In many database applications involving string data, it is common to have near neighbor queries (asking for strings that are similar to a query string) or nearest neighbor queries...
The Hausdorff distance is commonly used as a similarity measure between two point sets. Using this measure, a set X is considered similar to Y iff every point in X is close to at ...
The performance of genetic programming relies mostly on population-contained variation. If the population diversity is low then there will be a greater chance of the algorithm bein...
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
In this paper the classical propositional assumption-based model is extended to incorporate probabilities for the assumptions. Then the whole model is placed into the framework of...