Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
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While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
Engineering design search and optimisation is a computationally expensive and data intensive process. Grid technology offers great potential to increase the efficiency of this proc...
Jasmin L. Wason, Marc Molinari, Zhuoan Jiao, Simon...
The next wave in search technology will be driven by the identification, extraction, and exploitation of real-world entities represented in unstructured textual sources. Search sy...