World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) and Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC): What, When, and How? (Invited Talk)
Jiming Liu · 2005
The World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) (or Wisdom Web) and Autonomy Oriented Computing (AOC) were proposed and advocated by Liu et al. and have been recognized, in the fields of WWW, AI, and AAMAS, as promising directions of research in problems that are heavily dominated by large scale, distribution, connectivity, interactivity, and redundancy [1,7,8,2,4]. Generally speaking, W4 encompasses the systems, environments, and activities (1) that are empowered through the global or regional connectivity of computing resources as well as distribution of data, knowledge, and contextual presence, and (2) that are specifically dedicated to enable human beings to gain practical wisdoms of working, living, and playing throughout their professional and personal activities, such as running a business and living with a certain lifestyle. W4 will become the next generation Web Intelligence (WI), providing not only a medium for seamless knowledge and experience sharing but also a supply of self-organized resources for driving sustainable knowledge creation and scientific or social development/evolution. The present challenges of W4 lie primarily in: