Date of Publication :7th August 2015

Abstract: The 'Faceted Search' implemented in Mainframe using COBOL, DB2 and CICS concepts is highlighted in this paper. Faceted search, also called faceted navigation or faceted browsing, is a technique for accessing information organized according to a faceted classification system, allowing users to explore a collection of information by applying multiple filters. A faceted classification system classifies each information element along multiple explicit dimensions, called facets, enabling the classifications to be accessed and ordered in multiple ways rather than in a single, pre-determined, taxonomic order. Facets correspond to properties of the information elements. They are often derived by analysis of the text of an item using entity extraction techniques or from pre-existing fields in a database such as author, descriptor, language, and format. The project focuses on making the faceted search intelligent by providing personalized search choice based on the overall shopping experience. Thus, existing web-pages, product descriptions or online collections of articles can be augmented with navigational facets. The credential part of this paper gives the idea of application of faceted search for easier search options for the users.

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