The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Abstract. Multi-Point Constructive Search maintains a small set of “elite solutions” that are used to heuristically guide constructive search through periodically restarting se...
The linear-width of a graph G is de ned to be the smallest integer k such that the edges of G can be arranged in a linear ordering e1;:::;er in such a way that for every i = 1;:::...
One of the important components of a local search strategy for satisfiability testing is the variable selection heuristic, which determines the next variable to be flipped. In a...
When a digital library is decomposed into many geographically distributed repositories,searchefficiencybecomesan issue. Increasing network congestion makes this a compelling issue...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Walter R. Crei...