Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
In recent years, there has been significant interest in development of ranking functions and efficient top-k retrieval algorithms to help users in ad-hoc search and retrieval in da...
Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Heik...
Data dissemination in pervasive environments is often accomplished by on-demand broadcasting. The time critical nature of the data requests plays an important role in scheduling t...
Hyper-heuristics (HHs) are heuristics that work with an arbitrary set of search operators or algorithms and combine these algorithms adaptively to achieve a better performance tha...
Emerging microprocessors offer unprecedented parallel computing capabilities and deeper memory hierarchies, increasing the importance of loop transformations in optimizing compile...