OSSES: An Online System for Studies on Evaluation of Systems
Catherine Mulwa, Mary Sharp, Vincent Wade, Séamus Lawless · 2010
In recent years, due to exponential increase in the number of internet users, finding the appropriate information is difficult. Web crawlers represent a significant component in Web search engines. This contribution describes a Web based distributed system designed as a 3-tier architecture consisting of: the presentation layer, the business logic layer and the data persistence layer. The main educational benefit of our system is to provide a reference tool that has an interactive database to encourage evaluations of systems that fulfill certain methodological requirements. The synopsis of studies collected can be used as a basis of a searchable online database that provides an overview of the state-of-the-art to the scientific community and encourages other scientists to evaluate their own system. It will also help students identify pitfalls in the planning process as well as in the analysis of collected data and also identify omissions in the state-of-the-art in future. The collaborative nature of our tool enables sharing information among research students providing them a larger view of the state-of-the-art. The architecture includes RSS Feed Management, Paper Subscription, Smart URL Analysis and Document Downloading. The RSS Feed Management allows a user to manage a set of Web feed formats that will publish most recent papers. As soon as a paper is published via RSS Feed, the paper subscription module automatically creates metadata. Upon receiving the document link, the Document Downloading module copies the document to a local repository. The system has been tested and evaluated showing good performance.