Advances in Web Intelligence Third International Atlantic Web In
In recent years the Internet has become a source of data and information of indisputable importance and has immensely gained in acceptance and popularity. The World Wide Web (WWW or Web, for short), frequently named “the nervous system of the infor- tion
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Piotr S. Szczepaniak Janusz Kacprzyk Adam Niewiadomski (Eds.)
Advances in Web Intelligence Third International Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference AWIC 2005 Lodz, Poland, June 6-9, 2005 Proceedings
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Piotr S. Szczepaniak Adam Niewiadomski Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Computer Science ul. Wólcza´nska 215, 93-005 Lodz, Poland E-mail: {office, aniewiadomski}@ics.p.lodz.pl Janusz Kacprzyk Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute ul. Newelska 6, 01-447 Warsaw, Poland E-mail: [email protected]
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3-5, C.2, J.1, J.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-26219-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-26219-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
In recent years the Internet has become a source of data and information of indisputable importance and has immensely gained in acceptance and popularity. The World Wide Web (WWW or Web, for short), frequently named “the nervous system of the information society,” offers numerous valuable services leaving no doubt about the significance of the Web in our daily activities at work and at home. Consequently, we have a clear aspiration to meet the obvious need for effective use of its potential by making improvements in both the methods and the technology applied. Among the new research directions observable in Web-related applications, intelligent methods from within the broadly perceived topic of soft computing occupy an important place. AWIC, the “Atlantic Web Intelligence Conferences” are intended to be a forum for exchange of new ideas and novel practical solutions in this new and exciting field. The conference was born as an initiative of the WIC-Poland and the WIC-Spain Research Centres, both belonging to the Web Intelligence Consortium – WIC (http://wi-consortium.org/). So far, three AWIC conferences have been held: in Madrid, Spain (2003), in Cancun, Mexico (2004), and in
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