Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
This paper addresses the problem of variable ranking for Support Vector Regression. The relevance criteria that we proposed are based on leave-one-out bounds and some variants and...
Heterogeneous entities or objects are very common and are usually interrelated with each other in many scenarios. For example, typical Web search activities involve multiple types...
Most similarity search techniques map the data objects into some high-dimensional feature space. The similarity search then corresponds to a nearest-neighbor search in the feature...
The problem of partitioning appears in several areas ranging from VLSI, parallel programming, to molecular biology. The interest in finding an optimal partition especially in VLSI ...
Sadiq M. Sait, Aiman H. El-Maleh, Raslan H. Al-Aba...