Indexing is often designed with the intent of dimensional reduction, that is, of generating standardised and uniform descriptive metadata. This could be characterised as a process ...
Abstract. The ostensive model assumes that a user’s information need is dynamic and developing, thus, a recently accessed object can be seen as more indicative to the current inf...
In our research work, we consider that access to semi-structured documents is carried out by a data-oriented query. With different users and a same query, the returned results are ...
The problem we address in this paper is the role of context in the interpretation of images when pictures are used as queries. An image usually depicts several objects and is open...
Memetic algorithms usually employ long running times, since local search is performed every time a new solution is generated. Acceleration of a memetic algorithm requires focusing ...