The development of information and communication technologies and the expansion of the Internet means that, nowadays, there are huge amounts of information available via these eme...
It is well known that the main objective of conceptual retrieval models is to go beyond simple term matching by relaxing term independence assumption through concept recognition. ...
We present two novel perturbation-based linkage learning algorithms that extend LINC [5]; a version of LINC optimised for decomposition tasks (oLINC) and a hierarchical version of...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...