Abstract--Search engines have greatly influenced the way people access information on the Internet as such engines provide the preferred entry point to billions of pages on the Web...
Ao-Jan Su, Y. Charlie Hu, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, C...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Label ranking is the task of inferring a total order over a predefined set of labels for each given instance. We present a general framework for batch learning of label ranking f...
Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous in Artificial Intelligence. The backtrack algorithms that maintain some local consistency during search have become the de ...