In this paper we consider the competition on the Internet between information providers to maximise their exposure to a relevant audience. Spammers and Search engine gamers adopt a...
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
This study investigated a relatively unexamined query type, queries composed of URLs. The extent, variation and user click-through behavior was examined to determine the intent be...
Fads models were introduced by Shiller (1984) and Summers (1986) as plausible alternatives to the efficient markets/constant expected returns assumptions. Under these models, loga...
This paper advocated the use of ontology-supported website models to provide a semantic level solution for an information agent so that it can provide fast, precise, and stable que...