In granular computing, each object is represented as an information granule and an
information granule can be connected to other granules through semantic relationships …

While the search interfaces used by common academic digital libraries provide easy access
to a wealth of peer‐reviewed literature, their interfaces provide little support for exploratory …

Web search engines have become the dominant tools for finding information on the Internet.
Owing to their popularity, users of all educational backgrounds and professions use them for …

Academic digital library searchers often employ exploratory search strategies when faced
with the complex search task of finding academic literature on a topic that is new to them …

Keywords contain important contextual information about search results within academic
digital library search interfaces. However, such information tends to be underutilized within …

This paper proposes a novel iterative meta-clustering technique that uses clustering results
from one set of objects to dynamically change the representation of another set of objects …

Many of the approaches to image retrieval on the Web have their basis in text retrieval.
However, when searchers are asked to describe their image needs, the resulting query is …

Background: The potential of the World Wide Web ('the Web') as a tool for information
retrieval in higher education is beyond question. Harnessing this potential, however …

One of the fundamental challenges in designing an image retrieval system is choosing a
method by which the images that match a given query are presented to the searcher …

In academic digital libraries, searchers commonly engage in exploratory search when faced
with complex search tasks. An important part of exploratory search is exploratory browsing …