Abstract--The difficulties encountered in sequential decisionmaking problems under uncertainty are often linked to the large size of the state space. Exploiting the structure of th...
This paper proposes a novel approach to the visualization of complex, but interrelated, sets of information to ease user cognition. Principally, it explores the potential of provi...
A spatial computer is a distributed multi-agent system that is embedded in a geometric space. A key challenge is engineering local agent interaction rules that enable spatial comp...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR communit...