• Provides valuable insight into the progress and direction of development of the World Wide Web and its likely future applications in science and business.
• Reviews the prospects for the Web to develop intelligent services (such as online businesses, games, purchases, new search capabilities, and accessibility to trustworthy information).
• Offers a view for thinking about thinking on the Web.
• The companion website offers access to supplemental text, specialized information, additional examples, demos, tools reference material, and advanced applications.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Who This Book Is For.

The Organization of This Book.

Associated Resources.

PART I: WHAT IS WEB INTELLIGENCE?

1 Empowering the Information Age.

Overview.

Thinking and Intelligent Web Applications.

The Information Age.

The World Wide Web.

Limitations of Today’s Web.

The Next Generation Web.

Why Intelligent Ubiquitous Devices Improve Productivity.

Conclusion.

Exercises.

Interlude #1: Thinking about Thinking.

2 G¨odel: What is Decidable?

Overview.

Philosophical and Mathematical Logic.

Kurt G¨odel.

Knowledge Representation.

Computational Logic.

Artificial Intelligence.

Web Architecture and Business Logic.

The Semantic Web.

Conclusion.

Exercises.

Interlude #2: Truth and Beauty.

3 Turing: What is Machine Intelligence?

Overview.

What is Machine Intelligence?

Alan Turing.

Turing Test and the Loebner Prize.

John Searle’s Chinese Room.

Artificial Intelligence.

Machine Intelligence.

Semantic Networks and Frames.

Reasoning with Semantic Networks.

Computational Complexity.

Description Logic.

Ontology.

Inference Engines.

Software Agents.

Adaptive Software.

Limitations and Capabilities.

Conclusion.

Exercises.

Interlude #3: Computing Machines.

4 Berners-Lee: What is Solvable on the Web?

Overview. <