Advancement in Information Foraging Theory

Shailesh Khapre, M. S. Saleem Basha

Departmentof Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.

DOI: 10.4236/iim.2012.46042                

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.

Keywords

Information Foraging; Information Scent; Patch-Models; Diet-Models; Marginal-Value; Foraging Theory

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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