Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
The AncestorRank algorithm calculates an authority score by using just one characteristic of the web graph—the number of ancestors per node. For scalability, we estimate the num...
A vast amount of information is being stored in scientific databases on the web. The dynamic nature of the scientific data, the cost of providing an up-to-date snapshot of the wh...
Fatih Altiparmak, Ali Saman Tosun, Hakan Ferhatosm...
Multiagent environments are often not cooperative nor collaborative; in many cases, agents have conflicting interests, leading to adversarial interactions. This paper presents a ...
Inon Zuckerman, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey S. Rosenschei...
Recent results have established that a variety of voting rules are computationally hard to manipulate in the worst-case; this arguably provides some guarantee of resistance to man...