This article aims at making iterative optimization practical and usable by speeding up the evaluation of a large range of optimizations. Instead of using a full run to evaluate a s...
Grigori Fursin, Albert Cohen, Michael F. P. O'Boyl...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
In most web sites, web-based applications (such as web portals, emarketplaces, search engines), and in the file systems of personal computers, a wide variety of schemas (such as t...
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini,...
—The “wisdom of the crowds” is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collec...
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...