In this paper we present a new evolutionary method for complex-process optimization. It is partially based on principles of the scatter search methodology, but it makes use of inn...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...
Keyword-based search in relational databases allows users to discover relevant information without knowing the database schema or using complicated queries. However, such searches...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...