The user observed latency of retrieving Web documents is one of
limiting factors while using the Internet as an information data source.
Prefetching became important technique ...
Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
Search logs, which contain rich and up-to-date information about users' needs and preferences, have become a critical data source for search engines. Recently, more and more ...
Groups of users often have shared information needs – for example, business colleagues need to conduct research relating to joint projects and students must work together on gro...
Meredith Ringel Morris, Jarrod Lombardo, Daniel Wi...
: A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines m...