Web Intelligence - Hardcover

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Prof. Jiming Liu has been Chair Professor in Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2010, where he also directs Centre for Health Informatics, as well as Joint Research Laboratory for Intelligent Disease Surveillance and Control (a research partnership with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention).  He received his MEng and PhD in Electrical Engineering (Robotics) from McGill University, after earning a BSc in Physics from East China Normal University and an interdisciplinary Master of Arts from Concordia University.  He has been a Fellow of the IEEE since 2011.  Prof. Liu's research interests include AI for Social Good, Machine Learning, Complex Systems, Data-Driven Modeling, Complex Networks, Web Intelligence (WI), and Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) Paradigms.  He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence Journal, and Associate Editor of Big Data and Information Analytics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and Computational Intelligence, among a dozen of others.Dr. Shang Xia is currently an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (NIPD, China CDC), which is also recognized as the Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research (CTDR), and WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases. He also works as a member of Joint Research Laboratory for Intelligent Disease Surveillance and Control (a research partnership with Hong Kong Baptist University). He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in Hong Kong, having obtained MEng and BEng degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China. He has completed his Postdoctoral Research Program in the Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (China CDC) in Beijing, China. He is the committee member of International Society of Geospatial Health (GnosisGIS). He has served as the section editors of BMC Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP), and Climate Change Research (in Chinese).

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Web Intelligence is a new direction for scientific research and development that explores the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of artificial intelligence and advanced information technology for the next generation of Web-empowered systems, services, and environments. Web Intelligence is regarded as the key research field for the development of the Wisdom Web (including the Semantic Web).

As the first book devoted to Web Intelligence, this coherently written multi-author monograph provides a thorough introduction and a systematic overview of this new field. It presents both the current state of research and development as well as application aspects. The book will be a valuable and lasting source of reference for researchers and developers interested in Web Intelligence. Students and developers will additionally appreciate the numerous illustrations and examples.