With the exponential growth of information available on the Internet and various
organisational intranets there is a need for profile based information seeking and retrieval …

Due to increase in web-based applications, the need for enhanced information retrieval
system that accommodate user's needs become crucial. A wide range of commercial …

The present book includes extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from
the Third International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering …

The purpose of this paper is to provide practitioners of information exploration of the need for
Business and e-Government Intelligence Systems (BGIS), the role such intelligence plays in …

The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast
number of documents in today's large databases and especially on the World Wide Web …

In this era of information explosion, providing the right information to the right person within
reasonable time duration is a very important goal for today's information retrieval (IR) …

In this paper, an adaptive fuzzy logic-based information retrieval model is presented to
enable users retrieve exact and specific information they sort after. The proposed IR model …

To facilitate searching and navigation, much information has been hierarchically organized
into categories with different levels of generality. However, users still suffer information …

TEXPROS is an intelligent document processing and retrieval system, which supports
storing, extracting, classifying, categorizing, retrieving and browsing enterprise information …

The nature of the task that leads a person to engage in information interaction, as well as of
information seeking and searching tasks, have been shown to influence individuals' …