A Review of Information Acquisition Based on Information Foraging Theory

Information foraging has gained broad attentions within the cognitive science, computer science and library and information science community in recent years, and its critical ideas have affected these communities a lot. However, few researchers get the basic view of information foraging theory which will blocks this theory's future development. The paper gives a framework for information foraging theory and summarized views of the basic parts in the theory. Finally the future researches are identified through.