WINACS (Web-based Information Network Analysis for Computer Science) is a project that incorporates many recent, exciting devel- opments in data sciences to construct a Web-based computer sci- ence information network and to discover, retrieve, rank, cluster, and analyze such an information network. With the rapid devel- opment of the Web, huge amounts of information are available in the form of Web documents, structures, and links. It has been a dream of the database and Web communities to harvest such information and reconcile the unstructured nature of the Web with the neat, semi-structured schemas of the database paradigm.
Taking computer science as a dedicated domain, WINACS first discovers related Web entity structures, and then constructs a het- erogeneous computer science information network in order to rank, cluster and analyze this network and support intelligent and analytical queries.