Communities, Collaboration and Cooperation in Personalized Web Search∗

Communities, Collaboration, and Recommender Systems in Personalized Web Search

Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks

As a result of the anonymity in todays Web search, it is not possible to receive a personalized search result. Neither prior search results nor search results from other users are taken into consideration. In order to resolve this anonymity towards the search engine, a system is created which locally stores the search results in the scope of a peerto-peer network. Using the Peer Search Memory (...

Collaborative Web Search Based on User Interest Similarity

The motivation behind personal information agents resides in the enormous amount of information available on the Web, which has created a pressing need for effective personalized techniques. In order to assists Web search these agents rely on user profiles modeling information preferences, interests and habits that help to contextualize user queries. In communities of people with similar intere...

Web Search Query Privacy, an End-User Perspective

While search engines have become vital tools for searching information on the Internet, privacy issues remain a growing concern due to the technological abilities of search engines to retain user search logs. Although such capabilities might provide enhanced personalized search results, the confidentiality of user intent remains uncertain. Even with web search query obfuscation techniques, anot...

Un système de recherche d'information personnalisée basé sur la modélisation multidimensionnelle de l'utilisateur. (Personalized Information retrieval system based on multidimensional user modeling)

The web explosion has led Information Retrieval (IR) to be extended and web search engines emergence. The conventional IR methods, usually intended for simple textual searches, faced new documents types and rich and scalable contents. The user, facing these evolutions, asks more for IR systems search results quality. In this context, the personalization main objective is improving results retur...