The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Two of the attractions of search-based software engineering (SBSE) derive from the nature of the fitness functions used to guide the search. These have proved to be highly robust...
—This paper derives the optimal search time and the optimal search cost that can be achieved in unstructured peer-topeer networks when the demand pattern exhibits clustering (i.e...
We present an application of a multi-agent cooperative search approach to the problem of optimizing gas pipeline operations, i.e. finding control parameters for a gas transmission...
Internet search companies sell advertisement slots based on users' search queries via an auction. While there has been previous work on the auction process and its game-theor...