The present study seeks to examine the factors affecting information search of heads of households in purchasing an outbound package tour. A sample of 60 academics and non-academics in the field of tourism was chosen. Sampling methods were judgmental and snowball sampling. In order to gather data, we used a semi-structured interview.  Thematic analysis was applied for data analysis, and the col...

in this research work, the impact of user’s behavior on search engine results is discussed. it aims to improvement of search results which leads to the higher satisfaction of users. in other words, we are trying to present a personalized search engine for each user, based on his/her activity and search history. we base our hypothesis that the search history of each user in a specific time frame...

background: knowing the rate of overlapping in results obtained from information retrieval tools is important to prevent waste of time. medical and health-related information has an outstanding place among the variety of information available on the internet. hence, this research aimed to study the rate of overlap among medical search results derived from mesh (medical subject headings) in gene...

Due to the huge amount of data published on the Web, the Web search process has become more difficult, and it is sometimes hard to get the expected results, especially when the users are less certain about their information needs. Several efforts have been proposed to support exploratory search on the web by using query expansion, faceted search, or supplementary information extracted from exte...

In this paper we present an approach to generate document filtered sets using information retrieval techniques. This is presented in the context of external document plagiarism detection, although the techniques detailed in this paper are applicable to any sort of documents or queries. Producing filtered sets, and hence limiting the problem’s search space, can be a tremendous performance improv...