Author(s)

Shailesh Khapre, M. S. Saleem Basha

Departmentof Computer Science, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.

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.

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

S. Khapre and M. Basha, "Advancement in Information Foraging Theory," Intelligent Information Management, Vol. 4 No. 6, 2012, pp. 383-389. doi: 10.4236/iim.2012.46042.