Web intelligence for business coalition operations

E-business requires cooperation and open standard-based information/knowledge exchange between all the participants of global business information environment (e-business environment) in real-time. Scientific direction of knowledge logistics addresses this problem. This direction is closely related with a new direction for research and development in artificial intelligence and information technology areas "Web intelligence". The paper describes an approach addressing the knowledge logistics problem in regard to Web intelligence. The paper discusses main principles underlying the approach, describes the system KSNet (knowledge source network) based on the approach, and presents an application of the approach to a case study inspired by a coalition-based Binni scenario.