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...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
Generic web search is designed to serve all users, independent of the individual needs and without any adaptation to personal requirements. We propose a novel technique1 that perf...
John D. Garofalakis, Theofanis Matsoukas, Yannis P...
Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
This paper proposes a fast AND/OR tree search algorithm using a multiple-paths concurrent search method. Conventional heuristic AND/OR tree search algorithms expand nodes in only ...