TIC: A Topic-based Intelligent Crawler
Hossein Shahsavand Baghdadi, Bali Ranaivo-Malançon · Siti Hasmah Digital Library-MMU Institutiona Repository (Multimedia University) · 2011
Topic-based Intelligent Crawler is a focused crawler to download the relevant pages to seed page regarding to their topics. If their topics are found similar, the pages would be considered as relevant. TIC is a crawler with ability to identify the topic of pages automatically and make decision about the similarity between them. One complete cycle of this process consists of four main stages.