Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
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...
Abstract. In constraint satisfaction, a general rule is to tackle the hardest part of a search problem first. In this paper, we introduce a parameter (τ) that measures the constr...
Abstract. Content-based image search has long been considered a difficult task. Making correct conjectures on the user intention (perception) based on the query images is a critica...
Abstract. This talk explores aspects relevant for peer-to-peer search infrastructures, which we think are better suited to semantic web search than centralized approaches. It does ...