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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Is XML retrieval meaningful to users?: searcher preferences for full documents vs. elements
The aim of this study is to investigate whether element retrieval (as opposed to full-text retrieval) is meaningful and useful for searchers when carrying out information-seeking ...
Birger Larsen, Anastasios Tombros, Saadia Malik
PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied w...
David Sarne, Efrat Manisterski, Sarit Kraus
CORR
2011
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Cooperative searching for stochastic targets
Spatial search problems abound in the real world, from locating hidden nuclear or chemical sources to finding skiers after an avalanche. We exemplify the formalism and solution fo...
Vadas Gintautas, Aric A. Hagberg, Luís M. A...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose