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The Bipartite Clique: A Topological Paradigm For Web User Search Customization And Web Site Restructuring, Brenda F. Choyce-Miles

Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this dissertation research is to aid the Web user to achieve his search objective at a host Web site by organizing a strongly connected neighborhood of Web pages that are thematically and spatially related to the user's search interest. Therefore, methods were developed to (1) find all Web pages at a given Web site that are thematically similar to a user's initial choice of a Web page (selected from the set of Web pages returned in response to a query by any popular search engine), and (2) organize these pages hierarchically in terms of their relevance to …