In concurrent cooperative multiagent learning, each agent simultaneously learns to improve the overall performance of the team, with no direct control over the actions chosen by i...
Inverted index structures are the mainstay of modern text retrieval systems. They can be constructed quickly using off-line mergebased methods, and provide efficient support for ...
We propose a method to train a cascade of classifiers by simultaneously optimizing all its stages. The approach relies on the idea of optimizing soft cascades. In particular, inst...
We propose a complete design for a scope limited, multihop broadcast middleware, which is adapted to the variability of the ad-hoc environment and works in unlimited ad-hoc networ...
Alaeddine El Fawal, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Kav&eacut...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...