Purpose – This paper aims to present an epistemological perspective of how web mining can be performed by human agents, and a technical overview of a possible approach to achieve this. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of visual mining of information is based on the principle of...

"[This book] is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic research on embedding and associating semantics with multimedia information to improve data retrieval techniques. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as automation, knowledge discovery, and social networking, this book...

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There is a large increase in the amount of information available on World Wide Web and also in number of online databases. This information abundance increases the complexity of locating relevant information. Such a complexity drives the need for improved and intelligent systems for search and...

The constant growth of the World Wide Web (WWW) creates a demand for new strategies that are useful for Internet searchers as well as for information suppliers. While relevant and structured results became harder to find by search engines, the importance for businesses to be found on visible...