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The web from a complex adaptive systems perspective

Authors: 
Maya Rupert
Salima Hassas
Amjad Rattrout
Conference: 
20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Proceeding Volume: 
1
Location: 
Vienna, Austria
Volume: 
74
Issue: 
2
Pages From: 
133
To: 
145
Date: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Keywords: 
WebComplex adaptive systemsMulti-agent systemsWeb content organization
Abstract: 
The Web continues to grow at a phenomenal rate and the amount of information on the Web is overwhelming. Finding the relevant information remains a big challenge. Due to its wide distribution, its openness and high dynamics, the WWW is a complex system, for which we have to imagine mechanisms of content maintaining, filtering and organizing that are able to deal with its evolving, dynamics and distribution. Integrating mechanisms of self-organization of the Web content is an attractive perspective, to match with these requirements. This paper explores the Web from a complex adaptive system (CAS) perspective. It reviews some characteristic behaviours of CAS and shows how the Web exhibits similar behaviours. We illustrate with a model for Web content organization adopting the CAS vision and using the multi-agent paradigm.