We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
In this paper we show how a segmentation as preprocessing paradigm can be used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of model search in an image. We operationalize this idea usin...
1 Profile Hidden Markov Models (profile HMMs) are used as a popular bioinformatics tool for sensitive database searching, e.g. a set of not annotated protein sequences is compared...
We present a way to integrate search and Monte-Carlo methods in the game of Go. Our program uses search to find the status of tactical goals, builds groups, selects interesting go...
In this paper, we discuss a parallel tabu search algorithm with implementation in a heterogeneous environment. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposit...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Hassan Barada, ...