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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 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 3 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
15 years 10 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 1 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 1 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