When a user is served with a ranked list of relevant documents by the standard document search engines, his search task is usually not over. He has to go through the entire docume...
Personalized search has gained great popularity to improve search effectiveness in recent years. The objective of personalized search is to provide users with information tailored ...
Syntactic information potentially plays a much more important role in question answering than it does in information retrieval. Although many people have used syntactic evidence i...
Real-time search methods are suited for tasks in which the agent is interacting with an initially unknown environment in real time. In such simultaneous planning and learning prob...
In an open environment populated by large numbers of services, automated service composition is a major challenge. In such a setting the efficient interaction of directory-based s...