Title: Creating a Web Analysis and Visualization Environment,
Abstract: Due to the rapid growth of the World Wide Web, resource discovery becomes an
increasing problem. As an answer to the demand for information management, a
third generation of World-Wide Web tools will evolve: information gathering and
processing agents. This paper describes WAVE (Web Analysis and Visualization
Environment), a 3D interface for World-Wide Web information visualization and
browsing. It uses the mathematical theory of concept analysis to conceptually
cluster objects, and to create a three-dimensional layout of information nodes.
So-called "conceptual scales" for attributes, such as location, title,
keywords, topic, size, or modification time, provide a formal mechanism that
automatically classifies and categorizes documents, creating a conceptual
information space. A visualization shell serves as an ergonomically sound user
interface for exploring this information space.