— When an agent observes its environment, there are two important characteristics of the perceived information. One is the relevance of information and the other is redundancy. T...
Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum, Qingxia...
An evolutionary reinforcement-learning algorithm, the operation of which was not associated with an optimality condition, was instantiated in an artificial organism. The algorithm ...
Abstract. The success of recent Web 2.0 platforms shows that people share information and resources within their social community and beyond. The use of these platforms in an e-lea...
Fabian Abel, Ivana Marenzi, Wolfgang Nejdl, Sergej...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...