A sequence of queries submitted by a database user within a short period of time may have a single, illuminating explanation. In this paper we consider sequences of single-record q...
Acquiring relevant information to keep user’s preferences up-to-date is crucial in recommender systems in order to close the cycle of recommendations. Ambient Intelligence is a s...
Traditional information retrieval (IR) systems respond to user queries with ranked lists of relevant documents. The separation of content and structure in XML documents allows indi...
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the most popular techniques used to rank a web page highly in Google. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the r...