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VLDB
2008
ACM
170views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
A multi-ranker model for adaptive XML searching
The evolution of computing technology suggests that it has become more feasible to offer access to Web information in a ubiquitous way, through various kinds of interaction device...
Ho Lam Lau, Wilfred Ng
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Da...
CIVR
2009
Springer
174views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Evaluation of GIST descriptors for web-scale image search
The GIST descriptor has recently received increasing attention in the context of scene recognition. In this paper we evaluate the search accuracy and complexity of the global GIST...
Matthijs Douze, Herve Jegou, Harsimrat Sandhawalia...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
93views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Strategic deliberation and truthful revelation: an impossibility result
In many market settings, agents do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they may have to solve computationally complex optimization problems, query databases, or perform ...
Kate Larson, Tuomas Sandholm