The Autonomous Web

This book initiates a transformation of the Web into a self—managing, autonomous information system to challenge today’s all—embracing role of big search engines as centralized information managers. In the last decades, the World Wide Web became the biggest source for all kinds of information needed. After a short review of the state of the art, a Web—based system is presented for the first time, which employs all its instances equally to provide, consume, and process information uniformly ...