SEMINAR ON
EXPLORATORT SEARCH
Submitted by
SOJA SALIM
In partial fulfillment of requirements of the award of
Master of Technology (MTech)
In
Software Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
COCHIN682022
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Seminar Report On
COCHIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
COCHIN682022
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Many Universities and colleges provide facilites for searching their own WWW sites using a variety of different technologies and software packages. All these facilities have WWW interfaces. The project is to develop a meta search engine that will accept user requests, generate suitbaly formatted requests to the various engines, gather up the results and present them to the user in a consistent fashion ....etc

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The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of information available via the web has made web search a time consuming and complex process. Index-based search engines, such as AltaVista, Google or Infoseek help, but they are not enough. This paper describes the rationale, architecture, and implementation of a next generation information gathering system “ a system that integrates several areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research under a single umbrella. Our solution to the information explosion i ....etc

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Computers are beginning to replace photographic archives as the preferred form of repository. Computer based images repositories provides a flexible that cannot be attained with collection of printed images. Recently there has been as explosion in the number of images available to computer users. As this number increases, users require more sophisticated methods of retrieval. The area of content-based image retrieval is a hybrid research area that requires knowledge of both computer vision and of database systems. Large image databases are bein ....etc

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Meeting the customer requirements has always been the driving principle in product development. Now, more than ever, customers are demanding individually tailored options. Manufacturers that satisfy these demands of customization quickly and at the appropriate price will remain globally competitive. This poses a serious challenge however. In current industry practice, a rise in product customization requests means increased product complexity, variety, inventory costs, additional outsourcing, and information overload. Industry survey has shown ....etc

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Development of a Repository and Search Engine for Alumni of College (RASE)

This project is aimed at developing a repository for the alumni of the college, which is of importance to a college. The Repository and Search Engine (RASE) is an Internet based application that can be accessed throughout the World. Any one can access the search Engine to know about any Alumni of that college but canâ„¢t able to add. Alumni can only update the database when the ....etc

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It is a common experience while web searching that one gets to see pages that are not of interest. Partly these are due to a word or words in the search query having different contexts, the user obviously expecting to find pages related to the context of interest. This paper proposes a method for disambiguating contexts in web search results.

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Definition

THE PRINCIPLE OF SEARCH

DRAKE EQUATION
N = R * x f p x n e x f l x f i x f c x L
The terms in the equation can be explained as follows
o N - Number of communicative civilizations
o R* - Average rate of formation of stars over the lifetime of the galaxy (10 to 40 per year)
o fp - Fraction of those stars with planets (0 < fp <1, estimated at 0.5 or 50 percent)
o ne - Average number of earth-type planets per planetary system (0 < ne <1, estimated at 0.5 or 50 percent)
o fl - Fraction of those planets where life develops ....etc

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Search Engine

This project is aimed at developing an Search Engine that is of importance to either an organisation or a college. This Intranet based stand-alone application can be accessed through a web browser or e-mail. This application gives the search results for the keyword . ....etc

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The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of information available via the web has made web search a time consuming and complex process. Index-based search engines, such as AltaVista, Google or Infoseek help, but they are not enough. This paper describes the rationale, architecture, and implementation of a next generation information gathering system “ a system that integrates several areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research under a single umbrella. Our solution to the information explosion ....etc

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