Detecting Conflict-Of-Interest on the Semantic Web

CexpTretical writes "At the 15th International WWW Conference in Edinburgh Scotland, Refereed Track on Semantic Web accepted many thorough and interesting academic papers on semantic web research on subjects related to where the Web is in the Semantic Web? One such paper nominated for Best Paper Award, Semantic Analytics on Social Networks: Experiences in Addressing the Problem of Conflict of Interest Detection hits on the whole subject of validation and/or verification in the brave world of so called "Web 3.0" topologies/frameworks/architectures. The paper describes a "Semantic Web application that detects Conflict of Interest (COI) relationships"."

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I'd like to see this applied to politicians and

[zappepcs]

their campaign contributions, former colleagues etc.
That would make for an interesting web application and an interesting election year...

Re:Conflict of interest: Nobody is interested

[Anonymous Coward]

They've done a good job shutting pricegrabber and froogle down, haven't they? No, wait ...

Seriously, some people do want their data to be available, and if that makes them more competitive, why not?