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TCS
2008
14 years 11 months ago
2008
In evaluating the performance of online algorithms for search trees, one wants to compare them to the best offline algorithm available. In this paper we lower bound the cost of an...
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ICALP
2003
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
2003
Springer
Although evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are widely used in practical optimization, their theoretical analysis is still in its infancy. Up to now results on the (expected) runtime ar...
ICWS
2004
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
2004
IEEE
We commonly come across pages that are not of interest while searching the web. This is partly due to a word or words in the search query having different contexts, the user obvio...
AAMAS
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
2010
Springer
This paper investigates cooperative search strategies for agents engaged in costly search in a complex environment. Searching cooperatively, several search goals can be satisfied w...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 12 months ago
2010
Springer
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...