With the technology advance and the growth of Internet, the information that can be found in this net, as well as the number of users that access to look for specific data is big...
Most real world engineering design optimisation approaches reported in the literature aim to find the best set of solutions using computationally expensive quantitative (QT ) mode...
Exploratory search over a collection often requires users to iteratively apply a variety of strategies, such as searching for more general or more specific concepts in reaction to ...
An on-demand routing protocol for wireless ad hoc networks is one that searches for and attempts to discover a route to some destination node only when a sending node originates a...
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...