Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the internet web page metadata usage behavior in terms of their metadata element co‐occurrences. Metadata are designed to facilitate both web publishers/authors to organize their web pages and search engines to index the web pages accurately....

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the multiple language support features in internet search engines. The diversity of the internet is reflected not only in its users, information formats and information content, but also in the languages used. As more and more information becomes...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate obesity‐related queries from a public health portal (HealthLink) transaction log. Design/methodology/approach – Multidimensional scaling (MDS) was applied to each of five obesity‐related focus keywords and their co‐occurring terms...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find a representative subset from large-scale online reviews for consumers. The subset is significantly small in size, but covers the majority amount of information in the original reviews and contains little redundant information....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper to investigate the effectiveness of selected search features in the major English and Chinese search engines and compare the search engines’ retrieval effectiveness. Design/approach/methodology – The search engines Google, Google China, and Baidu were...

Purpose – Quantitative methods, especially statistical methods, play an increasingly important role in research of library and information science (LIS). For different journals, the uses of statistical methods vary substantially due to different journal scopes and aims. The purpose of this...

In this paper, we modify Duan’s (1995) local risk-neutral valuation relationship (mLRNVR) for the GARCH option-pricing models. In our mLRNVR, the conditional variances under two measures are designed to be different and the variance process is more persistent in the risk-neutral measure than...