In the intellectual property field two tasks are of high relevance: prior art searching and patent classification. Prior art search is fundamental for many strategic issues such as...
Douglas Teodoro, Julien Gobeill, Emilie Pasche, Di...
Theoretical models for the evaluation of quickly improving search strategies, like limited discrepancy search, are based on specific assumptions regarding the probability that a va...
This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling t...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Jinfeng Hu, Ming Chen...
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...
Models of learning and performing by exploration assume that the semantic distance between task descriptions and screen labels controls in part the usersÕ search strategies. Neve...