This paper discusses a new type of semi-supervised document clustering that uses partial supervision to partition a large set of documents. Most clustering methods organizes docum...
Noun phrases carry much of the information in a text. Systems that attempt to acquire knowledge from text must first decompose complex noun phrases to get access to that informatio...
A variety of hybrid genetic algorithms has been recently proposed to address the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), a problem known to be NP-hard. However, very few...
Providing access to digital libraries will require interfaces that effectively mediate between the retrieval needs of library users and the materials that the library has to offer...
The constraint paradigm provides powerful concepts to represent and solve different kinds of planning problems, e. g. factory scheduling. Factory scheduling is a demanding optimiz...