System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Recently, hashing based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) techniques have been attracting lots of attention in computer vision. The data-dependent hashing methods, e.g., Spectral...
Hao Xu, Jingdong Wang, Zhu Li, Gang Zeng, Shipeng ...
The enormous growth of the world wide web in recent years has made it important to perform resource discovery e ciently. Consequently, several new ideas have been proposed in rece...
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...