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Kaur, Parneet; Singh, Manpreet; Singh Josan, Gurpreet – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
Rank Aggregation techniques have found wide applications for metasearch along with other streams such as Sports, Voting System, Stock Markets, and Reduction in Spam. This paper presents the optimization of rank lists for web queries put by the user on different MetaSearch engines. A metaheuristic approach such as Genetic algorithm based rank…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Search Engines, Genetics, Mathematical Formulas
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Zaharias, Panagiotis; Koutsabasis, Panayiotis – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss heuristic evaluation as a method for evaluating e-learning courses and applications and more specifically to investigate the applicability and empirical use of two customized e-learning heuristic protocols. Design/methodology/approach: Two representative e-learning heuristic protocols were chosen…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Analysis, Electronic Learning
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Ahmed, S. M. Zabed; McKnight, Cliff; Oppenheim, Charles – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2006
This paper presents a user-centred design and evaluation methodology for ensuring the usability of IR interfaces. The methodology is based on sequentially performing: a competitive analysis, user task analysis, heuristic evaluation, formative evaluation and a summative comparative evaluation. These techniques are described, and their application…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Formative Evaluation, Task Analysis, Comparative Analysis