As the Web continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to search for relevant information using traditional search engines. Topic-specific search engines provide an al...
Temporal difference (TD) algorithms are attractive for reinforcement learning due to their ease-of-implementation and use of "bootstrapped" return estimates to make effi...
An interpretation system finds the likely mappings from portions of an image to real-world objects. An interpretation policy specifies when to apply which imaging operator, to whi...
The reward-based autobiographical memory approach has been applied to the Web search agent. The approach is based on the analogy between the Web and the environmental exploration b...
Maya Dimitrova, Emilia I. Barakova, Tino Lourens, ...
Abstract. Distributed heterogeneous search environments are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers...