Web mining and Content Delivery

The vast amounts of poorly structured information on the Web, together with usage data gathered in Web logs, raise a host of challenging mining problems such as web resource discovery and topic distillation; web structure/linkage mining; intelligent web searching and crawling; personalization of web content. It is needed to develop theory, techniques and systems for web knowledge discovery and delivery, by: [LIST] [*]devising a [b]Web Data Management System[/b], which supports persistency and efficient access methods to Web content and Web usage data; [*]devising [b]Web Data Mining and Text Mining algorithms[/b] capable to deal with unstructured and semi-structured data, including XML data; [*]devising [b]intelligent search methods and services[/b], which enable enhanced access to information on the basis of a combined analysis of crawled content and usage patterns of some virtual communities. [/LIST]