Applications of Soft Computing for the Web, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

This book discusses the applications of different soft computing techniques for the web-based systems and services. The respective chapters highlight recent developments in the field of soft computing applications, from web-based information retrieval to online marketing and online healthcare. In each chapter author endeavor to explain the basic ideas behind the proposed applications in an accessible format for readers who may not possess a background in these fields.

This carefully edited book covers a wide range of new applications of soft computing techniques in Web recommender systems, Online documents classification, Online documents summarization, Online document clustering, Online market intelligence, Web usage profiling, Web data extraction, Social network extraction, Question answering systems, Online health care, Web knowledge management, Multimedia information retrieval, Navigation guides, User profiles extraction, Web-based distributed information systems,  Web security applications, Internet of Things Applications and so on.

The book is aimed for researchers and practitioner who are engaged in developing and applying intelligent systems principles for solving real-life problems. Further, it has been structured so that each chapter can be read independently of the others.

Section 1. Soft Computing based Recommender Systems.- Section 2. Soft Computing based Online Documents Summarization.- Section 3. Soft Computing based Web Data Extraction.- Section 4. Soft Computing based Question Answering Systems.- Section 5. Soft Computing based Online Health Care Systems.- Section 6. Soft Computing based Online Documents Clustering.- Section 7. Soft Computing based Web Security Applications.- Section 8. Soft Computing based Online Market Intelligence.- Section 9. Soft Computing based Internet of Things Applications.- Section 10. Other Emerging Soft Computing Techniques and Applications.