Web Intelligence and Chance Discovery

Web Intelligence deals with the scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of soft computing and advanced intelligent paradigms for the next generation of Web-based systems, services, and environments. Chance discovery means discovering chances — the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining the significance of some piece of information about an event and then using this new knowledge in decision making. The techniques developed combine data mining methods for finding rare but important events with knowledge management, groupware, and social psychology. Soft computing has evolved not only from a theoretical point of view but also with a large variety of realistic applications related to the Internet, business intelligence, consumer products and industrial systems. Applications of soft computinghaveprovided theopportunity to integrate human-like vagueness and real-life uncertainty into an otherwise hard computer programs. The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science andTechnology