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?