If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Search engine technology plays an important role in Web information retrieval. However, with Internet information explosion, traditional searching techniques cannot provide satisfa...
Baile Shi, Guoyu Hao, Hongtao Xu, Mei Wang, Qi Zha...
In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
Most product search engines today build on models of relevance devised for information retrieval. However, the decision mechanism that underlies the process of buying a product is...
As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...