As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Researchers investigating personalization techniques for Web Information Retrieval face a challenge; that the data required to perform evaluations, namely query logs and clickthro...
In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...