VL
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
To explore how people conceptualize a complex system, 232 university students were asked to sketch how a search engine works. While the sketches reveal a diverse range of visual a...
ISM
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Currently, most search engines are text-based and their structures are centralized. These kinds of engine are sufficient for searching text information in Internet. However, while...
HICSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. This research develops an economic model for comparing search...
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
— We consider the problem of finding the relevant named entities in response to a search query over a given text corpus. Entity search can readily be used to augment conventiona...
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Search engines largely rely on robots (i.e., crawlers or spiders) to collect information from the Web. Such crawling activities can be regulated from the server side by deploying ...
WEBDB
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Search engine quality is impacted by two factors: the quality of the ranking/matching algorithm used and the freshness of the search engine’s index, which maintains a “snapsho...
WEBDB
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to web search personalization based on user collaboration and sharing of information about web documents. The proposed personaliz...
ICWE
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2007
Springer
This paper addresses conceptual modeling and automatic code generation for search engine integration with data intensive Web applications. We have analyzed the similarities (and di...