— Hyper-heuristics or “heuristics to chose heuristics” are an emergent search methodology that seeks to automate the process of selecting or combining simpler heuristics in o...
This work addresses a novel spatial keyword query called the m-closest keywords (mCK) query. Given a database of spatial objects, each tuple is associated with some descriptive inf...
A medium-scale user study was carried out to investigate the usability of a concept-based query expansion support tool. The tool was fully integrated into the interface of an IR sy...
Classification of microarray data requires the selection of a subset of relevant genes in order to achieve good classification performance. Several genetic algorithms have been d...
We present a performance study of the MAFIA algorithm for mining maximal frequent itemsets from a transactional database. In a thorough experimental analysis, we isolate the effec...
Douglas Burdick, Manuel Calimlim, Jason Flannick, ...