An exploration of risk information search via a search engine: Queries and clicks in healthcare and information security

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 395-405

  Wang, Jingguo ^a   Xiao, Nan ^b   Rao, H Raghav ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation; Query click rate; Search engine; Search log; Session length

Indexed keywords

CLICK RATES; INFORMATION FORAGING; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SEARCH LOG; SESSION LENGTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH CARE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PUBLIC RISKS; SECURITY OF DATA;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 82255162587     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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