Recent work has shown the promise in using local-search “probes” as a basis for directing a backtracking-based refinement search. In this approach, the decision about the next...
Alexander Nareyek, Stephen F. Smith, Christian M. ...
— Since the advent of distributed computer systems an active field of research has been the investigation of scheduling strategies for parallel applications. The common approach...
— Measurement-based optimization is one important strategy to improve the performance of bandwidth-demanding peer-to-peer systems. However, to date, we have little quantitative k...
T. S. Eugene Ng, Yang-Hua Chu, Sanjay G. Rao, Kunw...
Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...