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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
GECCO
2007
Springer
209views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
15 years 6 months ago
Kernel based automatic clustering using modified particle swarm optimization algorithm
This paper introduces a method for clustering complex and linearly non-separable datasets, without any prior knowledge of the number of naturally occurring clusters. The proposed ...
Ajith Abraham, Swagatam Das, Amit Konar
ICPR
2000
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Automatic Training of Page Segmentation Algorithms: An Optimization Approach
Most page segmentation algorithms have userspecifiable free parameters. However, algorithm designers typically do not provide a quantitative/rigorous method for choosing values fo...
Song Mao, Tapas Kanungo
VLDB
1999
ACM
89views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 4 months ago
Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, Val Tannen
VLDB
1999
ACM
87views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 4 months ago
Query Optimization for XML
XML is an emerging standard for data representation and exchange on the World-Wide Web. Due to the nature of information on the Web and the inherent flexibility of XML, we expect...
Jason McHugh, Jennifer Widom