This paper presents a new framework for anytime heuristic search where the task is to achieve as many goals as possible within the allocated resources. We show the inadequacy of t...
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
This paper addresses the problem of using unstructured queries to search a structured database in voice search applications. By incorporating structural information in music metad...
Young-In Song, Ye-Yi Wang, Yun-Cheng Ju, Mike Selt...
Given an RNA family characterized by conserved sequences and folding constraints, the problem is to search for all the instances of the RNA family in a genomic database. As seed-ba...
Terms used in search queries often have multiple meanings. Consequently, search results corresponding to different meanings may be retrieved, making identifying relevant results in...