Affiliations: Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandsforsking) Sogndal, NO-6851, Norway. E-mail: [email protected] | Université de Lyon, CNRS, UMR5516, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, F-42000, Saint-Etienne, France | Institut National de Sciences Appliquées de Rouen, 76801 Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray Cedex, France. E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Web Intelligence deals with intelligent methods and information & communication technologies that are integrated to enhance different web-based applications. Communities are popular, particularly on the World Wide Web, as a means for like-minded individuals to pursue common goals. Communities appear as a first-class object in the areas of web intelligence and agent technologies, as well as a crucial crossroads of several sub-domains (i.e. user modeling, protocols, data management, data mining, content modeling, etc.). These sub-domains impact the nature of the communities and the applications which are related to them. The use of Web Intelligence and communities is discussed together with ways in which a wide range of research is benefiting this area for the long-term.
Keywords: Distributed artificial intelligence, web intelligence, web communities, multi-agent, retrieval, social networks
