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The Web's awake : an introduction to the field of Web science and the concept of Web life / Philip D. Tetlow.

By: Tetlow, Philip [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | John Wiley & Sons [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Hoboken, New Jersey ; IEEE Press/Wiley-Interscience, c2007Description: 1 PDF (xxi, 239 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470145876.Other title: Introduction to the field of Web science and the concept of Web life | Field of Web science and the concept of Web life.Subject(s): World Wide Web | Bibliographies | Bifurcation | Biographies | Biological system modeling | Books | Chemicals | Cities and towns | Color | Companies | Complexity theory | Computational modeling | Computer architecture | Computers | Context | Correlation | DNA | Economics | Equations | Evolution (biology) | Glass | Heart | History | Humans | Hydrocarbons | Indexes | Information technology | Instruction sets | Internet | Joining processes | Keyboards | Lasers | Layout | Magnetic fields | Magnetization | Maintenance engineering | Materials | Mathematical model | Meteorology | Natural languages | Neurons | Numerical models | OWL | Object oriented modeling | Open systems | Organisms | Organizations | Phase measurement | Programming | Proteins | Quantum computing | Quantum mechanics | RNA | Radiation detectors | Relays | Resource description framework | Semantic Web | Semantics | Set theory | Software | Software engineering | Steady-state | Switches | Transforms | Transistors | Turing machines | Unified modeling language | XMLGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 004.678 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
The Web and life -- The spectrum of complexity -- The importance of discreteness and symmetry in systems -- Natural structures for man-made machines-curvature in information and computation -- Positional information and scale-free networks -- Evolution through engineering -- A less-than-simple matter of boundless organics -- Emergent intelligence and posthuman concepts -- The physics of information and computing -- Counter arguments -- Objective opinions -- Appendix A: An outline of the semantic Web and its potential for software engineering -- Appendix B: Beyond the semantic Web.
Summary: The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to control it directly. Many have worked on the concept of emergent properties within highly complex systems, concentrating heavily on the underlying mechanics concerned. Few, however, have studied the fundamentals involved from a sociotechnical perspective. In short, the virtual anatomy of the Web remains relatively uninvestigated. The Web's Awake attempts to seriously explore this gap, citing a number of provocative, yet objective, similarities from studies relating to both real world and digital systems. It presents a collage of interlinked facts, assertions, and coincidences, which boldly point to a Web with powerful potential for life.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index.

The Web and life -- The spectrum of complexity -- The importance of discreteness and symmetry in systems -- Natural structures for man-made machines-curvature in information and computation -- Positional information and scale-free networks -- Evolution through engineering -- A less-than-simple matter of boundless organics -- Emergent intelligence and posthuman concepts -- The physics of information and computing -- Counter arguments -- Objective opinions -- Appendix A: An outline of the semantic Web and its potential for software engineering -- Appendix B: Beyond the semantic Web.

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The central thesis of The Web's Awake is that the phenomenal growth and complexity of the web is beginning to outstrip our capability to control it directly. Many have worked on the concept of emergent properties within highly complex systems, concentrating heavily on the underlying mechanics concerned. Few, however, have studied the fundamentals involved from a sociotechnical perspective. In short, the virtual anatomy of the Web remains relatively uninvestigated. The Web's Awake attempts to seriously explore this gap, citing a number of provocative, yet objective, similarities from studies relating to both real world and digital systems. It presents a collage of interlinked facts, assertions, and coincidences, which boldly point to a Web with powerful potential for life.

Also available in print.

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