CI Spider: a tool for competitive intelligence on the Web

[1] R.D. Aaron, Giving away the store? Tell people about your

company on your Web site– but don’t overdo it, Competitive

Intelligence Review 8 (2) (1997) 80– 82.

[2] S. Chakrabarti, M. van der Berg, B. Dom, Focused crawling: a

new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery, Proceedings

of the 8th International World Wide Web Conference

(Toronto, Canada, May 1999).

[3] H. Chen, Y. Chung, M. Ramsey, C.C. Yang, An intelligent

Personal Spider (agent) for dynamic Internet/Intranet searching,

Decision Support Systems 23 (1) (1998) 41–58.

[4] H. Chen, A. Houston, R. Sewell, B. Schatz, Internet browsing

and searching: user evaluations of category map and concept

space techniques, Journal of the American Society for Information

Science, Special Issue on ‘‘AI Techniques for Emerging

Information Systems Applications’’ 49 (7) (1998) 582–

603.

[5] A. Dutka, Competitive Intelligence for the Competitive Edge,

NTC Business Books, Chicago, IL, 1998.

[6] Futures Group, Ostriches & Eagles 1997, The Futures Group

Articles, 1998.

[7] B. Gilad, T. Gilad, The Business Intelligence System, AMACOM,

New York, 1988.

[8] Inktomi WebMap, available at http://www.inktomi.com/webmap/.

[9] R.J. Johnson, A Cognitive Approach to the Representation of

Managerial Competitive Intelligence Knowledge, Doctoral dissertation,

The University of Arizona, 1994.

[10] B.E. Keiser, Practical competitor intelligence, Planning Review

8 (1987) 14– 18.

[11] T. Kohonen, Self-Organizing Maps, Springer-Verlag, Berlin,

1995.

[12] S. Lawrence, C.L. Giles, Accessibility of information on the

Web, Nature 400 (1999) 107–109.

[13] C. Lin, H. Chen, J. Nunamaker, Verifying the proximity and

size hypothesis for self-organizing maps, Journal of Management

Information Systems 16 (3) (1999–2000) 61–73.

[14] P. Maes, Agents that reduce work and information overload,

Communications of the ACM 37 (7) (July 1994) 31– 40.

[15] J.J. McGonagle, C.M. Vella, Outsmarting the Competition,

Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL, 1990.

[16] J.J. McGonagle, C.M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive

Intelligence, Quorum Books, London, 1999.

[17] M. McQuaid, T. Ong, H. Chen, J. Nunamker, Multidimensional

scaling for group memory visualization, Decision Support

Systems 27 (1999) 163– 176.

[18] R. Orwig, H. Chen, J. Nunamaker, A graphical, self-organizing

approach to classifying electronic meeting output, Journal

of the American Society for Information Science 48 (2) (1997)

157– 170.

[19] J.E. Prescott, D.C. Smith, SCIP: who we are, what we do,

Competitive Intelligence Review 2 (1) (1991) 3 – 5.

[20] D. Roussinov, H. Chen, Document clustering for electronic

meetings: an experimental comparison of two techniques, Decision

Support Systems 27 (1999) 67– 69.

[21] G. Salton, Another look at automatic text-retrieval systems,

Communications of the ACM 29 (7) (1986) 648– 656.

[22] Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, http://

www.scip.org/.

[23] H. Sutton, Competitive Intelligence, The Conference Board,

New York, Report 913, 1988.

[24] K.M. Tolle, H. Chen, Comparing noun phrasing techniques

for use with medical digital library tools, Journal of the American

Society for Information Science 51 (4) (Apr. 2000) 352–

370.

[25] K.W. Tyson, Business Intelligence: Putting It All Together,

Leading Edge Publications, Lombard, IL, 1986.

[26] R.G. Vedder, M.T. Vanecek, C.S. Guynes, J.J. Cappel, CEO

and CIO perspectives on competitive intelligence, Communications

of the ACM 42 (8) (Aug. 1999) 109– 116.

[27] E. Voorhees, D. Harman, Overview of the sixth text retrieval

conference (TREC-6), in: E. Voorhees, D. Harman (Eds.),

NIST Special Publication 500-240: The Sixth Text Retrieval

Conference (TREC-6), National Institute of Standards and

Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 1997.

[28] C.C. Yang, J. Yen, H. Chen, Intelligent Internet searching

agent based on hybrid simulated annealing, Decision Support

Systems 28 (2000) 269– 277.

[29] O. Zamir, O. Etzioni, Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface

to Web search Results, Proceedings of the 8th International

World Wide Web Conference (Toronto, Canada, May 1999).