The contribution of this paper is in demonstrating the impact of AND/OR search spaces view on solutions counting. In contrast to the traditional (OR) search space view, the AND/OR ...
Participatory search can be defined as a search service framework where each participant takes care of gathering information and contributing indexes to a central location where t...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Lucian Hancu, Mari...
Concept Search extends syntactic search, i.e., search based on the computation of string similarity between words, with semantic search, i.e., search based on the computation of s...
This paper focuses on using beam search, a heuristic search algorithm, for pruning state spaces while generating. The original beam search is adapted to the state space generation ...
This paper explores search behavior of online shoppers. Information economics literature suggests that search cost in electronic markets has essentially been reduced to zero as co...