Crawling the web is deceptively simple: the basic algorithm is (a) Fetch a page (b) Parse it to extract all linked URLs (c) For all the URLs not seen before, repeat (a)?(c). Howev...
[Extended Abstract] Ken Wakita Tokyo Institute of Technology 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku Tokyo 152-8552, Japan wakita@is.titech.ac.jp Toshiyuki Tsurumi Tokyo Institute of Technolog...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
The Web is increasingly becoming an important channel for conducting businesses, disseminating information, and communicating with people on a global scale. More and more companie...