In focused XML retrieval, information retrieval systems have to find out which are the most appropriate retrieval units and return only these to the user, avoiding overlapping elem...
Focussed XML component retrieval is one of the most important challenges in the XML IR field. The aim of the focussed retrieval strategy is to find the most exhaustive and specifi...
This paper describes the WebCLEF 2007 task. The task definition—which goes beyond traditional navigational queries and is concerned with undirected information search goals—c...
— Instruments and sensors and their accompanying actuators are essential to the conduct of scientific research. In many cases they provide observations in electronic format and ...
Abstract Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexiti...
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Karl Tuyls, Liviu Panait, Sean ...