Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence is a coined at the beginning of the 2000s Buzzword, which is composed of Web and intelligence. The term is used in science, particularly computer science, used differently than in the economy, specifically from consulting companies and software producers. While computer scientists understand the intelligence part of the buzzwords within the meaning of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ), provide provider of consulting and software from more on the aspect of the automatic extraction of relevant business information from the Internet.

Web Intelligence in business

The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO ) called Web Intelligence as a set of software, procedures and processes for the systematic collection and analysis of data obtained over the Internet.

In contrast to business intelligence, where the internal data of the company are used as a source, all available data from the Internet to be used in Web Intelligence.

Objectives of Web Intelligence in companies such as the gain of knowledge about one's own company or the success of their own products - and it is important that this information be processed automatically and the large amount of information available on the Internet is reduced to the interesting quantity. To search companies, social networks according to their product names and evaluate in how often the name was mentioned - but also whether and in what context a link to the company website is given.

Web Intelligence in Science

In the scientific field of Web Intelligence is more broadly defined and as an additional feature for Web Intelligence systems with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI ), ie systems that can respond in a semantic network to better meet the needs of the users.

The largest forum for the AI - coined term Web Intelligence is the international conference series Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference ( AWIC ), taking place since 2003:

  • AWIC 2003, Madrid ( Spain)
  • AWIC 2004, Cancun (Mexico)
  • AWIC 2005, Lodz (Poland )
  • AWIC 2006 in Be'er Sheva (Israel )
  • AWIC 2007 in Fontainebleau ( France)
  • AWIC 2009 in Prague (Czech Republic)
  • AWIC 2011 in Fribourg ( Switzerland )

Held lectures there and submitted papers are published in the Proceedings of this conference series.

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