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GIS
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Adaptive nearest neighbor queries in travel time networks
Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Modeling reformulation using passage analysis
Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Xiaobing Xue, W. Bruce Croft, David A. Smith
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GECCO
2009
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Why evolution is not a good paradigm for program induction: a critique of genetic programming
We revisit the roots of Genetic Programming (i.e. Natural Evolution), and conclude that the mechanisms of the process of evolution (i.e. selection, inheritance and variation) are ...
John R. Woodward, Ruibin Bai
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Efficient search engine measurements
We address the problem of measuring global quality metrics of search engines, like corpus size, index freshness, and density of duplicates in the corpus. The recently proposed est...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Maxim Gurevich
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
AS-index: a structure for string search using n-grams and algebraic signatures
AS-Index is a new index structure for exact string search in disk resident databases. It uses hashing, unlike known alternate structures, tree or trie based, and indexes every n-g...
Cédric du Mouza, Witold Litwin, Philippe Ri...