Many diverse small devices, such as smart phones and personal digital
assistants, are being deployed to access the Internet. Small devices
typically have limited display and processing capabilities. It is
thus difficult to effectively present a table of information on these
different devices such that the table can be easily browsed by the
users.
In this paper, we present the design and prototype implementation of
{\em TabSum}, a flexible and dynamic table summarization approach to
reducing tables into smaller but still meaningful representations for
various devices. TabSum supports easy browsing of a large table by
various devices and provides personalization by taking into account
both device capabilities and user preferences. Upon requests, a set
of table reduction rules are dynamically applied to the rows and
columns of a table to reduce its size. The approach is flexible and
dynamic. It summarizes both numeric and non-numeric data types. We
describe the design issues and a prototype implementation of TabSum.
By: Kun-Lung Wu, Ming-Ling Lo, Philip S. Yu
Published in: RC21593 in 1999
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