Since the proposition of Journal Impact Factor [1] in 1963, the classical citation-based ranking scheme has been a standard criterion to rank journals and conferences. However, the...
Zhixu Li, Xiaoyong Du, Hongyan Liu, Jun He, Xiaofa...
Clickthrough rate and cost-per-click are known to be among the factors that impact the rank of an ad shown on a search result page. Hence, search engines can benefit from estimat...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
Shopping on the Internet has become a convenient way of purchasing commodities of choice. A key contribution of agent technology will be to develop personal agents that can assist...
Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...