This book is the first coherently written multi-author monograph on Web Intelli­ gence (WI). 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.

1. Web Intelligence (WI): A New Paradigm for Developing the Wisdom Web and Social Network Intelligence.- I. Web Agents.- 2. Agent-Based Characterization of Web Regularities.- 3. Agent-Based Composite Services in DAML-S: the Behavior-Oriented Design of an Intelligent Semantic Web.- 4. Designing Scenarios for Social Agents.- 5. Using Agent Technology to Improve the Quality of Web-Based Education.- II. Web Mining and Farming.- 6. Discovering Business Intelligence Information by Comparing Company Web Sites.- 7. Discovery of Indirect Associations from Web Usage Data.- 8. Knowledge-Based Wrapper Induction for Intelligent Web Information Extraction.- 9. Web Log Mining.- III. Web Information Retrieval.- 10. Personalized and Focused Web Spiders.- 11. Exploiting the Web as Parallel Corpora for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- IV. Web Knowledge Management.- 12. Knowledge Representation, Sharing, and Retrieval on the Web.- 13. On-To-Knowledge: Semantic Web-Enabled Knowledge Management.- 14. Ontology Learning Part One — on Discovering Taxonomic Relations from the Web.- V. Infrastructure for Web Intelligent Systems.- 15. Algorithmic Aspects of Web Intelligent Systems.- 16. Web Document Prefetching on the Internet.- VI. Social Network Intelligence.- 17. Social Networks: From the Web to Knowledge Management.- 18. A Ranking Algorithm Based on Graph Topology to Generate Reputation or Relevance.- 19. Communityware That Facilitates Knowledge Interactions.- 20. Social Intelligence Design for Web Intelligence.- Author Index.

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.

From the reviews: "The book deals with … problems of web distributed intelligence. This book is the first coherently written multi-author monograph on Web Intelligence (WI). It offers a thorough introduction and systematic overview of the new fields. … This monograph is recommended by the WIC as the first book on WI research. … The book is a valuable and lasting source of reference for researchers and developers interested in WI. Developers and students additionally appreciate numerous illustrations and examples." (Ing. Jaroslav Veselý, Neural Network World, Vol. 14 (6), 2004) "The book studies both the intelligent method of Web use and the intelligent Web services and the Infrastructure. … This interesting book will be useful not only for Web theorists, scientists and pioneers, but it gives a comprehensive look at today’s research direction. From this viewpoint it can be interesting for many practitioners. … the book brings useful information also for scientists in many different fields, especially for robotics and design theories." (Tomas Brandejsky, Neural Network World, Vol. 13 (6), 2003)

Comprehensive overview over this emerging research area Key contributions from leading researchers, Zhong coined the term "web intelligence" Covers all areas of intelligent data processing in the Web like web agents, web knowledge mangement, web information systems, ontologies Covers both theoretical and application aspects Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras