Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition

Foreword

The World Wide Web is the underlying infrastructure of an internet-based information society. It is the primary tool that billions of people use to interact on the internet. Industrial progress is made by developing information services on the internet. Today, with the maturity of cloud computing and wireless communications, the web is becoming not only a platform for publishing and accessing information, but also a platform where information services can be developed, deployed, and delivered to billions of users anytime and anywhere. Big data provides rich content for building versatile services and also constitutes the means for enriching the services with intelligence and thus improving the user experience of services on the web. ...