Special issue on intelligent internet systems

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 69 KB
• Volume: 102
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3702
• DOI: 10.1016/s0004-3702(98)90013-3

✦ Synopsis

The emergence of the Internet and the World-Wide Web has raised many research challenges for the field of Artificial Intelligence and for Computer Science as a whole. Within AI the WWW has spurred research in fields such as knowledge representation, planning, agents, machine learning and natural language processing. For example,

The application of knowledge representation techniques has allowed researchers to provide an additional layer of structure over the vast amount of Internet information, facilitating query processing and information retrieval. New planning algorithms have been developed in order to flexibly and efficiently locate, retrieve, and manage information on the WWW. The problems of classifying information, modeling the preferences of particular users, and constructing resource models have created new challenge areas for machine learning.

Lightweight semantic analysis techniques from natural language enable robust information extraction from unrestricted text. Multi-agent communication and negotiation protocols may enable information brokers to better distribute information. To date, this research has been scattered amongst specialized conferences devoted to the web, digital libraries, and the various AI subfields. By collecting together extended versions of the best of this research, the Special Issue of ArtiJicial Intelligence will demonstrate the relevance of AI techniques to flexible and convenient Internet systems.