Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). Accompanied by CD-ROM: Appendix 1: Electronic copy of source code and input data. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 173-179). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-98).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 136 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-106).

Yue Che Wang, Kenneth. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-106). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Abstract (Chinese) --- p.iv / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The World-Wide Web --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Searching Information on the WWW --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Intelligent content-based information discovery on the Web --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.7 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.9 / Chapter 2.1 --- Search Engines --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- Information Indexing Systems --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Agent-based Systems --- p.13 / Chapter 2.4 --- Information Filtering Systems --- p.16 / Chapter 3 --- Overview of the Proposed Approach --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- System Architecture --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Topic Profile Specification --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- Text Representation --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Profile Feature Representation --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Document Feature Representation --- p.33 / Chapter 3.4 --- Advantages of the Topic Profile Specifications --- p.34 / Chapter 4 --- Relevance Score Evaluation Process and Relevance Feedback Model --- p.36 / Chapter 4.1 --- Term Weights --- p.37 / Chapter 4.2 --- Document Evaluation through Relevance Score --- p.39 / Chapter 4.3 --- Learning via Relevance Feedback --- p.42 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Introduction to Relevance Feedback --- p.43 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Feature Extraction from the Relevance Feedback Models --- p.44 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Topic Feature Vectors Refinement --- p.49 / Chapter 5 --- Intelligent Web Exploration --- p.51 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction to Simulated Annealing --- p.51 / Chapter 5.2 --- Intelligent Web Exploration by Simulated Annealing --- p.54 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Mathematical Setting of the Discovery Process --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- The Entire Exploration Algorithm --- p.58 / Chapter 5.3 --- Incorporating with the Relevance Feedback Model --- p.60 / Chapter 6 --- Experimental Results --- p.61 / Chapter 6.1 --- The Design of the Experiments --- p.61 / Chapter 6.2 --- Experiments on the Effects of the Simulated Annealing Schedule upon the Discovery Precision --- p.65 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.66 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Results --- p.66 / Chapter 6.3 --- Experiments on the Index Page Topic Profile Specification --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Results --- p.73 / Chapter 6.4 --- Experiments on the Relevance Feedback with Full-Text Feature Extraction Strategy --- p.75 / Chapter 6.4.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.75 / Chapter 6.4.2 --- Results --- p.76 / Chapter 6.5 --- Comparisons of the Relevance Feedback Feature Extraction Strate- gies --- p.78 / Chapter 6.5.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.78 / Chapter 6.5.2 --- Results --- p.79 / Chapter 6.6 --- Comparisons between the Example Page and the Keyword Topic Profile Specifications --- p.82 / Chapter 6.6.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.83 / Chapter 6.6.2 --- Results --- p.83 / Chapter 6.7 --- Summary from the Experimental Results --- p.87 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.91 / Chapter 7.1 --- The Aim of Our Proposed System --- p.91 / Chapter 7.2 --- The Favorable Features and the Effectiveness of Our Proposed System --- p.92 / Chapter 7.3 --- Future Work --- p.94 / Appendix --- p.96 / Chapter A --- List of URLs for the Example Pages --- p.96 / Chapter B --- List of URLs for the Arbitrarily Chosen Index Pages --- p.98 / Bibliography --- p.100

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 240-250).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2008. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 160 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 154-160).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 1996. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. / Kenneth Cunefare, Committee Chair ; Nader Sadegh, Committee Member ; Aldo Ferri, Committee Member ; Sathyanaraya Hanagud, Committee Member ; Massimo Ruzzene, Committee Member. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2006. / Bibliography: leaves 115-116. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 99 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-99).