Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
Distributed cognition as an approach to collaborative work holds that a work unit is cognitive system in which cognitive activities are carried out jointly by workers with the use ...
Yan Xiao, Caterina Lasome, Jacqueline A. Moss, Col...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
There are many innovative proposals introduced in the literature under the evolutionary computation field, from which estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) is one of them....
Alexander Mendiburu, Roberto Santana, Jose Antonio...