Web applications facilitated by technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, and Flash use a considerable amount of dynamic web content that is either inaccessible or unusable by...
Yevgen Borodin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Rohit Raman, I....
Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, le...
In this paper we propose a web search methodology based on the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm, which aims to enhance the amount of the relevant information in respect to a...
Georgios Kouzas, Vassilis Kolias, Ioannis Anagnost...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Starting from some simple observations on a popular selection method in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)--tournament selection--we highlight a previously-unknown source of inefficien...