As a field of study that investigate on the Artificial and Human Intelligence on the Web, the emergence of the field “Web Intelligence” attract more attention after some major publications and conferences. Here I list some of them as some introductory papers for beginners in this field.

¹ Zhong, N., Liu, J, Yao, Y. “In Search of the Wisdom Web”, in special issue on Web Intelligence (WI), IEEE Computer, Vol. 35, No. 11 (November 2002) 27-31.

² Liu, J. “Web Intelligence (WI): What Makes Wisdom Web?”, in Proc. of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), (2003) 1596-1602.

³ Ning Zhong, Jiming Liu, Yiyu Yao: Envisioning intelligent information technologies through the prism of web intelligence. Commun. ACM 50(3): 89-94 (2007)

⁴ Yao, Y.Y., Web intelligence: new frontiers of exploration, Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2005), Tarumi, H., Li, Y. and Yoshida, T. (Eds.), Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, May 19-21, 2005, pp. 3-8.

More papers related to this area could be found through Web Intelligence conference series and The “Web Intelligence and Agent System” journal.
http://wi-consortium.org/html/confer.html
http://wi-consortium.org/html/journal.php

In the year 2007, I wrote one paper titled “Knowledge Retrieval (KR)” for this conference with other 3 coauthors, but I did not get a chance to present it. This year, I finally get a chance to attend the “2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence”. I am very looking forward to it.