Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2002

Abstract

Web intelligence can be defined as the process of scanning and tracking information on the World Wide Web so as to gain competitive advantages. This paper describes a system known as Flexible Organizer for Competitive Intelligence (FOCI) that transforms raw URLs returned by internet search engines into personalized information portfolios. FOCI builds information portfolios by gathering and organizing online information according to a user's needs and preferences. Through a novel method called User-Configurable Clustering, a user can personalize his/her portfolios in terms of the content as well as the information structure. The personalized portfolios can then be used to track new information and organize them into appropriate folders accordingly. We show a sample session of FOCI which illustrates how a user may create and personalize an information portfolio according to his/her preferences and how the system discovers novel information groupings while organizing familiar information according to the user-defined themes.

Keywords

Information management, Competitive intelligence, Organizing, Internet, Web sites, Search engines, Information analysis

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | OS and Networks

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

2002 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems FUZZ-IEEE'02: Honolulu, May 12-17: Proceedings

First Page

1045

Last Page

1050

ISBN

9780780372801

Identifier

10.1109/FUZZ.2002.1006648

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/FUZZ.2002.1006648

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