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GECCO
2009
Springer
151views Optimization» more  GECCO 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Swarming to rank for information retrieval
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-...
ICDCSW
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A User-Driven Adaptation Strategy for Mobile Video Streaming Applications
Recent advances in mobile and wireless technologies make possible the bear of new services and the extension of traditional ones in new scenarios. Adaptation strategies play a cru...
Domenico Cotroneo, Generoso Paolillo, C. Pirro, St...
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
NOSSDAV
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A framework for architecting peer-to-peer receiver-driven overlays
This paper presents a simple and scalable framework for architecting peer-to-peer overlays called Peer-to-peer Receiverdriven Overlay (or PRO). PRO is designed for non-interactive...
Reza Rejaie, Shad Stafford
WWIC
2004
Springer
123views Communications» more  WWIC 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Experimental Analysis of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Packet loss and delay in Internet degrade the quality of requested services like VoIP (Voice over IP) or Video Streaming. In novel network scenarios where wired and wireless connec...
Giulio Iannello, Antonio Pescapè, Giorgio V...