The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Interactive query expansion (IQE) (c.f. Efthimiadis, 1996) is a potentially useful technique to help searchers formulate improved query statements, and ultimately retrieve better ...
Simulation is perhaps the most cost-effective tool to evaluate the operation of a system under design. A flexible, easy to extend, fully object-oriented, and multilayered simulato...
Abbas Nayebi, Sina Meraji, Arash Shamaei, Hamid Sa...
This paper attempts to extend the XCS research by analyzing the impact of information exchange between XCS agents on classifier performance. Two types of information are exchange...
Recently researchers have introduced methods to develop reusable knowledge in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we define simple principles to combine skills in reinforce...