We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...
Route planners request user input about preferred route characteristics in order to provide the user with the optimal route. Although navigators have a general idea about what con...
One of the reasons that search performance of peerto-peer file-sharing systems is poor is that results are poorly described, hurting the client’s ability to rank them. This is a...