Most queries to text search engines are ranked or Boolean. Phrase querying is a powerful technique for refining searches, but is expensive to implement on conventional indexes. I...
Lighthouse is an on-line interface for a Web-based information retrieval system. It accepts queries from a user, collects the retrieved documents from the search engine, organizes...
In this paper, we present a hierarchical evolutionary approach to hardware/software partitioning for real-time embedded systems. In contrast to most of previous approaches, we app...
Link analysis has been used to enhance retrieval results of the web search for years. PageRank and HITS are the two well-known algorithms widely used by most researchers. The form...
We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...