— Quasirandom or low discrepancy sequences, such as the Van der Corput, Sobol, Faure, Halton (named after their inventors) etc. are less random than a pseudorandom number sequenc...
Abstract. Web recommendation systems have become a popular means to improve the usability of web sites. This paper describes the architecture of a rulebased recommendation system a...
Efficient load balancing algorithms are the key to many efficient parallel applications. Until now, research in this area has mainly been focusing on homogeneous schemes. Howeve...
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which incl...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...