The importance of tasks in information retrieval (IR) has been long argued for, addressed in
different ways, often ignored, and frequently revisited. For decades, scholars made a case …

While great strides have been made in the field of search and recommendation, there are
still challenges and opportunities to address information access issues that involve solving …

Given the distinct preferences of different users while using search engines, search
personalization has become an important problem in information retrieval. Most approaches …

The Web today has gone far beyond a tool for simply posting and retrieving information, but
a universal platform to accomplish various kinds of tasks in daily life. However, research and …

Search tasks, comprising a series of search queries serving a common informational need,
have steadily emerged as accurate units for developing the next generation of task-aware …

The need for search often arises from a broad range of complex information needs or tasks
(such as booking travel, buying a house, etc.) which lead to lengthy search processes …

Accurate understanding of a user's interests, preferences and behaviours is possibly one of
the most critical research challenges faced while developing personalized systems for …

One of the main challenging problems in distributed systems is the comparison-based self-
diagnosis which aims at identifying the set faulty of nodes (or units) based on the matching …

Search behavior, and information seeking behavior more generally, is often motivated by
tasks that prompt search processes that are often lengthy, iterative, and intermittent, and are …

Mobile devices have become an increasingly ubiquitous part of our everyday life, which are
not only used for basic communication. Nowadays, the need for mobile services arises from …