The Web and Complex Adaptive Systems

  • Authors:
  • Maya Rupert;Salima Hassas;Amjad Rattrout

  • Affiliations:
  • University, Canada;LIRIS-Claude Bernard University, Lyon1 France;LIRIS-Claude Bernard University, Lyon1 France

  • Venue:
  • AINA '06 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2006

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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.