Search Engines and Web Navigation for MScAIS

Links

• Course plan
• Student web pages
• MSc in Advanced Information Systems Course Page

Timetable - Autumn Term Thursday Evenings

• 18.00-19.25 : Lecture in Lab 403.
• 19.35-21:00 : Practical in Lab 403.

Course Slides

• How the WWW operates - some history and terminology
• The structure of the web
• Link analysis
• Searching the web
• Navigating the web
• Web usage mining
• Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering
• Web 2.0 and Collective Intelligence
• Two sample exam questions

Labs

• Please submit coursework by email as instructed on the lab sheets, only to the email address stated on the sheet.
• Design and Implement your home page, and learn about search engine optimisation; (mscais search optimisation).
• Syndicating Content on the Web using RSS.
• Web Crawling.
• Link Analysis and Computing PageRank.
• Visualising RSS.

Tutorial Help During Autumn Term at Times:

• Martin O'Shea

Course Text

• An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation,  by M. Levene, published by Pearson Education, September 2005, ISBN 0321306775.

Technology Resources

• W3C HTML home page.
• Javascript
• Introduction to Java

Topic Resources

• Cyber Geography
• Collaborative Filtering
• IEEE Internet Computing
• Information Retrieval  book by C.J. van Rijsbergen
• Managing the Digital Enterprise - Open Courseware
• Scaling, Power Laws, and the Small World Phenomena in Networks Course
• Search Engine Information
• Structure of Information Networks Course
• useit.com: usable information technology
• W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
• Web Search Engines Course
• Web Information Retrieval
• Web Mining
• Web Robots Page

Online Bibliographies

• CiteSeer
• DBLP - Computer Science Bibliography