Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

We propose a keyword auction protocol called the GSP-ExR (GSP with an exclusive right) in which the number of advertisements displayed around search results can be dynamically adjusted. It is an extension of the generalized second-price (GSP) auction, ...

In this paper we address dynamic assumption-based reasoning in open agent systems, where, unavoidably, agents have incomplete knowledge about their environment and about other agents. The interactions among agents in such systems are typically subject ...

Distributed constraint satisfaction problems (DisCSPs) are often used to solve problems which are naturally distributed over a number of agents on different locations who cooperate to solve the overall problem. One common assumption in DisCSP resolution ...

News is an interesting application domain for “emotion sensing”, since readers often have a personal attitude or subjective opinion regarding certain events or entities reported about. Hence the ability to determine user-centric emotion on a given topic ...

Ontology is an important part of the W3C standards for the Semantic Web, and how to quickly and cheaply construct Web ontologies has become a key technology to enable the Semantic Web. However, information imprecision and uncertainty exist in many real-...

Large amount of online information is or can be represented using semi-structured documents, such as XML. The information contained in an XML document can be effectively represented using a rooted ordered labeled tree. This has made the frequent pattern ...