiff in Java," by Yih-Farn Chen, Fred Douglis, Huale Huang, and Kiem-Phong Vo, ATT Labs.
"The AT&T Internet Difference Engine: Tracking and Viewing Changes on the Web", by Fred Douglis, Thomas Ball, Yih-Farn Chen, and Eleftherios Koutsofios, World Wide Web, pp. 27-44. January 1998. Also published as AT&T Labs--Research TR 97.23.1, April, 1997.
Website News: A Website Tracking and Visualization Service, by Yih-Farn Chen, Glenn Fowler, Emden Gansner and Eleftherios Koutsofios, ATT Labs.

Search Engines and Crawlers

Heydon, A., and Najork, M., Mercator: A Scalable, Extensible Web Crawler, World Wide Web, Dec. 1999.

Projects of Relevance

WBI by IBM, Almaden.
iMobile: A Proxy-Based Mobile Service Platform, AT&T Labs - Research.
Short Messages, Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University.
The Ninja Project: Enabling Internet-scale Services from Arbitrarily Small Devices, UC Berkeley.
Proteus project: Web site personalizers, University of Washington.
AgentLink Network of Excellence for Agent-based Computing.

Interesting News and Reports

Teaching Search Engine, Mercury News, May 2002.
Digital Content for Global Mobile Services, Executive Summary of European Commission's task-force (in pdf).
In the future, you'll pluck your info from thin air, USA Today, 20/7/2001.
Europe's Mobile Internet opens up; a Forrester Report, 1999.

Pictures

Marios and Demetris in Munich, for PADDA 2001.
Another one from PADDA 2001 (in Munich's town hall).