We evaluate server selection methods in a Web environment, modeling a digital library which makes use of existing Web search servers rather than building its own index. The evalua...
This paper proposes an effective approach to provide relevant search terms for conceptual Web search. ‘Semantic Term Suggestion’ function has been included so that users can f...
—The “wisdom of the crowds” is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collec...
In TREC 2003, the Database and Information System Lab (DBIS) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) participate in the robust track, which is a traditional ad hoc retrieval ta...
Social network systems, like last.fm, play a significant role in Web 2.0, containing large amounts of multimedia-enriched data that are enhanced both by explicit user-provided an...
Ioannis Konstas, Vassilios Stathopoulos, Joemon M....