Institut für Informatik III
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Datenbanken * Informationssysteme * Softwaretechnologie * Mustererkennung * Bildverarbeitung * Künstliche Intelligenz * Robotik

Seminar Topics:

• The World-wide Web:
  • The role of intelligent systems in the National Information Infrastructure: MIT Web Site
    • NII
    • A report
    • Research Challenges for the Next Generation Internet
    • The Role of Intelligent Systems in the National Information Infrastructure
  • Building Global Knowledge Webs --- Knowledge Representation for the Web.
  • WWW Consortium
  • About the Web
  • HTML Markup
  • WWW Conferences
• Java and how to operate in the WWW using Java:
  • JAVA Info
  • JAVA Overview
  • Object-oriented modelling of the Web in Java
• CL-HTTP a full-featured server for Internet Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • Creating Intelligent Web Applications with the Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP)
• Web Crawlers:
  • SPHINX: a framework for creating personal, site-specific Web crawlers
  • Indexing Machines: robot based internet search services: A review of current indexing and data collection methods
  • search engines for the internet
  • understanding and comparing web search tools
• Digital Libraries:
  • IEEE Computer; special issue Feb 1999
  • CMU's Digital Library Project
  • Berkeley's Digital Library Project
• Metasearch Systems:
  • The original Metacrawler.
  • Udi Manber's Search Broker
  • Ahoy! The homepage finder.
  • A comparison shopping agent: Excite Shopping Search powered by Jango.
• Information Integration Systems:
  • Cohen's WHIRL Tour.
  • The Information Manifold.
  • Stanford's TSIMMIS project: Information source wrapping and mediation across heterogenous information sources.
  • The IBM Almaden Garlic Information Integration System.
  • ISI's SIMS Information Mediator.
• Agens for Browsing the WWW
  • Letizia -- An Agent That Assists Web Browsing:
    • Letizia: An Agent That Assists Web Browsing
    • Autonomous Interface Agents
  • Syskill and Webert:
    • Syskill and Webert: Identifying Interesting Web Sites
    • Learning from Hotlists and Coldlists: Towards a WWW Information Filtering and Seeking Agent.
  • WebWatcher -- a Tour-Guide for the WWW
    • R. Armstrong, D. Freitag, T. Joachims, and T. M. Mitchell (1995): WebWatcher: A learning apprentice for the World Wide Web
    • Thorsten Joachims (1996): Einsatz eines intelligenten, lernenden Agenten für das World Wide Web.
  • Personal WebWatcher
    • Personal WebWatcher: Implementation and Design
• FAQ Finder
  • Kristian Hammond, Robin Burke, Charles Martin, and Steven Lytinen (1995): FAQ Finder: A Case-Based Approach to Knowledge Navigation
  • Edwin Cooper (1996): Improving FAQfinder's Performance: Setting Parameters by Genetic Programming
• Visualization
  • Borning's paper on Constraints and the Web from the Proceedings of the 1997 ACM Multimedia Conference, pages 173-182.
  • The CMU Sage Project
  • Marti Hearst's course at Berkeley on Information Visualization and Presentation with many useful links.

General Resources:

• Jens Wolff's seminar course on Datamining with many useful links.
• Seminar course Lernende Agenten im WWW at the University of Dortmund
• Essay on Agent Assisted Web-Browsing