We model budget-constrained keyword bidding in sponsored search auctions as a stochastic multiple-choice knapsack problem (S-MCKP) and design an algorithm to solve S-MCKP and the ...
Abstract— Over the last years, interest in hybrid metaheuristics has risen considerably in the field of optimization. Combinations of methods such as evolutionary algorithms and...
There is much interest in providing effective mobile search tools. Our focus is the value of in situ sharing of users’ mobile search activity. The QnotA prototype displays other...
David Arter, George Buchanan, Matt Jones, Richard ...
The ambiguity of person names in the Web has become a new area of interest for NLP researchers. This challenging problem has been formulated as the task of clustering Web search r...
In this paper, we describe our experiences in building and evolving an XQuery engine with a focus on data and service federation use cases. The engine that we discuss is a core co...
Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey,...