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Automatic Optimization of Web Navigation Sequences

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Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing ((AINSC,volume 157))

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Web automation applications are widely used for different purposes such as B2B integration, automated testing of web applications or technology and business watch. In this work-in-progress paper we outline a set of techniques which constitute the basis to build a web navigation component able to analyze a web navigation sequence and automatically optimize it, detecting which parts of the loaded pages are needed, and which ones can be discarded in the following executions of the sequence. Our techniques build on the Document Object Model and the first tests executed with real web sources have found them to be very effective.

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  1. Information and Communications Technology Department, University of A Coruña Facultad de Informática, Campus de Elviña, s/n, 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    José Losada, Juan Raposo, Alberto Pan & Javier López

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  1. José Losada
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  1. Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  2. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  3. Poznan University of Technology, Strzelecka 11, Poznan, 60-965, Poland

    Paulina Golinska

  4. Faculté des Sciences, Département de mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boul. Université, Sherbrooke, J1K 2R1, Canada

    Sylvain Giroux

  5. ETSI Informática, Avda. Reina Mercedes, s/n, Sevilla, 41012, Spain

    Rafael Corchuelo

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Losada, J., Raposo, J., Pan, A., López, J. (2012). Automatic Optimization of Web Navigation Sequences. In: Rodríguez, J., Pérez, J., Golinska, P., Giroux, S., Corchuelo, R. (eds) Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28795-4_15

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