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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user’s prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user’s current Web search. Rather than re...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
AIRWEB
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
An Analysis of Factors Used in Search Engine Ranking
This paper investigates the influence of different page features on the ranking of search engine results. We use Google (via its API) as our testbed and analyze the result rankin...
Albert Bifet, Carlos Castillo, Paul-Alexandru Chir...
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A polynomial algorithm for decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints
One of the difficulties to adapt MDPs for the control of cooperative multi-agent systems, is the complexity issued from Decentralized MDPs. Moreover, existing approaches can not ...
Aurélie Beynier, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
GECCO
2005
Springer
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15 years 4 months ago
Takeover time curves in random and small-world structured populations
We present discrete stochastic mathematical models for the growth curves of synchronous and asynchronous evolutionary algorithms with populations structured according to a random ...
Mario Giacobini, Marco Tomassini, Andrea Tettamanz...