Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of artificial intelligence and advanced information technology for the next generation of Web-empowered systems, services, and environments. Web Intelligence is regarded as the key research field for the development of the Wisdom Web (including the Semantic Web). As the first book devoted to Web Intelligence, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and a systematic overview of this new field. It presents both the current state of research and development as well as application aspects. The book will be a valuable and lasting source of reference for researchers and developers interested in Web Intelligence. Students and developers will additionally appreciate the numerous illustrations and examples. Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV Web Intelligence (WI): A New Paradigm for Developing the Wisdom Web and Social Network Intelligence....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Agent-Based Characterization of Web Regularities....Pages 19-36 Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: the Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web....Pages 37-58 Designing Scenarios for Social Agents....Pages 59-76 Using Agent Technology to Improve the Quality of Web-Based Education....Pages 77-101 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Discovering Business Intelligence Information by Comparing Company Web Sites....Pages 105-127 Discovery of Indirect Associations from Web Usage Data....Pages 128-152 Knowledge-Based Wrapper Induction for Intelligent Web Information Extraction....Pages 153-172 Web Log Mining....Pages 173-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Personalized and Focused Web Spiders....Pages 197-217 Exploiting the Web as Parallel Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 218-239 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Knowledge Representation, Sharing, and Retrieval on the Web....Pages 243-276 On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web-Enabled Knowledge Management....Pages 277-300 Ontology Learning Part One — on Discovering Taxonomic Relations from the Web....Pages 301-319 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Algorithmic Aspects of Web Intelligent Systems....Pages 323-344 Web Document Prefetching on the Internet....Pages 345-363 Front Matter....Pages 365-365 Social Networks: From the Web to Knowledge Management....Pages 367-379 A Ranking Algorithm Based on Graph Topology to Generate Reputation or Relevance....Pages 380-394 Communityware That Facilitates Knowledge Interactions....Pages 395-418 Social Intelligence Design for Web Intelligence....Pages 419-437 Back Matter....Pages 438-440 This book is the first coherently written multi-author monograph on Web Intelli­ gence (WI). It offers a thorough introduction and a systematic overview of the new field. It reflects the current state of the research and development in various areas of WI, as well as theoretical and application aspects of WI and Web-based intelligent information systems and services. It highlights several promising WI topics, which will impact on the development of the ultimate Wisdom Web. The book contains one introductory paper and 19 survey/research papers. The papers are structured into six parts: Web agents, Web mining and farming, Web information retrieval, Web knowledge management, the infrastructure for Web in­ telligent systems, and social network intelligence. We conceived and coined the notion Web Intelligence in late 1999. Back then although there was a variety of Web- or Internet-related conferences, journals, and books, none was devoted to the intelligence aspects of Web information systems and services. It was felt that there was a need for a conference, a journal, and/or books for researchers, scientists, and industry practitioners who wanted to publish and exchange ideas on Web Intelligence. At the 24th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Confer­ ence (IEEE COMPSAC) in 2000, we first introduced Web Intelligence. In 2001, the first Web Intelligence conference (WI 2001, http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wiOll) was successfully held in Maebashi, Japan. This excellently written monograph provides – for the first time ever - a thorough introduction and systematic overview of all aspects of intelligent data processing on the Web. It presents both the current state of research as well as application aspects. All major topics related to Web Intelligence which can have impact on future directions and developments are presented in detail. This book will be a valuable source of reference for years to all research and development professionals interested in Web Intelligence. Students will also appreciate the numerous illustrations and examples. "As the first book devoted to Web Intelligence, this multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and a systematic overview of this new field. It presents both the current state of research and development as well as application aspects. The book will be a valuable and lasting source of reference for researchers and developers interested in Web Intelligence. Students and developers will additionally appreciate the numerous illustrations and examples."--Jacket