List question answering (QA) offers a unique challenge in effectively and efficiently locating a complete set of distinct answers from huge corpora or the Web. In TREC-12, the med...
Agents can personalize otherwise impersonal computational systems. The World Wide Web presents the same appearance to every user regardless of that user’s past activity. Web Bro...
In this paper, we provide an analysis of the impacts of some reputation parameters that an agent-based Web service holds while being active in the environment. To this end, we depl...
Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
Web users are always distracted by a large number of results returned from search engines. Clustering can efficiently facilitate users’ browsing pages of certain topic. However...