Concepts for improved visualization of Web link attributes

Computer Networks

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 403-416

  Weinreich, Harald ^a   Lamersdorf, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HTML; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; WEB BROWSERS;

COGNITIVE OVERHEAD; HYPERLINK; HYPERSCOUT; WEB SERVERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033714665     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(00)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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