The landscape formalism unites a finite candidate solution set to a neighborhood topology and an objective function. This construct can be used to model the behavior of local sea...
Recent work has shown the promise in using local-search “probes” as a basis for directing a backtracking-based refinement search. In this approach, the decision about the next...
Alexander Nareyek, Stephen F. Smith, Christian M. ...
Haptic data such as 3D motion capture data and sign language animation data are new forms of multimedia data. The motion data is multi-attribute, and indexing of multiattribute da...
Chuanjun Li, Gaurav N. Pradhan, Si-Qing Zheng, B. ...
We present a simple modification to the idea of impact-based search which has proven highly effective for several applications. Impacts measure the average reduction in search spa...
Serdar Kadioglu, Eoin O'Mahony, Philippe Refalo, M...
Web user search customization research has been fueled by the recognition that if the WWW is to attain to its optimal potential as an interactive medium the development of new and...