Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...
Semiconductor design companies are in a continuous search for design tools that address the ever increasing chip design complexity coupled with strict time-to-market schedules and...
This paper introduces the wave model, a novel approach on analyzing the behavior of GAs. Our aim is to give techniques that have practical relevance and provide tools for improvin...
This paper reports our experience extending an on-line printer controller based on AI planning to handle two significant features of this commercially important domain: execution ...