Unified theories of cognition
Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Personalized information delivery: an analysis of information filtering methods
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
A framework for the comparative analysis and evaluation of knowledge representation schemes
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching distributed collections with inference networks
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A holistic profile for information filtering systems
A holistic profile for information filtering systems
Query expansion using local and global document analysis
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improved algorithms for topic distillation in a hyperlinked environment
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving automatic query expansion
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The development of an adaptive decision support system
Decision Support Systems
GlOSS: text-source discovery over the Internet
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Haystack: per-user information environments
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Incorporating quality metrics in centralized/distributed information retrieval on the World Wide Web
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Query routing for Web search engines: architectures and experiments
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
SearchPad: explicit capture of search context to support Web search
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Personal ontologies for web navigation
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Placing search in context: the concept revisited
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Dynamic coordination of information management services for processing dynamic web content
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Modern Information Retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Query Routing in Large-Scale Digital Library Systems
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Ontology Based Personalized Search
ICTAI '99 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective
Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective
Advances in information retrieval: an introduction to the special issue
Information Systems
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
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Information retrieval from the Internet is becoming a commonplace phenomenon. Users and consumers are browsing websites and seeking various kinds of information for personal use. Retrieving quality information from the Internet can be challenging even for the computer-savvy. There are several search engines, even some personalized, to help users search for information on the Internet. In spite of all the claims about search engines, users still have difficult time retrieving relevant information quickly. This paper proposes a general conceptual model for user-centered quality information retrieval (UCQIR) from the Internet. The UCQIR conceptual model is presented in an architectural form. The UCQIR architectural model uses the concept of "Task-performer" to present various aspects of an information retrieval system at the knowledge level. Task-performer is an abstract construct used to conceptualize the idea of an entity that is competent in doing its tasks. The UCQIR architectural model can be used to easily design and develop domain-specific, user-centered quality information retrieval systems. The proposed UCQIR conceptual model is unique and comprehensive. The use of the conceptual model is illustrated through a design of a patient-centered quality medical information retrieval for the medical domain. We also present an experimental evaluation of a UCQIR prototype based upon real user experiences. The experimental results are very positive.