During the last decade significant progress has been made in Internet technology by using computational intelligence methods. This book presents reports from the front of soft computing in the Internet industry and covers important topics in the field such as search engines, fuzzy query, decision analysis and support systems as well as e-business and e-commerce. The articles are selected results from a recent workshop (Fuzzy Logic and the Internet - FLINT 2001) related to the Internet Fuzzy Logic hosted by the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) program. The main purpose of the Workshop was to draw the attention of the fuzzy logic community as well as the Internet community to the fundamental importance of specific Internet-related problems including search engines, user modeling and personal information provision, e-commerce, e-business, e-health, semantic web/net, web-assistant and agents, knowledge representation for e-learning, content-based information retrieval, information organization, intrusion detection and network management. The book presents a collection of challenging problems and new directions toward the next generation of search engines and the Internet.

Presents new directions toward the next generation of search engines and the internet Selection of articles from the BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing) program workshop FLINT 2001 Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt
Enhancing the Power of the Internet.- Soft Computing and User Modeling.- Intelligent Web Searching Using Hierarchical Query Descriptions.- Relationships at the Heart of Semantic Web: Modeling, Discovering, and Exploiting Complex Semantic Relationships.- Subjective Enhancement and Measurement of Web Search Quality.- Internet-enabled Soft Computing Holarchies for e-Health Applications Soft Computing Enhancing the Internet and the Internet Enhancing Soft Computing .- Searching and Smushing on the Semantic Net Challenges for Soft Computing.- Dialogue-Based interaction with a web assistant: The Device Approach.- Personalized Library Web Search Agents Using Data Mining and Granular Fuzzy Techniques.- Business Operation Intelligence.- Evaluating E-commerce projects using an information fusion methodology.- Dynamic Knowledge Representation for e-Learning Applications.- Content Based Vector Coder for Efficient Information Retrieval.- A Reference Model for Intelligent Information Search.- Soft Computing and Personal Information Provision.- Soft Computing and Information Organization.- Fuzzy Detection of Network Intrusions and Integrated Network Management.- Smart Homepage-Finder A Genetic Fuzzy Neural Agent for Searching Homepages Intelligently.