There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Many testing and analysis techniques use finite state models to validate and verify the quality of software systems. Since the specification of such models is complex and timecons...
We consider the problem of dust: Different URLs with Similar Text. Such duplicate URLs are prevalent in web sites, as web server software often uses aliases and redirections, and...