Our team
Rosa Gonzalez Hautamaki
Mikko HalonenAnna Fyodorova
Olga Grebenskaya
Information retrieval in “flight searching”
Fancy: You want to go from one
spot on the globe to another by plane…
Problem description(1)
cheap ticket minimum flight block time comfortable cabin beautiful stewardesses tasty cofee etc.
Your “flight requirements” are:
Problem description(2)
To solve this problem
you go to the travel agency you try to act on your authority
be careful: it might be expensive…
hm… are you sure?
Problem description(3)
INTERNET - is a huge source of informationSome search engines provide information of partners co. only (www.ebookers.com...)But... is the result the best choice?
Our goal
Find out if there is a way to
improve methods of search
in this area.
Plan of attack
Study and research… search engines IR techniques:
rating, indexing etc. Make experiments in searching Estimate existing algorithms
Any questions?