A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
In this paper, we present a stochastic version of the Location Model with Risk Pooling (LMRP) that optimizes location, inventory, and allocation decisions under random parameters ...
Lawrence V. Snyder, Mark S. Daskin, Chung-Piaw Teo
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Abstract. In practical applications evaluating a fitness function is frequently subject to noise, i. e., the “true fitness” is disturbed by some random variations. Evolutiona...