Methods for Web link analysis and authority ranking such as PageRank are based on the assumption that a user endorses a Web page when creating a hyperlink to this page. There is a...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is known yet about its appropriateness for search i...
This paper presents an overview of our framework for searching and retrieving facts and relationships within natural language text sources. In this framework, an extraction task o...
In this paper we investigate how people use online rating information to inform decision making. We examine whether a theory of searching for information to discriminate between a...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...