{"title":"Web farming and data warehousing for energy tradefloors","authors":"Carsten Felden, Peter Chamoni","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241286","url":null,"abstract":"The recent liberalisation of the German energy market forced the energy industry to develop and install new information systems to support agents on the energy trading floors in their analytical tasks. Besides classical approaches of building a data warehouse to give insight into the time series to understand market and pricing mechanisms it is crucial to provide a variety of external data from the Web. Weather information as well as political news or market rumors are relevant to give the right interpretation to the variables of a volatile energy market. Starting from a multidimensional data model and a collection of buy and sell transactions, a data warehouse is built that gives analytical support to the agents. Following the idea of Web farming, we harvest the Web, match the external information sources after a filtering and evaluation process to the data warehouse objects and present this qualified information on a user interface where market values are correlated with those external sources over the time axis.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129486712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic composition of Web service workflows using a semantic agent","authors":"J. Korhonen, Lasse Pajunen, J. Puustjärvi","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241269","url":null,"abstract":"We present a way to automatically compose Web service workflow that uses component Web services. The Web services workflows are described using our transactional workflow ontology. The workflow ontology can be used to describe both component Web service workflows and master Web service workflows. We have also implemented a workflow engine that runs the workflow instances. Here we analyze using our ontology and some workflow instances with a reasoning agent to automatically find a composed workflow that fulfills all given constraints. The result from the inference is a workflow instance that can be executed using our workflow engine. We see that this kind of dynamic composition is needed in dynamic heterogeneous environments with loosely coupled Web services.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114199838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Bianchi-Berthouze, Naoto Katsumi, Harutaka Yoneyama, S. Bhalla, T. Izumita
{"title":"Supporting the interaction between user and Web-based multimedia information","authors":"N. Bianchi-Berthouze, Naoto Katsumi, Harutaka Yoneyama, S. Bhalla, T. Izumita","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241275","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, a major activity on the Internet is the retrieval and browsing of multimedia information. Yet, today 's search engines are not really up to the task. Users often have to query various search engines and browse many Web sites before finding a satisfactory answer. Once users find such an answer, presentation of the results is very rigid, i.e., not tailored to the users' needs, and it does not enable users to manipulate the data. Thus, this retrieval activity often becomes tedious. To improve user-information interaction, a major issue is to give search-engines the ability to access data semantics. We propose a framework to address the issue. Our framework combines database and multimedia data mining to endow Web-based applications with the ability to let users manipulate the data at different levels of interest. As an experimental testbed, we implemented a holiday planner that supports users in their search for a hotel. By using database technology, Web-based multimedia interaction becomes possible, offering as a side effect more feasible and reliable feedback.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121041789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constraining model-based reasoning using contexts","authors":"L. Gong, D. Riecken","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241253","url":null,"abstract":"Web-based customer service has become a norm of business practice with increasing emphasis on modeling customer needs and providing them with targeted or personalized service solutions in a timely fashion. Almost all the commercial Web service systems adopt some kind of simple customer segmentation models and shallow pattern matching or rule-based techniques for high performance. The models built based on these techniques though very efficient have a fundamental limitation in their ability to capture and explain the reasoning in the process of determining and selecting appropriate services or products. However, using deep models (e.g. semantic networks), though desirable for their expressive power, may require significantly more computational resources (e.g. time) for reasoning. This can compromise the system performance. We report on a new approach that represents and uses contextual information in semantic net-based models to constrain and prune potentially very large search space, which results in much improved performance in terms of speed and selectivity as evidenced by the evaluation results.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"30 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125813175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing explanation ontology for agent system","authors":"Xiaomeng Su, M. Matskin, Jinghai Rao","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241212","url":null,"abstract":"The overall issue is to improve semantic interoperability among and across agent systems. We propose to use explanation as a way to approach that aim. The explanation process is expressed in terms of an explanation ontology shared by the agents who participate to the explanation session. The explanation ontology is defined in a way general enough to support a variety of explanation mechanisms. We describe the explanation ontology and provide a working through example illustrating how the proposed generic ontology can be used to develop specific explanation mechanism. Finally, the ontology is being integrated into a running agent platform - Agora to demonstrate the practical usefulness of the approach.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126691700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IISM: an image internal semantic model for image database based on relevance feedback","authors":"Lijuan Duan, Wen Gao","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241258","url":null,"abstract":"A semantic model - IISM (image internal semantic model) is introduced. Unlike other semantic extracting methods, IISM extracts the semantic information not by image segmentation and image understanding, but by analyzing relevance feedback image retrieval results. For relevance feedback image retrieval system, the images relevant to query are pointed as positive example, otherwise the images irrelevant to query are pointed as negative examples. It is assumed that these positive examples are related in semantic content. IISM computes comprehensive pair-wise mutual information for all images through analyzing the results of relevance feedback image retrieval. An association with a high mutual information means that one image is semantically associated with another. Semantic retrieval and clustering is carried out based on these association relationships.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115905331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zonghuan Wu, Vijay V. Raghavan, Hua Qian, Rama Vuyyuru, W. Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu
{"title":"Towards automatic incorporation of search engines into a large-scale metasearch engine","authors":"Zonghuan Wu, Vijay V. Raghavan, Hua Qian, Rama Vuyyuru, W. Meng, Hai He, Clement T. Yu","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241290","url":null,"abstract":"A metasearch engine supports unified access to multiple component search engines. To build a very large-scale metasearch engine that can access up to hundreds of thousands of component search engines, one major challenge is to incorporate large numbers of autonomous search engines in a highly effective manner. To solve this problem, we propose automatic search engine discovery, automatic search engine connection, and automatic search engine result extraction techniques. Experiments indicate that these techniques are highly effective and efficient.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116287551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information-need driven query refinement","authors":"N. Stojanović","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241220","url":null,"abstract":"We present a framework for query refinement that is driven by users' information needs. Since a query just approximates a user's need, we analyze the ambiguities of that query with respect to the vocabulary used for querying and the information repository. The goal is to determine the refinements that can help the user to express his original need more clearly. Particularly, a user is provided with the queries that are \"nearby\" the given query and a \"compass\" for determining the ways of changing the ambiguities of the query. The neighborhood of a query is defined regarding the result of that query. The formal concept analysis is used for its efficient calculation. We present an evaluation study that shows the benefits of our approach.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116495128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal Web usage mining","authors":"Mofreh A. Hogo, M. Snorek, P. Lingras","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241237","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal Web usage mining involves application of data mining techniques on temporal Web usage data to discover temporal patterns, which describe the temporal behavior of Web users. Clusters and associations in Web usage mining do not necessarily have crisp boundaries. We introduce the temporal Web usage mining of Web users on one educational Web site, using the adapted Kohonen SOM based on rough set properties [L. J. Pawan et al. (2002)].","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114546572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. J. Viamonte, C. Ramos, F. Rodrigues, J. Cardoso
{"title":"A simulation-based approach for testing market strategies in electronic marketplaces","authors":"M. J. Viamonte, C. Ramos, F. Rodrigues, J. Cardoso","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241248","url":null,"abstract":"With the increasing importance of electronic commerce across the Internet it is becoming increasingly evident that in a few years the Internet will host large numbers of interacting software agents. A vast number of them will be economically motivated, and will exchange a variety of goods and services. It is therefore important to consider the economic incentives and behaviours of economic software agents, and to use every available means to anticipate their collective interactions. We address this concern by presenting a market simulator designed for analysing agent market strategies based on a complete understanding of buyer and seller behaviours, preference model and pricing algorithms.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132219294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}