Title: Crawling Rich Internet Applications

Abstract: Modern websites are not just a collection of static html pages. We now have web applications with pages that are very dynamic where for a given URL, a page can exist at various states due to changes enabled by techniques such as AJAX. These rich internet applications present problems for existing methods of crawling used for tasks such as indexing websites for search, or security and accessibility testing. This seminar looks at some of the recent research aimed at enabling the crawling and modeling of these rich internet applications and discusses some of our research plans.