Quality Issues in the Management of Web Information

This research volume presents a sample of recent contributions related to the issue of quality-assessment for Web Based information in the context of information access, retrieval, and filtering systems.The advent of the Web and the uncontrolled process o

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Gabriella Pasi Gloria Bordogna Lakhmi C. Jain (Eds.)

Quality Issues in the Management of Web Information

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Intelligent Systems Reference Library Volume 50

Series Editors J. Kacprzyk, Warsaw, Poland L. C. Jain, Adelaide, Australia

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/8578

Gabriella Pasi · Gloria Bordogna Lakhmi C. Jain Editors

Quality Issues in the Management of Web Information

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Editors Gabriella Pasi Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Milano Italy Gloria Bordogna CNR - IDPA – Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali Dalmine Italy

Lakhmi C. Jain University of Canberra Canberra Australia and University of South Australia South Australia Australia

ISSN 1868-4394 ISSN 1868-4408 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-37687-0 ISBN 978-3-642-37688-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37688-7 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013934982 c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013  This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Foreword

Professor Dr. Carlo Batini Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication University of Milan Bicocca, Milan Italy A book on Quality issues in the management of Web Information has to deal with a pot