In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Achieving good performance on a modern machine with a multi-level memory hierarchy, and in particular on a machine with software-managed memories, requires precise tuning of progr...
Manman Ren, Ji Young Park, Mike Houston, Alex Aike...
Failures in plan execution can be attributed to errors in the execution of plan steps or violations of the plan structure. The structure of a plan prescribes which actions have to...
Cees Witteveen, Nico Roos, Adriaan ter Mors, Xiaoy...
In recent years different authors have proposed the used of random-walk-based algorithms for varying tasks in the networking community. These proposals include searching, routing...