In general, a search engine is used to obtain information about specified keywords of interest. However, users must go through the list of web pages presented by the search engine in order to find the page that meets the purpose. In order to reduce this burden, we propose Web Index (WIX), a hyperlink generation system that achieves joining information resources on the web. The WIX system replaces keywords that appear in Web documents on browser into hyperlinks to a specific web page group of the user's choice. However, when there are multiple URLs paired up with a keyword, there is a need to choose the web page that meets the user's purpose. In this paper, we propose WIX System and an architecture that decides and presents likely candidates for hyperlink destination based on similarity of URLs and the content of each candidate.

Recently, a demand for a mobile-friendly web page is rising, but creating and maintaining separate sites for mobile and desktop is costly for web developers. At our laboratory, we have been designing and developing SuperSQL, an extension of SQL that can generate HTML files that contain values stored in RDBs. In this paper, we propose an approach to generate both mobile and desktop versions of a web page with just one SuperSQL query. We believe our approach can facilitate the laborious work of creating and maintaining separate sites for mobile and desktop environments.

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Purpose With the rapid spread of smartphones and tablets, it is becoming necessary for web developers to create responsive web pages which are visually appealing on devices of various sizes. However, building responsive UIs is a very challenging task, requiring deep knowledge of HTML and CSS. This paper aims to propose an approach to generate responsive web pages using SuperSQL, which is an extension of SQL that can format data retrieved from a database into various kinds of structured documents. Design/methodology/approach By incorporating the methodology of bootstrap, a grid-based framework for front-end development, the authors have made it possible to create responsive web pages from simple SuperSQL queries. In addition, by utilizing SuperSQL’s unique feature that can describe the structure of the output web page, the authors have proposed and implemented a mechanism to automatically optimize the web content’s size and position. Findings In the evaluation, the authors created some actual web applications with and without the use of SuperSQL and compared the code amount (number of lines). As a result, when using the proposed system, the amount of code was reduced to about 1/5. The authors also compared the layout generated by the proposed automatic layout generation mechanism with the responsive layout that was generated manually. As a result, the automatic layout generation mechanism created the same layout as the manually created layout 74.8 per cent of the time, and the user satisfaction level turned out to be 85.8 per cent. Originality/value The way to generate a responsive HTML by using a single SuperSQL query, and the mechanism for automatic responsive layout generation.