Relevance feedback has been proposed as an important technique to boost the retrieval performance in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However, since there exists a semantic g...
In this paper we use a Unified Relationship Matrix (URM) to represent a set of heterogeneous data objects (e.g., web pages, queries) and their interrelationships (e.g., hyperlinks...
Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Weiguo Fan, Benyu Zhang, ...
Let P be a set of n points in R3 . The 2-center problem for P is to find two congruent balls of the minimum radius whose union covers P. We present two randomized algorithms for ...
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Rinat Ben Avraham, Micha Sharir
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
There are many innovative proposals introduced in the literature under the evolutionary computation field, from which estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) is one of them....
Alexander Mendiburu, Roberto Santana, Jose Antonio...