Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
The basic idea to defend in this paper is that an adequate perception of the search space, sacrificing most of the precision, can paradoxically accelerate the discovery of the mo...
Many artificial intelligence techniques rely on the notion ate" as an abstraction of the actual state of the nd an "operator" as an abstraction of the actions that ...
The phenomenon of sponsored search advertising is gaining ground as the largest source of revenues for search engines. Firms across different industries have are beginning to adop...
This paper describes an investigation in progress into the searching behaviour of end-users and how it is affected by interface design. The project focused on qualitative data gat...
Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. ...