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Knowledge Discovery on the Web
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Knowledge Discovery on the Web

A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2020) | Viewed by 8141

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Giuliano Armano

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: classification and clustering methods; classifier ensembles; hierarchical classification; methods for assessing feature importance; phase transitions in complex networks; social networks dynamics
Dr. Matteo Cristani

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Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, 37129 Verona, Italy
Interests: artificial intelligence; knowledge representation; machine learning; multi-agent systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Following the workshop KDWEB 2019 at ICWE, we propose a Special Issue of Information.

Knowledge discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful, and meaningful patterns from data, and currently is widespread in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Recently, the rapid growth of social networks and online services has entailed that knowledge discovery approaches focus on the World Wide Web (WWW), whose popular use as a global information system has led to a huge amount of digital data.

KDWeb 2019 focused on the field of knowledge discovery from digital data, paying particular attention to data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval methods, systems, and applications. KDWeb 2019 aimed to provide a venue to researchers, scientists, students, and practitioners involved in the fields of knowledge discovery on data mining, information retrieval, and the semantic Web, for presenting and discussing novel and emerging ideas. KDWeb 2019 will contribute to discussing and comparing suitable novel solutions based on intelligent techniques applied in real-world applications.

Topics of Interest

The workshop has been accepting submissions of fresh investigations concerning experimental and applied studies on Web knowledge discovery. Topics include but are not limited to the following:

Big data on the Web;
Deep learning on the Web;
Feature selection and the extraction of Web data;
Hierarchical categorization of Web data;
Linked Web data;
Machine learning applications on the Web;
Open Web data;
Semantic Web;
Semantics and ontology engineering for Web applications;
Social media mining;
Social media measures and applications;
Text categorization on the Web;
Text mining for Web applications;
Web data mining;
Web information filtering and retrieval;
Web personalization and recommendation.

Dr. Giuliano Armano
Dr. Matteo Cristani
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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An Empirical Study of Social Commerce Intention: An Example of China
by Chao-Hsing Lee and Chien-Wen Chen
Information 2020, 11(2), 99; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/info11020099 - 12 Feb 2020
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The rise of social networks is rapidly spreading in China. Using social platforms, individuals are no longer just receivers of Internet information, as consumers generate and share contents with others. Social interaction and spontaneous promotion activities are carried out among consumers, but with [...] Read more.
The rise of social networks is rapidly spreading in China. Using social platforms, individuals are no longer just receivers of Internet information, as consumers generate and share contents with others. Social interaction and spontaneous promotion activities are carried out among consumers, but with the growth of traditional e-commerce slowing down, social commerce derived from social networks is gradually taking shape. Based on Hajli’s theoretical model, this study uses the social support theory and social commerce construct to study consumers’ social commerce behavior from a total of 1277 valid sample questionnaires that were distributed in a social platform environment in China. Through the empirical research evaluation using PLS-SEM, the statistical analysis results prove that social commerce constructs do promote social interaction of consumers. Such constructs have a positive effect on social support and social commerce intentions. In this regard, social support is embodied in information support and emotional support, and has a positive effect on social commerce intention. This study also conducts cross-cultural empirical comparisons. In comparison with Hajli’s research, this study has the same results in evaluation of Chinese samples. Among the users who exhibit social commerce intentions, social commerce construction is more important than social support. Full article
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Analysis of Data Persistence in Collaborative Content Creation Systems: The Wikipedia Case
by Lorenzo Bracciale, Pierpaolo Loreti, Andrea Detti and Nicola Blefari Melazzi
Information 2019, 10(11), 330; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/info10110330 - 25 Oct 2019
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A very common problem in designing caching/prefetching systems, distribution networks, search engines, and web-crawlers is determining how long a given content lasts before being updated, i.e., its update frequency. Indeed, while some content is not frequently updated (e.g., videos), in other cases revisions [...] Read more.
A very common problem in designing caching/prefetching systems, distribution networks, search engines, and web-crawlers is determining how long a given content lasts before being updated, i.e., its update frequency. Indeed, while some content is not frequently updated (e.g., videos), in other cases revisions periodically invalidate contents. In this work, we present an analysis of Wikipedia, currently the 5th most visited website in the world, evaluating the statistics of updates of its pages and their relationship with page view statistics. We discovered that the number of updates of a page follows a lognormal distribution. We provide fitting parameters as well as a goodness of fit analysis, showing the statistical significance of the model to describe the empirical data. We perform an analysis of the views–updates relationship, showing that in a time period of a month, there is a lack of evident correlation between the most updated pages and the most viewed pages. However, observing specific pages, we show that there is a strong correlation between the peaks of views and updates, and we find that in more than 50% of cases, the time difference between the two peaks is less than a week. This reflects the underlying process whereby an event causes both an update and a visit peak that occurs with different time delays. This behavior can pave the way for predictive traffic analysis applications based on content update statistics. Finally, we show how the model can be used to evaluate the performance of an in-network caching scenario. Full article
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