Configuration Model for Focused Crawlers in Technology Intelligence

To operate technology intelligence efficiently access to up-to-date relevant and sufficiently complete information is essential. Indeed availability of information is higher than ever by reason of digitalization. However it also causes the problem of information overload. The available mass of data has to be searched assorted and assessed to identify the actual needed information. In addition the entire information processing has to be continued permanently or to be repeated for each new object of investigation otherwise the validity of the results is not given any more.