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In this paper we review studies of the growth of the Internet and technologies that are useful for information search and retrieval on the Web. Search engines are retrieve the efficient information. We collected data on the Internet from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Avinash N Bhute , B. B. Meshram

Since the advent of the Internet, quantifying the relative importance of web pages is at the core of search engine methods. According to one algorithm, PageRank, the worldwide web structure is represented by the Google matrix, whose…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-07 Kirill P. Kalinin , Natalia G. Berloff

This research is to search for alternatives to the resolution of complex medical diagnosis where human knowledge should be apprehended in a general fashion. Successful application examples show that human diagnostic capabilities are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 S. M. Kamruzzaman , Ahmed Ryadh Hasan , Abu Bakar Siddiquee , Md. Ehsanul Hoque Mazumder

A large amount of data on the WWW remains inaccessible to crawlers of Web search engines because it can only be exposed on demand as users fill out and submit forms. The Hidden web refers to the collection of Web data which can be accessed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Sonali Gupta , Komal Kumar Bhatia

The rapid expansion of Earth Science data from satellite observations, reanalysis products, and numerical simulations has created a critical bottleneck in scientific discovery, namely identifying relevant datasets for a given research…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Youran Sun , Yixin Wen , Haizhao Yang

This article investigates privacy risks to those visiting health- related web pages. The population of pages analyzed is derived from the 50 top search results for 1,986 common diseases. This yielded a total population of 80,124 unique…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Tim Libert

Rare diseases affect an estimated 300-400 million people worldwide, yet individual conditions remain underdiagnosed and poorly characterized due to their low prevalence and limited clinician familiarity. Computational phenotyping offers a…

Spreadsheets are end-user programs and domain models that are heavily employed in administration, financial forecasting, education, and science because of their intuitive, flexible, and direct approach to computation. As a result,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Michael Kohlhase , Corneliu Prodescu , Christian Liguda

This article presents results of experimental studies the effectiveness of the genetic algorithm that was applied to effective queries creation and relevant document selection. Studies were carried out to the comparative analysis of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-06 V. K. Ivanov , B. V. Palyukh

Re-finding information is an essential activity, however, it can be difficult when people struggle to express what they are looking for. Through a need-finding survey, we first seek opportunities for improving re-finding experiences, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Haekyu Park , Gonzalo Ramos , Jina Suh , Christopher Meek , Rachel Ng , Mary Czerwinski

Search engines play an essential role in our daily lives. Nonetheless, they are also very crucial in enterprise domain to access documents from various information sources. Since traditional search systems index the documents mainly by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Gizem Gezici

Approximately one-third of adults search the internet for health information before visiting an emergency department (ED), with 75% encountering inaccurate content. This study examines how such searches influence patient care. We conducted…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Michael A Grasso , Alexandra Rogalski , Naveed Farrukh , Anantaa Kotal , Enrique Calleros

Rare diseases affect 1 in 10 Americans yet remain systematically underdocumented in clinical records. ICD-based systems cannot capture their breadth, over 50\% of Orphanet codes lack a direct ICD mapping and only 2.2\% of HPO codes have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 John Wu , Adam Cross , Jimeng Sun

Rare diseases are characterized by low prevalence and are often chronically debilitating or life-threatening. Imaging-based classification of rare diseases is challenging due to the severe shortage in training examples. Few-shot learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jinghan Sun , Dong Wei , Kai Ma , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

A new clinical literature search engine, called CupQ, is presented. It aims to help clinicians stay updated with medical knowledge. Although PubMed is currently one of the most widely used digital libraries for biomedical information, it…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jesse Wang , Henry Kautz

Biomedical queries often rely on a deep understanding of specialized knowledge such as gene regulatory mechanisms and pathological processes of diseases. They require detailed analysis of complex physiological processes and effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Congying Liu , Xingyuan Wei , Peipei Liu , Yiqing Shen , Yanxu Mao , Tiehan Cui

Alzheimers Disease AD is an acute neuro disease that degenerates the brain cells and thus leads to memory loss progressively. It is a fatal brain disease that mostly affects the elderly. It steers the decline of cognitive and biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Nair Bini Balakrishnan , P. S. Sreeja , Jisha Jose Panackal

Rare-disease diagnosis remains one of the most pressing challenges in digital health, hindered by extreme data scarcity, privacy concerns, and the limited resources of edge devices. This paper proposes the Adaptive Federated Few-Shot…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut

Traditional retrieval methods have been essential for assessing document similarity but struggle with capturing semantic nuances. Despite advancements in latent semantic analysis (LSA) and deep learning, achieving comprehensive semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Solmaz Seyed Monir , Irene Lau , Shubing Yang , Dongfang Zhao

Artificial Immune Systems have been used successfully to build recommender systems for film databases. In this research, an attempt is made to extend this idea to web site recommendation. A collection of more than 1000 individuals web…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Tom Morrison , Uwe Aickelin