New Search Paradigms
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2012) | Viewed by 202
Special Issue Editor
Interests: intelligent access to information; dynamic taxonomies and faceted search; e-commerce; multimedia retrieval; e-hrm; e-government; medical diagnosis; guided data mining; information retrieval; human-computer interaction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The enormous amount of data available online has made search tasks so pervasive that they represent a significant part of online user activities. At the same time, traditional paradigms such as the focalized query-answer search of traditional search engines, hypermedia and simple taxonomic access have proved inadequate to effectively support exploratory search, which is by far the most frequent search task. Exploratory search occurs in very diverse situations and domains where a simple answer is not sufficient because the result size is too large, or the query cannot be precisely framed, or the result really depends on different weighting factors as, for instance, in product selection in e-commerce. In all these situations, users need system assistance in quickly locating important information, in filtering irrelevant information, and in getting suggestions that improve the quality of the search task. This requires models that are effective but also easily understandable. In addition, usability and human factors play a very important role both in interaction and visualization. Dynamic taxonomies and faceted search are one of the most successful approaches to exploratory search, but by no means the only one.
This special issue of Future Internet focuses on all aspects of new exploratory search paradigms that can guide, simplify or expand user searches, including but not limited to:
- Dynamic taxonomies and faceted search
- Suggestions for search engine queries
- Clustering of search engine results
- Tag systems access and exploration
- Visualization and interactive exploration of results
- Integration of conceptual or geographic contextual information
- Integration of different exploratory strategies
- Evaluation of exploratory strategies
- Applications such as e-commerce, social networks, multimedia, e-government, e-hrm, etc.
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Maria Sacco
Guest Editor
Keywords
- exploratory search
- dynamic taxonomies and faceted search
- tags
- conceptual query result clustering
- suggestion of query terms
- visualization
- interactive exploration
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