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ICONIP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
A Markov Model for Multiagent Patrolling in Continuous Time
Abstract. We present a model for the multiagent patrolling problem with continuous-time. An anytime and online algorithm is then described and extended to asynchronous multiagent d...
Jean-Samuel Marier, Camille Besse, Brahim Chaib-dr...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Query suggestion using hitting time
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Qiaozhu Mei, Dengyong Zhou, Kenneth Ward Church
CHI
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Time is of the essence: an evaluation of temporal compression algorithms
Although speech is a potentially rich information source, a major barrier to exploiting speech archives is the lack of useful tools for efficiently accessing lengthy speech record...
Simon Tucker, Steve Whittaker
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: the roles of task stage and task type
Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user’s task needing to...
Jingjing Liu, Nicholas J. Belkin
MANSCI
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang