Ant World Papers

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• Paul Kantor, Endre Boros, Ben Melamed, David J. Neu, Vladimir Meñkov, Qin Shi, Myung-Ho Kim. Ant World. (A brief one-page description of Ant World.) Also in PostScript, PDF and LaTeX. In Proceedings of SIGIR'99 (22nd International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval), p. 323. [The copyright has been transferred to the ACM.]

• Paul B. Kantor, Endre Boros, Benjamin Melamed, Vladimir Meñkov. The Information Quest: A Dynamic Model of User's Information Needs. Also in PostScript, PDF and LaTeX. (Covers the theory behind the current (1998-1999) implementation of the Ant World.) In Proceedings of tthe 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociaty for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp. 536-545. [The copyright has been transferred to the ASIS.]

• Endre Boros, Paul B. Kantor, Dave J. Neu. Pheromonic Representation of User Quests by Digital Structures . (Background for the LAD-based quest matching). In Proceedings of tthe 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociaty for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp. 633-642. [The copyright has been transferred to the ASIS.] Also in PostScript, PDF and LaTeX.

• Paul Kantor, Myung-Ho Kim, Ulukbek Ibraev, Koray Atasoy. Estimating the Number of Relevant Documents in Enormous Collections. In Proceedings of tthe 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociaty for Information Science. Volume 36, 1999, pp. 507-514. [The copyright has been transferred to the ASIS.] Also in PDF and LaTeX.

• Bracha Shapira, Paul B. Kantor, and Benjamin Melamed. "Preliminary study of the effect of motivation on user behavior in a collaborative information finding system."

• Vladimir Meñkov, David J. Neu, Qin Shi. AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool . [This paper will appear in DCW 2000 proceedings. Copyright © Springer-Verlag.] In PostScript, PDF (figures can't be seen), and LaTeX.

• Paul B. Kantor, et al, AntWorld: Capturing Human Intelligence in the Net . The original long (12 pages) version of the article submitted to Communications of ACM. In MS Word format only.