Using WI Technologies to Develop Intelligent Portals - Research Activities at the WIC Japan Center -

The objective of the WIC Japan Research Centre is to carry out basic research concerning certain aspects of Web Intelligence (WI). Our research activities focus on investigating WI technologies for developing various portals that enable intelligence for e-science, e-business, e-government, and e-learning, as well as deal with the scalability and complexity of real world, efficiently and effectively. We observe that developing intelligent portals is one of the most sophisticated applications, which needs to be supported by WI technologies. Research work that has been carried out can be categorized and described as follows.