TITLE:
Advancement in Information Foraging Theory
AUTHORS:
Shailesh Khapre, M. S. Saleem Basha
KEYWORDS:
Information Foraging; Information Scent; Patch-Models; Diet-Models; Marginal-Value; Foraging Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.4 No.6,
November
30,
2012
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the advantages of information foraging theory matched with traditional information retrieval theory and user behavior analysis theory, a search content framework for information foraging theory is described, on a thor- ough review of the two research branches i.e. the basic concept of information foraging theory and the elementary mod- els of information foraging theory, an extended framework is proposed,. Several problems for future research are also identified through.