This paper presents a simple mathematical analysis of some features of the Harmony Search algorithm (HS). HS is a recently developed derivative-free optimization algorithm, which ...
Effective representation of Web search results remains an open problem in the Information Retrieval community. For ambiguous queries, a traditional approach is to organize search ...
Abstract. It the becomes possible that users can get kinds of information by just inputting search keyword(s) representing the topic which users are interested in. But it is not al...
Screening is an important task to convert a continuoustone image into a binary image with pure black and white pixels. The main contribution of this paper is to show a new algorit...
General image retrieval is often carried out by a text-based search engine, such as Google Image Search. In this case, natural language queries are used as input to the search eng...