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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
No-commitment branch and bound search for distributed constraint optimization
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOP). The algorithm, called NCBB, is branch and bound search with modificati...
Anton Chechetka, Katia P. Sycara
WSDM
2010
ACM
160views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Concept Importance Using a Weighted Dependence Model
Modeling query concepts through term dependencies has been shown to have a significant positive effect on retrieval performance, especially for tasks such as web search, where rel...
Michael Bendersky, Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
MM
2010
ACM
162views Multimedia» more  MM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Interactive visual object search through mutual information maximization
Searching for small objects (e.g., logos) in images is a critical yet challenging problem. It becomes more difficult when target objects differ significantly from the query object...
Jingjing Meng, Junsong Yuan, Yuning Jiang, Nitya N...
JMLR
2008
124views more  JMLR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Learning Control Knowledge for Forward Search Planning
A number of today's state-of-the-art planners are based on forward state-space search. The impressive performance can be attributed to progress in computing domain independen...
Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert Givan
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson