Much progress has recently been made in assisting a user in the search process, be it Web search where the big search engines have now all incorporated more interactive features or...
Online social sharing sites are becoming very popular nowadays among Web users, who use these sites to share their favourite items and to discover interesting and useful items fro...
Web search engines help users find useful information on the WWW. However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the same result regar...
Recommendation systems are becoming increasingly popular in various large-scale web-based applications (such as infomediaries, emarketplaces, knowledge portals) since they enable u...
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...