Carrying out experiments in Information Retrieval is a heavy activity requiring fast tools to treat collections of significant size, and at the same time flexible tools to leave...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
Information retrieval (IR) functions serve a critical role in many digital library systems. There are numerous mature IR algorithms that have been implemented and it will be a was...
Classification and change detection of land cover types in the remotely sensed images is one of the major applications in remote sensing. This paper presents a hierarchical framew...
stract This panel addresses a very important area that is often neglected or overlooked by database systems, database applications developers and data warehouse designers, namely s...