Structural hints in XML-retrieval queries can be used to specify both the granularity of the search result (the target element) and where in a document to search (support elements...
Abstract. We present a system that improves on current documentcentric Web search engine technology; adopting an entity-centric perspective, we are able to integrate data from both...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...
We propose to integrate ACO in a Constraint Programming (CP) language. Basically, we use the CP language to describe the problem to solve by means of constraints and we use the CP ...
This paper considers the problem of integer least squares, where the least squares solution is an integer vector, whereas the coefficient matrix is real. In particular, we discuss...