Large-scale Parallel Web Search Engines (WSEs) needs to adopt a strategy for partitioning the inverted index among a set of parallel server nodes. In this paper we are interested ...
This paper focuses on the development of a cost-aware Bayesian sequential decision-making strategy for the search and classification of multiple unknown objects over a given domain...
Yue Wang, Islam I. Hussein, Donald R. Brown, Richa...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...
When exploring a game over a large strategy space, it may not be feasible or cost-effective to evaluate the payoff of every relevant strategy profile. For example, determining a p...
Patrick R. Jordan, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Michael P...
In problem solving, it is often important not only to find a solution but also to be able to explain it. We use the game of Bridge to illustrate how tactics, which formalise domai...