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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou
GECCO
2005
Springer
115views Optimization» more  GECCO 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Search-based improvement of subsystem decompositions
The subsystem decomposition of a software system degrades gradually during its lifetime and therefore it gets harder and harder to maintain. As a result this decomposition needs t...
Olaf Seng, Markus Bauer, Matthias Biehl, Gert Pach...
CLUSTER
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient and Robust Computation of Resource Clusters in the Internet
Applications such as parallel computing, online games, and content distribution networks need to run on a set of resources with particular network connection characteristics to ge...
Chuang Liu, Ian T. Foster
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On-line neuroevolution applied to The Open Racing Car Simulator
— The application of on-line learning techniques to modern computer games is a promising research direction. In fact, they can be used to improve the game experience and to achie...
Luigi Cardamone, Daniele Loiacono, Pier Luca Lanzi