Abstract: A system that supports the editor of an journal web site into deciding the layout of the homepage of the journal web site; the homepage is divided into a set of zones, and each zone consists of several locations; articles are published into each location; and the system suggests ways to rearrange the articles published in the homepages into different locations within the same zone, in order to maximize the total number of clicks generated by the homepage of the journal web site.

Abstract: A system that supports the editor of an journal web site into deciding the layout of the homepage of the journal web site; the homepage is divided into a set of zones, and each zone consists of several locations; articles are published into each location; and the system suggests ways to rearrange the articles published in the homepages into different locations within the same zone, in order to maximize the total number of clicks generated by the homepage of the journal web site.

Abstract: A method and a system for the sale of products through the Internet by displaying advertising banners in a web page; the display system has: a server computer connected to the Internet; a memory space, stored in which is an advertising-banner template, a plurality of advertising messages, and for each advertising message at least one respective criterion of choice; a processing device of the server computer for determining, following upon a request for loading the web page by a remote client device connected to the Internet, at least one characteristic of the navigation context of the remote client device itself, a comparison device of the server computer for comparing the characteristic of the navigation context with the criteria of choice; a generation device of the server computer for generating dynamically an advertising banner using the advertising-banner template; and a communication device of the server computer for transferring the advertising banner to the remote client device.

Abstract: A spatial knowledge base approach for the automatic extraction of metadata 116 from electronic documents 100. The electronic document 100 is converted to a substantially format invariant data file 104 by an intermediate language conversion element 102. Spatial layout facts 108 are extracted and combined with spatial layout rules 114 from a knowledge engineer 112 in a spatial metadata-reasoning element 110 to provide the metadata 116. The invention is based on mimicking the visual and spatial knowledge that humans make use of when reading a document.

Abstract: A brushless alternator consisting of interconnected stator coils disposed in stator plates and surrounding the main winding of the rotor and including rectifiers coupled to the stator coils. The rotor is on a shaft supported within the housing of the alternator, and includes an exciter with shaft-mounted rectifiers for supplying a DC voltage to the main winding of the rotor. The exciter field coil is spool wound on a cylindrical core that is contained within the exciter stator, that is attached to the alternator housing. The field coil has a concentric opening for slidably receiving the rotor shaft. The exciter rotor armature does not rotate, but is affixed to the alternator housing and surrounds the outer periphery of the exciter field coil. The main winding of the rotor has a cylindrical sleeve extending from one end to engage and support the exciter rotor armature in alignment with the exciter stator.