The notion of referral networks, as presented in the work of Singh and Yolum, and their application to knowledge management, lacks two fundamental aspects; the relation of concept...
Local search algorithms often get trapped in local optima. Algorithms such as tabu search and simulated annealing 'escape' local optima by accepting nonimproving moves. ...
Laura Barbulescu, Jean-Paul Watson, L. Darrell Whi...
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...
Multimedia ranking algorithms are usually user-neutral and measure the importance and relevance of documents by only using the visual contents and meta-data. However, users’ int...
Liang Gou, Hung-Hsuan Chen, Jung-Hyun Kim, Xiaolon...
Code specialization is a way to obtain significant improvement in the performance of an application. It works by exposing values of different parameters in source code. The availa...
Minhaj Ahmad Khan, Henri-Pierre Charles, Denis Bar...