{"title":"Bundling and pricing for information brokerage: customer satisfaction as a means to profit optimization","authors":"D. Somefun, H. L. Poutré","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241191","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, the study of online dynamic pricing and bundling strategies for information goods is motivated by the value-extracting or profit-generating potential of these strategies. Here we discuss the relatively overlooked potential of these strategies to online learn more about customer's preferences. Based on this enhanced customer knowledge an information broker can - by tailoring the brokerage services more to the demand of the various customer groups - persuade customers to engage in repeated transactions (i.e., generate customer lock-in). To illustrate the discussion, we show by means of a basic consumer model how, with the use of online dynamic bundling and pricing algorithms, customer lock-in can occur. The lock-in occurs because the algorithms can both find appropriate prices and (from the customer's perspective) the most interesting bundles. In the conducted computer experiments we use an advanced genetic algorithm with a niching method to learn the most interesting bundles efficiently and effectively, brokerage; recommender systems.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"158 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":"123194334","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}
S. V. Splunter, M. Sabou, F. Brazier, Debbie Richards
{"title":"Configuring Web services, using structuring and techniques from agent configuration","authors":"S. V. Splunter, M. Sabou, F. Brazier, Debbie Richards","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241187","url":null,"abstract":"We explore the use of an agent factory for the composition of Web services. Previously we proposed a structuring approach for automated reconfiguration of agents by an agent factory. The question is whether the same approach can be applied to Web service composition, i.e. whether DAML-S descriptions of Web services offer enough structure for automated configuration by the agent factory. An example trace of the agent factory for configuration of DAML-S Web services illustrates this approach.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"20 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":"125293292","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":"The concept of attribute dimension and corresponding operations","authors":"Yuan Lin, Zhanhuai Li","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241294","url":null,"abstract":"Member attribute is used to describe the property of dimension members. It is not fully understood or well defined by OLAP research community. We focus on a special kind of member attributes that could also be used as dimensions called attribute dimensions. To facilitate this kind of multidimensional data modeling from real-world applications, the classic multidimensional data structure is extended and a group of algebraic operations are introduced to formulate corresponding multidimensional queries. In this extended model, the attribute dimension is regarded as a special 'view' and can be stated either statically or dynamically based on member attribute. With this approach, both ROLAP and MOLAP can benefit from storage saving and reduced processing time. Compared with current OLAP products and research papers, built-in integrity restraint on member attribute and multidimensional data set makes this extended model unique.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"33 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":"114877849","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}
Efstratios Valavanis, C. Ververidis, M. Vazirgiannis, George C. Polyzos, K. Nørvåg
{"title":"MobiShare: sharing context-dependent data & services from mobile sources","authors":"Efstratios Valavanis, C. Ververidis, M. Vazirgiannis, George C. Polyzos, K. Nørvåg","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241203","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid advances in wireless communications technology and mobile computing have enabled personal mobile devices that we use in everyday life to become information and service providers by complementing or replacing fixed-location hosts connected to the wireline network. Such mobile resources is highly important for other moving users, creating significant opportunities for many interesting and novel applications. The MobiShare architecture provides the infrastructure for ubiquitous mobile access and mechanisms for publishing, discovering and accessing heterogeneous mobile resources in a large area, taking into account the context of both sources and requestors. Any wireless communication technology could be used between a device and the system. Furthermore, the use of XML-related languages and protocols for describing and exchanging metadata gives the system a uniform and easily adaptable interface, allowing a variety of devices to use it. The overall approach is data-centric and service-oriented, implying that all devices are treated as producers or requestors of data wrapped as information services.","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":"121850358","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":"Research on modeling with dynamic Bayesian networks","authors":"Fengzhan Tian, Hongwei Zhang, Yuchang Lu","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241278","url":null,"abstract":"For simplicity of calculation, dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs) make assumptions that their evolvement follows Markov process and the transition probabilities in the evolvement are time-invariant. While this is not the case in many real complex systems. For the purpose of modeling these complex systems with DBNs, we attempt to add hidden variables to the evolutional process so as to build Markov models and expand the EM-EA algorithm to the DBNs learning in the presence of hidden variables. Moreover, as for the time-variant transition probabilities, we estimate the suffcient statistics of posterior time slices using polynomial fitting algorithm, and then learns the time-variant transition probabilities with both current sufficient statistics and estimated sufficient statistics. The theoretical analysis demonstrates the validity of the methods. The future work is to do experimental analysis with real complex systems.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"26 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":"127043093","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":"Ubiquitous service interoperation through polyarchical middleware","authors":"Mengjie Yu, A. Taleb-Bendiab, D. Reilly, W. Omar","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241291","url":null,"abstract":"Next generation software applications will be required to run on globally distributed heterogeneous assemblies of disparate resources including: emerging computing grids. Such application calls for seamless integration and interoperation between varieties of service standards and architectures developed and deployed using current service middleware standards and architectures. Whilst such middleware adequately provides different APIs, programming models for distributed components and services integration and interoperation at both design and runtime. There is still need for additional middleware services including the support of runtime multistandard services invocation regardless of the components/service standards and type of middleware used. Based on an ongoing research focusing on self-adaptive software for adaptive middleware, we describe a proposed on-demand (runtime) service invocation mechanism, and the associated service interoperation mechanism.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"88 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":"125675569","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":"Incremental personalized Web page mining utilizing self-organizing HCMAC neural network","authors":"Chih-Ming Chen","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241172","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, information has grown rapidly, especially on the World Wide Web. Also volume of information found by search engines tends to be large, and these documents are not tailored to a user's actual needs and interests. Thus, to offer the personalized service that includes only user interested information become increasingly important. Web mining techniques have proven themselves as a very useful tool for mining information of interests on the Web. However, past pioneers' studies have indicated that the main challenges in Web mining are in terms of handling high-dimensional data, achieving incremental learning (or incremental mining), providing scalable mining and parallel and distributed mining algorithms. We present a novel self-organizing hierarchical CMAC (HCMAC) neural network composed of two-dimensional weighted grey CMACs (WGCMAC) capable of handling both higher dimensional classification problems and self-organizing memory structure according to the distribution of training patterns. Moreover, a learning algorithm that can learn incrementally from new added data without forgetting prior knowledge is proposed to train the self-organizing HCMAC neural network. It can be applied to incrementally learn user profiles from user feedback for identifying personalized Web pages. A benchmark dataset of Web pages ratings that contains four topics of user profiles is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experimental results show that the self-organizing HCMAC neural network has a good incrementally learning ability and can overcome the problem of enormous memory requirement in the conventional CMAC while it is applied to solve the higher dimensional classification problems. Furthermore, experiments also confirm that the self-organizing HCMAC neural network has a better forecasting ability to identify user interesting Web pages than other well-known classifiers do.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"310 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":"131519484","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":"Trust based knowledge outsourcing for semantic Web agents","authors":"Li Ding, Lina Zhou, Timothy W. Finin","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241219","url":null,"abstract":"The semantic Web enables intelligent agents to \"outsource\" knowledge, extending and enhancing their limited knowledge bases. An open question is how agents can efficiently and effectively access the vast knowledge on the inherently open and dynamic semantic Web. The problem is not that of finding a source for desired information, but deciding which among many possibly inconsistent sources is most reliable. We propose an approach to agent knowledge outsourcing inspired by the use trust in human society. Trust is a type of social knowledge and encodes evaluations about which agents can be taken as reliable sources of information or services. We focus on two important practical issues: learning trust and justifying trust. An agent can learn trust relationships by reasoning about its direct interactions with other agents and about public or private reputation information, i.e., the aggregate trust evaluations of other agents. We use the term trust justification to describe the process in which an agent integrates the beliefs of other agents, trust information, and its own beliefs to update its trust model. We describe the results of simulation experiments of the use and evolution of trust in multiagent systems. Our experiments demonstrate that the use of explicit trust knowledge can significantly improve knowledge outsourcing performance. We also describe a collaborative trust justification technique that focuses on reducing search complexity, handling inconsistent knowledge, and avoiding error propagation.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"26 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":"131552252","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}
D. Pacey, E. Dempster, M. H. Williams, A. Cawsey, D. Marwick, L. Mackinnon
{"title":"A toolkit for creating personalized presentations","authors":"D. Pacey, E. Dempster, M. H. Williams, A. Cawsey, D. Marwick, L. Mackinnon","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241264","url":null,"abstract":"With the explosion in the availability of information online, users are finding it increasingly difficult to track down the specific material that they require. Users are therefore becoming increasingly dependent on intelligent services to provide information that is dynamically selected and presented according to their preferences. However, development of these personalized services is not trivial. Significant effort is required in terms of engineering the underlying knowledge that is used by a service to determine which information might be relevant to a particular user and how to present it. A Toolkit that reduces the complexity involved in the creation and maintenance of such services is discussed.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"42 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":"131788578","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":"Mining social network of conference participants from the Web","authors":"Y. Matsuo, H. Tomobe, K. Hasida, M. Ishizuka","doi":"10.1109/WI.2003.1241192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WI.2003.1241192","url":null,"abstract":"In a ubiquitous computing environment, it is desirable to provide a user with information depending on a user's situation, such as time, location, user behavior, and social context. At conventions, such as academic conferences and exhibitions, where participants must register in advance, the social context of participants can be extracted from the Web using their names and affiliations without asking the participants many questions. Here, we attempt to extract the social network of participants from the Web, where a node represents a participant and an edge represents the relationship of two participants. Each edge is added using the number of pages retrieved by a search engine which include both participants names. Moreover, each edge has a label such as \"coauthors\" and \"members of the same project\" by applying classification rules to the page content. We show an example of the extracted network and make a preliminary evaluation. This network can be used in many information services, such as finding an appropriate introducer or negotiator, and who one should talk to in order to efficiently expand his/her network.","PeriodicalId":403574,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2003)","volume":"77 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":"115803005","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}