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WEBI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
The Effects of Query Bursts on Web Search
A query burst is a period of heightened interest of users on a topic which yields a higher frequency of the search queries related to it. In this paper we examine the behavior of s...
Ilija Subasic, Carlos Castillo
ECML
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Optimising Performance of Competing Search Engines in Heterogeneous Web Environments
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
ICCBR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Case-Based Perspective on Social Web Search
Web search is the main way for millions of users to access information every day, but we continue to struggle when it comes to finding the right information at the right time. In ...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
User-centric content freshness metrics for search engines
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
Ali Dasdan, Xinh Huynh