Based on the Proximate Optimality Principle in metaheuristics, a Population Based Guided Local Search (PGLS) framework for dealing with difficult combinatorial optimization problem...
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. ...
State-of-the-art Web search engines are inherently limited in their abilities to search information in Deep Web beyond portals. This paper discusses how Web services and Semantic-...
In the last years the user information seeking process on the Web has shifted from document search to object search. Hence, the answers provided by Web search engines cannot consis...
We query Web Image search engines with words (e.g., spring) but need images that correspond to particular senses of the word (e.g., flexible coil). Querying with polysemous words ...