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SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Positional language models for information retrieval
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
TSMC
2010
14 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Discounted Cash Flows in Project Scheduling - An Ant Colony Optimization Approach
Abstract--The multimode resource-constrained projectscheduling problem with discounted cash flows (MRCPSPDCF) is important and challenging for project management. As the problem is...
Wei-neng Chen, Jun Zhang, Henry Shu-Hung Chung, Ru...
ICDT
2005
ACM
128views Database» more  ICDT 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
The Pipelined Set Cover Problem
Abstract. A classical problem in query optimization is to find the optimal ordering of a set of possibly correlated selections. We provide an ion of this problem as a generalizati...
Kamesh Munagala, Shivnath Babu, Rajeev Motwani, Je...
VLDB
2008
ACM
140views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
16 years 3 days ago
Efficient temporal counting with bounded error
This paper studies aggregate search in transaction time databases. Specifically, each object in such a database can be modeled as a horizontal segment, whose y-projection is its s...
Yufei Tao, Xiaokui Xiao
HICSS
2010
IEEE
182views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2010»
15 years 6 months ago
Analyzing Leadership Dynamics in Distributed Group Communication
—We apply social network analysis (SNA) to examine the dynamics of leadership in distributed groups, specifically Free/Libre Open Source Software development projects, and its r...
Kevin Crowston, Andrea Wiggins, James Howison