Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
In high-dimensional and complex metric spaces, determining the nearest neighbor (NN) of a query object ? can be a very expensive task, because of the poor partitioning operated by...
Abstract. The retrieval of objects from a multimedia database employs a measure which defines a similarity score for every pair of objects. The measure should effectively follow th...
— By dividing the multiobjective optimization of the decision space into several small regions, this paper proposes multi-objective optimization algorithm based on sub-regional s...
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...