In this paper we present a method for reformulating the Recommender Systems problem in an Information Retrieval one. In our tests we have a dataset of users who give ratings for s...
Abstract— This paper presents a comparison of four bioinspired algorithms (all seen as search engines) with a similar constraint-handling mechanism (Deb’s feasibility rules) to...
Background: Optimization theory has been applied to complex biological systems to interrogate network properties and develop and refine metabolic engineering strategies. For examp...
Erwin P. Gianchandani, Matthew A. Oberhardt, Antho...
This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2008 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. We have participated in the Englis...
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order, given feedback in the form of ...
William W. Cohen, Robert E. Schapire, Yoram Singer