Data fusion on the Web refers to the merging, into a unified single list, of the ranked document lists, which are retrieved in response to a user query by more than one Web search...
Abstract—The imperfect nature of context in Ambient Intelligence environments and the special characteristics of the entities that possess and share the available context informa...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...