To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
A form-based query interface is usually the preferred means to provide an unsophisticated user access to a database. Not only is such an interface easy to use, requiring no techni...
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...