The World Wide Web has become an extremely popular way of publishing and distributing electronic resources.  Though the Web is rich with information, collecting and making sense of this data is difficult because it is rather unorganized. Building an Intelligent Web introduces students and professionals to the state-of-the art development of Web Intelligence techniques and teaches how to apply these techniques to develop the next generation of intelligent Web sites. Each chapter contains theoretical bases, which are also illustrated with the help of simple numeric examples, followed by practical implementation. Students will find Building an Intelligent Web to be an active and exciting introduction to advanced Web mining topics. 

Topics covered include Web Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Classification and Association Rules, SQL, Database Theory, Applications to e-commerce and Bioinformatics, Clustering, Modeling Web Topology, and much more!

Includes IBM DB2 Express-C, a data server used in the development and deployment of applications including: XML, C/C++, Java, .NET, PHP, and more.

Specially designed for advanced undergraduate or first year graduate students, studying:

• Web Mining
• Web Intelligence
• Web Information Retrieval

Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice is also suitable for Web Mining curriculum in mathematics or statistics.

• Theoretical bases are illustrated using simple numeric explanations and practical implementations.

• End-of-chapter set exercises reinforce the textbook material and are suitable as assigned homework problems.

• Each book includes a FREE CD-ROM containing various public domain software packages and datasets discussed in the textbook. The software found on this CD-ROM enables students to carry out all relevant data mining, Web mining, and information retrieval tasks.

• A DB2 Discovery DVD accompanies the textbook and contains DB2 Express-C install for Windows.