In this paper, we study the use of XML tagged keywords (or simply key-tags) to search an XML fragment in a collection of XML documents. We present techniques that are able to empl...
1 The techniques for image analysis and classi cation generally consider the image sample labels xed and without uncertainties. The rank regression problem is studied in this pape...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
In many applications, users specify target values for certain attributes, without requiring exact matches to these values in return. Instead, the result to such queries is typical...
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...