The Web information space is rapidly growing in the size and the diversity of both its data and its audience. A consequence is that Web Information Systems (WIS) in many applicati...
Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, ...
—The growing trend towards using component based design approach in embedded system development requires addressing newer system engineering challenges. These systems are usually...
RankBoost is a recently proposed algorithm for learning ranking functions. It is simple to implement and has strong justifications from computational learning theory. We describe...
Raj D. Iyer, David D. Lewis, Robert E. Schapire, Y...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...