SOMSE: A semantic map based meta-search engine for the purpose of web information customization

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1310-1321

  Hamdi, Mohamed Salah ^a  

^a Department of Information Systems ^*  (Qatar)

Author keywords

Information Customization; Information overload; Kohonen Feature Map; Machine learning; Meta search engine; Neural network; Parameter tuning; Self organizing map; Semantic Map

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION CUSTOMIZATION; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; KOHONEN; MACHINE-LEARNING; META SEARCH ENGINES; PARAMETER-TUNING; SEMANTIC MAP;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ENGINES; INFORMATION SERVICES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; TUNING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77957889972     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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