Niche Search Engines offer an efficient alternative to traditional search engines when the results returned by general-purpose search engines do not provide a sufficient degree of...
C. Lee Giles, Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, ...
In this paper we study the characteristics of search queries submitted from mobile devices using various Yahoo! oneSearch applications during a 2 months period in the second half ...
This paper proposes a fast AND/OR tree search algorithm using a multiple-paths concurrent search method. Conventional heuristic AND/OR tree search algorithms expand nodes in only ...
There are a number of multimedia tasks and environments that can be collaborative in nature and involve contributions from more than one individual. Examples of such tasks include...
Martin Halvey, David Vallet, David Hannah, Yue Fen...
This paper considers the problem of an agent searching for a resource or a tangible good in a physical environment, where at each stage of its search it observes one source where ...
Yonatan Aumann, Noam Hazon, Sarit Kraus, David Sar...