The social impact from the World Wide Web cannot be underestimated, but technologies used to build the Web are also revolutionizing the sharing of business and government informat...
Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmi...
This paper focuses on decentralized personalized search engines. It is composed of three parts. Firstly, we formulate the problem and we propose a graph-based measure of quality o...
Adaptive Memetic Algorithms couple an evolutionary algorithm with a number of local search heuristics for improving the evolving solutions. They are part of a broad family of meta...
This paper contributes to solve effectively stochastic resource allocation problems known to be NP-Complete. To address this complex resource management problem, a Qdecomposition...
Today, search engine is the most commonly used tool for Web information retrieval, however, its current status is still far from satisfaction. This paper focuses on clustering Web...