Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a stochastic search method that mimics the social behavior of real ants colonies, which manage to establish the shortest route to feeding sources a...
Stefka Fidanova, Pencho Marinov, Krassimir T. Atan...
We study the problem of reliably searching for resources in untrusted peer-to-peer networks, where a significant portion of the participating network nodes may act maliciously to...
Machine Learned Ranking approaches have shown successes in web search engines. With the increasing demands on developing effective ranking functions for different search domains, ...
Keke Chen, Rongqing Lu, C. K. Wong, Gordon Sun, La...
R-tree data structures are widely used in spatial databases to store, manage and manipulate spatial information. As the data volume of such databases is typically very large, the q...
Xiang Xiao, Tuo Shi, Pranav Vaidya, Jaehwan John L...
One of the surprising findings from the study of CNF satisfiability in the 1990's has been the success of iterative repair techniques, and in particular of weighted iterative...