A General Evaluation Framework for Adaptive Focused Crawlers

Focused crawling is increasingly seen as a solution to increase the freshness and coverage of local repository of documents related to specific topics by selectively traversing paths on the web. The adaptation is a peculiar feature that makes it possible to modify the search strategies according to the particular environment, its alterations and its relationships with the given input parameters during the search. This paper introduces a general evaluation framework for adaptive focused crawlers