Guest editorial: soft computing on the web

A. G. López-Herrera, E. Herrera-Viedma
2009 Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications  
This special issue encompasses nine papers devoted to the recent developments in the field of the Soft Computing tools applied on the Web. The issue originated from presentations at the special session "Preference Modelling on the Web" organized by the guest editors at the "8th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control" that was held in Madrid, Spain, 21-24th September 2008. Each paper for the special issue was revised by at least two referees and
more » ... ly nine papers were accepted according to the referees' evaluations. The submissions include two papers about the development of information filtering systems or recommender systems based on soft computing tools. The first paper by De Campos, Fernandez-Luna, Huete and Rueda-Morales, "Using second-hand information in collaborative recommender systems", proposes a novel collaborative recommender system that uses quality second-hand information to develop the recommendation process when no collaborative information is available. In the paper "A flexible multi criteria information filtering model", Bordogna and Pasi present a flexible multicriteria information filtering system that allows choosing several distinct criteria, such as content aboutness, coverage, novelty, trust, timeliness, and combining them by a soft aggregation to define a personalized filter in such a way that different personalization levels are possible. On the other hand, two other papers are related to the discovery of web services. Fenza and Senatore define a system for supporting the user in the discovery of semantic web services, taking into account personal requirements
doi:10.1007/s00500-009-0473-6 fatcat:kjeaoyezxnfbfcvnwy57mm6v5i