Search engines acts as an intermediate between the user and web. It takes the user query as input and retrieves the pages based on query terms from its database, which is in advance populated from World Wide Web. It then applies some ranking algorithm to sort the retrieved pages and presents the...

The developed society depends on many critical infrastructure processes, such as power generation, water treatment, many types of manufacturing, and smart buildings. These processes need control and the automation industry has embraced the Internet to connect all these controls. However, the...

Previous studies have shown the usefulness of ontologies in the creation, consolidation, distribution and combination of new knowledge in the field of educational innovation to obtain a continuous flow of knowledge between individuals and organizations. In this paper, some phases of Nonaka's...

Commercial control of the world's published literature has grown to the point where costs are prohibitive for developing nations. This article describes a computer engineer's response to this problem. The result is a publicly-accessible meta-search engine that focuses on open-access sources....

Users of Web search engines are generally confronted to numerous responses that are rarely structured, making it difficult to analyze the available results. Indeed, the linear results displayed through lists ordered according to a relevance criterion, although still widely used, seem often...

The users that used search engines are obligated to express their goals in few words (queries). Sometimes search queries are ambiguous. Moreover, the users' intents are dynamically evolving. This paper analyzes the user's query logs to classify the related queries, the related intent topic...

With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web comes the need for a fast and accurate way to reach the information required. Search engines play an important role in retrieving the required information for users. Ranking algorithms are an important step in search engines so that the user could...

Search Engines use indexing techniques to minimize the time taken to find the relevant information to a search query. They maintain a keywords list that may reside either in the memory or in the external storage, like a hard disk. While a pure binary search can be used for this purpose, it...

This article reviews the literature in the search for the theories and perspectives of knowledge discovery and data visualization. The literature review highlights the overview of knowledge discovery; Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD); Knowledge Discovery in Textual Databases (KDT); the...

This article describes how cloud applications are negotiated, deployed, monitored, evaluated and terminated through the service level agreements (SLA). The service definition & their objectives, performance measures, pricing, roles of the involved parties are stated as part of the SLA. Searching...