Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Uncertain inference is a probabilistic generalisation of the logical view on databases, ranking documents according to their probabilities that they logically imply the query. For ...
An important class of searches on the world-wide-web has the goal to find an entry page (homepage) of an organisation. Entry page search is quite different from Ad Hoc search. Ind...
—The paper is focused on the problem of aggregation of probability distribution applicable for parallel Bivariate Marginal Distribution Algorithm (pBMDA). A new approach based on...
Automatic image annotation is a promising solution to enable more effective image retrieval by keywords. Traditionally, statistical models for image auto-annotation predicate each...
Yong Ge, Richang Hong, Zhiwei Gu, Rong Zhang, Xiuq...