Utility based web access pattern mining and knowledge discovery from database has become an interesting research domain in recent time. Traditional pattern mining algorithms deal with only binary occurrence of a web page and do not consider the weight or profit of the web page. Hence, utility-based web path traversal pattern mining technique has evolved and got much interest in recent time. How...

Location­based web searching is one of the popular tasks expected from the search engines. A location­based query consists of a topic and a reference location. Unlike general web search, in location­based search it is expected to find and rank documents which are not only related to the query topic but also geographically related to the location which the query is associated with. There are sev...

Getting informed of what is registered in the Web space on time, can greatly help the psychologists, marketers and political analysts to familiarize, analyse, make decision and act correctly based on the society`s different needs. The great volume of information in the Web space hinders us to continuously online investigate the whole space of the Web. Focusing on the considered blogs limits our...

This paper describes experimental results of WEB Navigational Retrieval Subtask 2 (WEB Navi-2). We made three gram-based indices, namely indices for text in whole page, text in title tag and text in anchor tag. Since gram-based indices are able to index all strings in target text, words that are not found in dictionaries are also indexed essentially. We used words in TITLE tag of search topics ...