— Learning to rank has become a popular method for web search ranking. Traditionally, expert-judged examples are the major training resource for machine learned web ranking, whic...
Keke Chen, Ya Zhang, Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, ...
Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of nurse rostering in Belgian hospitals. This is a highly constrained real world problem that was (until the results of this research we...
Edmund K. Burke, Patrick De Causmaecker, Greet Van...
With the increasing interest in developing pervasive computing technologies there is growing recognition of the problems of maintaining user privacy. In the Daidalos pervasive sys...
Elizabeth Papadopoulou, Sarah McBurney, Nick K. Ta...
Mining user preferences plays a critical role in many important applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), product and service recommendation, and marketing camp...
Bin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xuemin Lin, David W. Cheung, ...
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...