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CT: The WWW has become one of the most important media for sharing information. Web information provides another emerging and important avenue and source of competitive intelligence (CI) for companies. CI is critical for companies to stay competitive in the marketplace. Apart from business users, there are other types of CI users such as technical users, casual users, news awareness users and others who would like to be kept informed on the latest development of their interested areas over the WWW. To discover web information, CI users need to constantly monitor certain web sites and web pages for related information. However, the dynamic nature of the web has made such monitoring task complicated and time-consuming. This paper proposes a web monitoring system, WebMon, to help users monitor specified web pages for latest changes and updates in information. Four monitoring functions including date monitoring, keywords monitoring, link monitoring and portion monitoring are supported by the system. The performance of these monitoring functions is also evaluated.

S: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/019697202753551620#.VJl7CEAtSA (last access: 23 December 2014)

N: 1. From verb to monitor, 1818, “to guide;” 1924, “to check for quality” (originally especially of radio signals), from monitor (n.). General sense from 1944. Related: Monitored; monitoring.
2. According to the Swedish standard SS-EN 13306 (49), monitoring can be defined as an activity performed either manually or automatically that is intended to observe the actual state of an item.
The key function of a successful CMS should be to provide a reliable indication of the presence of a fault within the WECS and to indicate the location and severity of the situation.

S: 1. OED. 2. file:///Users/Fer/Downloads/energies-07-02595-v2.pdf (last access: 23 December 2014).

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CR: automatic control engineering, computer science, cybernetics, energy, robotics.