An Evolutionary Approach for User-Oriented Web Search with Mobile Devices

Wei-Po LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E88-D    No.8    pp.1996-2000
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.8.1996
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Contents Technology and Web Information Systems
Keyword: 
semantic Web search,  evolutionary computing,  concept modeling,  mobile device,  

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Summary: 
Wireless Internet technologies have been developing and users are now able to access more information anywhere through small screen mobile devices. However, due to the limits of cost, bandwidth and screen size in a wireless environment, it is important to minimize interactions between a mobile user and his handheld device, as well as the amount of data transmitted. In this paper we present an interactive evolutionary approach for user-oriented Web search by using mobile devices. To verify this approach, a series of experiments has been conducted. The results show that our approach can allocate the information a user needs within only a few user-system interactions. It substantially reduces the number of retrieved pages a user has to visit. This is especially an important benefit to mobile users.

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