Abstract. This paper provides an overview of Prospector, a personalized Internet meta-search engine, which utilizes a combination of ontological information, ratings-based models o...
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
It is widely assumed and observed in experiments that the use of diversity mechanisms in evolutionary algorithms may have a great impact on its running time. Up to now there is no...
The rapid development of web image search engines has enabled users to search hundred million of images available on the Web. However, due to the unsatisfactory performance of cur...