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IUI
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Towards intelligent QA interfaces: discourse processing for context questions
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Mingyu Sun, Joyce Y. Chai
INFOSCALE
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Storage load balancing via local interactions among peers in unstructured P2P networks
— The present paper introduces a replication method that is meant to balance the storage load of peers in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for file sharing and to provid...
Kei Ohnishi, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Kento Ichikawa, Mas...
VLDB
2008
ACM
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16 years 2 days ago
Enhancing histograms by tree-like bucket indices
Histograms are used to summarize the contents of relations into a number of buckets for the estimation of query result sizes. Several techniques (e.g., MaxDiff and V-Optimal) have ...
Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Domenico Sacc...
AAAI
1996
15 years 1 months ago
Total-Order Multi-Agent Task-Network Planning for Contract Bridge
This paper describes the results of applying a modified version of hierarchical task-network (HTN) planning to the problem of declarer play in contract bridge. We represent inform...
Stephen J. J. Smith, Dana S. Nau, Thomas A. Throop
SAC
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Adaptive mutation with fitness and allele distribution correlation for genetic algorithms
In this paper, a new gene based adaptive mutation scheme is proposed for genetic algorithms (GAs), where the information on gene based fitness statistics and on gene based allele...
Shengxiang Yang, Sima Uyar