We explore the relationship between time and relevance using TREC ad-hoc queries. A type of query is identified that favors very recent documents. We propose a time-based language...
Model-driven engineering is at the forefront among recent attempts to information systems development. Models are gradually refined from domain specific descriptions to more concre...
Christian Flender, Thomas Hettel, Michael Lawley, ...
In a distributed multi-agent based software environment, the traditional monolithic user model ceases to exist and is replaced by user model fragments, developed by the various so...
Nonparametric Bayesian models are often based on the assumption that the objects being modeled are exchangeable. While appropriate in some applications (e.g., bag-ofwords models f...
Kurt T. Miller, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jo...
Abstract—Traditional Dijkstra and Bellman-Ford routing algorithms can only provide the best route to each destination based on a fixed link cost model. We propose a utility-base...