Business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (EGSEE) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. More than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various EGSEE di...

In this paper we examine the role of explanations as a means of facilitating the use of relevance feedback in information retrieval systems. We do this with particular reference to previous experimental work. This demonstrates that explanations can increase the user’s willingness to interact more fully with the system. We outline the general conclusions from this experimental work and discuss t...

Complex similarity queries, i.e., multi-feature multi-object queries, are needed to express the information need of a user against a large multimedia repository. Even if a user initially issues a single-object query over one feature, a system with relevance feedback will automatically generate a complex similarity query. Relevance feedback is only useful if response times are interactive. There...

We present results of a study in which 50 searchers, of varying degrees of experience in information retrieval (IR), each performed searches on two TREC4 adhoc interactive track topics, using a simple interface to the INQUERY retrieval engine. The foci of our study were: the relationships between the users' models and experience of IR, and their performance in the TREC-4 adhoc task while using ...

metasearch engine developed to explore the query of large, distributed, online visual information systems. The current implementation integrates user feedback into a performance-ranking mechanism.

Traditionally information retrieval (IR) research has focussed on a single user interaction modality, where a user searches to satisfy an information need. Recent advances in both web technologies, such as the sociable web of Web 2.0, and computer hardware, such as tabletop interface devices, have enabled multiple users to collaborate on many computer-related tasks. Due to these advances there ...

Middle East countries have begun to implement economic reforms to stimulate private investment, promote economic growth and support the transition to market economy. Although, it is difficult to define the direct impact of the accounting system reform on economic transformation, as there are many other conditions that have influence on the transition process. However, with the central position ...

Web information is too heterogeneous that users have difficulties to retrieve their needed information: text, image orvideo. In this context, the collaborative work presents one solution proposed to solve this problem. Collaborative retrieval enables the retrieval histories’ sharing between users having the same profile across multiple tools such as annotations. We propose in this paper to impr...

Nine teams participated in the TREC-2002 cross-language information retrieval track, which focused on retrieving Arabic language documents based on 50 topics that were originally prepared in English. Arabic translations of the topic descriptions were also made available to facilitate monolingual Arabic runs. This was the second year in which a large Arabic document collection was available. Thr...

Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is relevance. In this paper we argue that spatial relevance should be considered independently from thematic relevance, and propose an initial scheme. A pilot study to assess this relevance scheme is presented, with initial ...