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Web Intelligence
Intelligent
Web-Based Business
Web Information
Retrieval
Intelligent
Human-Web
Interaction
Web Information
Management
Ubiquitous Computing
and Social Intelligence
Emerging Web
Technology and
Infrastructure
Web Mining
and Farming
Web Agents
Knowledge Networks
and Management
Figure 3.1: Research Topics of Web Intelligence
Ubiquitous Computing and Social Intelligence covers web intelligence re-
search issues related to ubiquitous web access, e.g. accessing the wireless
web using mobile devices. Two examples are:
1. method for adaptive personalization of content for mobile users, Bill-
2. personalizing a web site for cellular phones by removing redundant
This topic is relevant to the thesis since paper A presents an agent-based
platform for the support of ubiquitous access to mobile commerce services,
and paper B proposes peer-to-peer based product recommendation func-
tionality to the platform.
Web Mining and Farming covers data mining of user profiles and web logs.
Two examples are:
1. Detection of correlations between customers and products on e-commerce
2. Personalized search engines by altering the ranking of search results
This topic is relevant to the thesis since paper I applies the classifier pro-
posed in paper F for data mining of click-streams from a web usage logs and
a synthetic game usage log. Paper E compares web usage mining with data