Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
As the Internet grows explosively, search engines play a more and more important role for users in effectively accessing online information. Recently, it has been recognized that ...
Ming Ji, Jun Yan, Siyu Gu, Jiawei Han, Xiaofei He,...
We describe a method for improving the precision of metasearch results based upon scoring the visual features of documents' surrogate representations. These surrogate scores ...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
The multi-objective covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (MO-CMA-ES) combines a mutation operator that adapts its search distribution to the underlying optimization prob...